Is an Uncontested Divorce Right for You?

If you and your spouse have already agreed on:

• How to split up your home and other real estate
• How to divide your retirement assets and business interests
• How to divide your debts
• How you will make decisions for your children, and how you will resolve disagreements in making these decisions
• With whom will the children maintain primary residence
• The parenting schedule during the school year, summers, school breaks and holidays
• The amount and duration of child support and spousal support
• Who will claim the Children on his/her tax return
• What type of additional expenses you will share for the Children and how responsibility for these expenses will be divided
• Who will maintain health insurance for the children, will there be health insurance for each of you?
• you may be able to obtain an Uncontested Divorce.

The Process

To begin an Uncontested Divorce, one spouse is designated the Plaintiff and the other the Defendant.  Usually the Plaintiff completes and files most of the paperwork. Click here to read more.

Deficient New York Legislation – Same-Sex Marriage

                                 “It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, 
                                                  but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.” 
                                                              – Theodore Roosevelt

Sometimes new laws are made for the best of reasons, and yet they end up being flawed. Often legislation is passed in a great rush, and it unfortunately has unexpected or unintended consequences. Here is a case in point.

New York State did a wonderful thing 3 years ago when it passed The Marriage Equality Act, which allowed same-sex marriages to take place. The new statute not only applied to New York State residents, but permitted couples from other states to come to New York in order to marry. As a result, many same-sex couples from states where same-sex marriage was not allowed took advantage of this statute and were married in New York. The State of New York welcomed them, collected their filing fees and tourist dollars, and received a lot of kudos from the media. All is wonderful, right?

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