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people
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won’t have to make a decision whether or
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not they’re going to divorce
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and i don’t think people come to that
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lightly but that would be step one
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and then it starts off with a filing
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generally a petition for dissolution of
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marriage
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and then that petition for dissolution
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of marriage is is delivered in some
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fashion
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either formally or informally to the
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spouse to inform them that
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a divorce is pending and then if you’re
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on the other side of that
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and somebody comes in and they’ve
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received this petition for dissolution
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of marriage
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our process at that point is to file an
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answer
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and an appearance and so that’s the the
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beginning of the divorce
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and those documents and that process is
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fairly generic
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after that’s done the parties then move
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on to
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an exchanging of information called a
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discovery process
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and that’s where people at least
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initially do a financial affidavit with
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some attachments with bank statements
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and that gives everybody a sense of what
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exists for the financial estate
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if there’s children involved many times
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we have to find out early on in the case
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whether or not there’s going to be an
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agreement as to how parenting is going
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to occur
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what parenting time is going to look
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like where children is going to reside
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who they’re going to visit with and if
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that’s not resolvable
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by agreement then we move them into a
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mediation
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and the parties go through mediation
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with regards to you know
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can they figure it out with help of a
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third party to figure out how they’re
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gonna parent their children or their
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child
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after they divorce and then if they
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cannot resolve it in mediation it moves
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on to
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the court and the court likes to appoint
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a guardian
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item or a child’s representative that’s
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a third party attorney
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that individual then does an
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investigation
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helps the parties again try to resolve
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it by between themselves
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if they can’t then they report to the
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court and then ultimately the court
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decides what happens to the children and
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along that process
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running in tandem is the financial
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aspect of the divorce
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the parties are negotiating through
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their attorneys trying to settle and
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resolve
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the financial issues in that time frame
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if the parties are unable to do that
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then again it gets presented to a court
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and the court makes that decision for
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them