File Your Own Divorce

A divorce can be the most painful and expensive experience of your life. Whether you use a lawyer or not, protect yourself by getting all the information you need about divorce laws and your legal rights. How to File Your Own Divorce simplifies and thoroughly explains everything you need to know to successfully handle your own divorce. Complete with step-by-step instructions and the forms you need, this book makes filing for divorce inexpensive and hassle-free.

A divorce can be the most painful and expensive experience of your life. Whether you use a lawyer or not, protect yourself by getting all the information you need about divorce laws and your legal rights. Let File Your Own Divorce help you get control over this stressful time of your life. Book jacket.

- Sample divorce forms -- Appearing in court -- After your divorce.

This book will save you money. Even if the divorce is completely straightforward, and there are no arrangements for children and finances to sort out, a solicitor will typically charge between GBP500 and GBP1000 to deal with the divorce for you, not including court fees. If there are arrangements for children or finances to sort out, then the solicitor's fees are likely to be many times that sum. This book is for the increasing number of people who have to go through divorce proceedings without legal assistance, and for those who just want to save legal costs. It includes: *A guide to divorce proceedings, including completing all the required forms. *Sorting out financial/property arrangements, whether by agreement or through the court. *Making arrangements for children. *Details of child support maintenance. *Dealing with domestic violence, costs and mediation. *Plus specimen forms, useful addresses and websites, and a detailed glossary of legal terms. This book is for anyone who is seeking or contemplating a divorce, or anyone whose spouse has issued divorce proceedings against them. Even if you are separating from your spouse and do not wish to divorce at this time, this book will be useful to you as many of the principles with regard to arrangements for children and sorting out finances are the same. Contents: 1. Divorce; 2. Children; 3. Child maintenance; 4. Finances and property; 5. Domestic violence; 6. Mediation; 7. Costs and legal aid; 8. Final thoughts; Appendix 1 - Example Documents; Appendix 2 - Useful Addresses and Websites; Appendix 3 - Glossary; Appendix 4 - List of Divorce County Courts; Index.

This helpful book outlines how to file an uncontested divorce in Oregon -- one in which a couple handles its own divorce and resolves disputes outside the courtroom. With step-by-step instructions and plain-English explanations, this practical guide shows how to: -- sort out financial issues surrounding a divorce -- work out child custody, visitation and support -- use professional mediators -- fill out and file all of the forms Provides all the needed forms as tear-outs.

A complete kit, with everything you'l need, includingworksheets and court forms, practical advice about the important decisions; where to get help when you need it; step-by-step instructions.

This book is a guide to helping you complete your own Divorce Compete with instructions and example documents. 1. How to Make and file a Complaint. 2. How to issue a summons. 3. The answer to the complaint. 4. Setting the Court Date. 5. How to make the Judgment of Divorce. 6. States Codes (listed by states) 7. States Residency requirements (listed by states) 8. State by State Filing Information This book will take you through the five main steps you will take to get your own divorcé. one at a time. It will help you complete the forms. The instructions will help you understand how to make and file all your paper work in your divorce. This book will show you everything you need to know, from start to finish.

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