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WHY IS DIVORCE SO HARD?
Getting married is easy. Getting divorced is complicated.
At one time, divorce was actually impossible. Then the law changed to allow divorce for adultery, cruelty or desertion, but you had to prove it.
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OUR PHILOSOPHY
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Respect:
Acknowledging that the financial and emotional needs of the divorcing couple are paramount in the process.
Openness:
Facilitating the couple's efforts to communicate and to gather the information required for them to make informed decisions about their divorce
Determination:
Providing guidance, wisdom, and perspective to keep everyone moving toward their goals in the process.
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Today you need only to assert ‘irreconcilable differences.’ But that is the only part of divorce that isn’t complicated.
The Court System
You can only get a divorce from a judge, and the court strictly controls this process. Getting divorced involves a lot of form filling. Then those forms have to be filed with the court. Even more problematic, the legal system is ‘adversarial.’ In every divorce case, there has to be a Petitioner and a Respondent. The system treats the marriage partners as adversaries.
The Emotional and Financial Cost
Whatever the marriage was like, the cost of treating your husband or wife as an adversary in a legal proceeding can be alarmingly high emotionally, and sometimes cripplingly high financially. If there are children, the court will exert strict control over custody, parenting and child support arrangements. And a relationship between the parents will need to continue in some form indefinitely. There has to be a better way than tearing at each other in court at enormous expense, and there is.
A Better Way
Without giving up your rights, and with professional help to navigate the complexity of the divorce process, you can achieve dissolution of your marriage, without adding to the stress and minimizing the expense.
It’s called MEDIATION. It’s available to anyone, and it’s what movie stars and celebrities increasingly use. Their marriages may have been high profile, but they don’t want their divorces to be fought over in a public courtroom.
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