If you are facing a divorce, it is critically important to get sound legal advice and a dedicated divorce lawyer on your side as early in the process as possible. This is true even if you predict that the divorce will be relatively straightforward. Even when both spouses agree that a divorce is in everyone's best interests, it is not always easy to think about future needs when making arrangements to end a marriage.
That is one of the roles that your Westport divorce attorney plays: to describe all your legal options in terms of ending the marriage, providing for any children and dividing marital property and debt, and then to help you choose the options that are in the best interests of you and any children. Contact our Connecticut law firm for a consultation regarding your family law concerns.
In Connecticut, there is a 90-day waiting period after the summons and complaint
are served before anyone can be divorced. If, however, you and your spouse disagree
about any of the issues involved in the divorce — including the issue of whether
to divorce at all — then the divorce may take a lot longer, especially if either
you or your spouse are prepared to fight all the way to a trial in front of a judge....
In Connecticut, one spouse cannot prevent the other from getting a divorce. Connecticut
is a "no fault" divorce state, which means that a spouse needs only to claim that
the marriage has irretrievably broken down in order for the court to grant a divorce...
In Connecticut, there is a 90-day waiting period after the summons and complaint are served before anyone can be divorced.
In some divorces, the division of property can be handled with a pad of paper and a pencil. In other instances, property division may require a forensic accountant to untangle what has been woven together over time...
