picture bookends on one bookend is the

filing of the petition and the other

bookend is the entry of the divorce

judgment and then what you have in

between is one the discovery process

which is the Gathering of mostly

documents but other information such as

obtaining

appraisals uh we occasionally take

depositions and once the discovery

process is done then we go into the

settlement mode that almost always

entails a mediation a mediation is the

meeting between the lawyers the clients

and a neutral and we try to craft the

settlement through the

mediation uh if the mediation fails then

we’ll proceed to a trial where the

parties will present the issues uh and

the judge will decide those issues that

are in dispute and then you’ll get your

judgment