Divorce Guide

The court process

It is obligatory that you know about the court process before applying to the court. The subsequent court procedure is followed in case of divorce:

The divorce petition: The first and the foremost thing required to file a case is the divorce petition. Petition or the appeal is the first document that you need to present to your partner as well as the court. This contains the grounds on which you are filing the case. This petition can be sent to your partner for final agreement before moving to the court.

Temporary orders: The divorce case proceedings might take a long time. In order to fulfill your financial needs, you or your partner, at any time before the final order, can apply for interim financial order. In this case, the court will temporarily pass an order to ensure financial needs are met. In case, child is involved, the court would consider other things as well. Temporary orders might also contain orders from court that you and your partner need to follow until the final hearing.

Divorce Discovery: In order to find all the information of both the parties, a few steps are followed by the court. These steps may vary from state to state but these steps are common and become a vital part of the divorce process:

Disclosures: The lawyers from both the sides ask for vital information and this information must be transparent. This information should be disclosed within 30 days.

Interrogations: As the name suggest, both the parties are interrogated y the lawyers on opposite sides. These are questions in a written form and must be responded within 30 days.

Admissions of Fact: The lawyers send the ‘list of facts’ to the opposite party and the party receiving the list should admit or deny these facts.

Request for Production: This is a request for the list of financial statements, statement of incomes and capital or any such information which a lawyer thinks would assist his patron.

Deposition: