dra954 Posted September 12, 2011 Posted September 12, 2011 I have some questions about divorce in the state of Georgia. Husband wants the divorce but wants me to do all of the work.. We have 2 children and we don't want to get attorney or lawyers involved. Is there any way to have an uncontested divorce? We don't own a home or anything and we plan on settling everything between the two of us. I just am not sure if we would be able to do the uncontested divorce since we have to do the visitation, child support stuff. Any info. on how to get the process started would be great. Thanks!
Taylor1974 Posted September 14, 2011 Posted September 14, 2011 I had a similar situation. Yes, you can have an uncontested divorce. Eveything needs to be laid out specifically as far as the children (in detail) in the settlement agreement.
Trimmer Posted September 14, 2011 Posted September 14, 2011 (edited) I don't know about your state specifically; you'll have to do some research. But here's what we did in our state - we both saw separate lawyers initially for consultations and to learn about just what our options and obligations were in this state. I explained to my attorney what we were doing, that I wanted his guidance as input for my process, that I wanted him to review documents that I was going to draw up, to tell me how to file them, whether I had everything I needed, to coach me a little on going downtown by myself to do a pro se appearance in court to finalize everything, and so on. It was well worth paying for a few hours of consultation. Our lawyers never "advocated" or argued (or even spoke to each other at all); they were just our behind-the-scenes advisors, but with a pretty small amount of consultation time, my guy definitely helped me get everything in order, gave me confidence that I was doing it right, that I had all my "t's crossed and i's dotted" and so on. I probably spent 2.5 to 3 hours of his time total, but I did all the work myself to draw up the documents (using downloaded boilerplate from the county court website), file them with the court, do the appearance before the judge required in our state to get the final decree entered, and so on. Now, this all worked because we had already pretty much come to a comfortable agreement about splitting up our property, our parenting plan, and so on. The documents just officially spelled out the agreements we had already executed, really. There were no contentious issues, and while I was technically the petitioner and my ex was the respondent, we didn't have papers "served", because she "joined" all petitions and filings, which means she added her signatures willingly before I filed the papers, since we had agreed to all the details already. So I consider the few hundred dollars for the attorney to be money well spent, not because I wanted or needed a bulldog to argue or fight, but because I made good use of him as my guide through the legal part of the process, and to help me get each piece of it right the first time through. Edited September 14, 2011 by Trimmer
Author dra954 Posted September 14, 2011 Author Posted September 14, 2011 Thanks everyone. I don't really want to spend the money on an attorney because my husband and I agree on everything. After a lot of searching, I found a new thing GA has that allows you to file online, you just fill everything out. It's pretty simple so I'm hoping it won't be a long process like I originally thought!
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