A dissolution is the end of a marriage and if there are Children involved, if you have anything of monetary value, personal property, vehicles, or if you are unsure of the due process of law, you’re going to want to hire an attorney for a myriad of reasons.

If You Have Children

If you have children it’s in both your best interest and that of the children, to hire an attorney. An attorney can help to sort out who gets physical custody of the children, who should receive child support and how much, who should take the children to and from school, educational decisions and more.

A do it yourself divorce is very ill-advised if you have children involved. It’s far too easy to overlook an important detail that may affect who gets the children if you are trying to do it yourself. The attorney’s and the judge will want to make sure that the final decision is in the best interest of the child or children.

Division Of Assets

When it comes to dividing assets, some couples are less than truthful about who owns what and what they owned prior to the marriage, or during the marriage. For this reason, having a Lawyer on hand will go far in helping to resolve such differences.

Typically, a judge will award each person his or her personal belongings including what each person in the relationship brought into the relationship. Then, they will have to determine who gets what. If one person paid for everything the judge is going to look at why that person paid for everything and he or she will determine who gets that particular item. There are also other contributing factors that a judge will look at to determine this information.

Lawyers Understand The Process

When a dissolution gets to court, it’s basically a business deal gone bad. For this reason, it’s wise to have a lawyer on hand that understands the due process of law, courtroom verbiage, and the other details that the judge is going to look at. For the couple, this may be a very emotional time, however, the judge, and the lawyers are viewing it more as a failed business deal than the emotional side of things.

The lawyers will help to separate the emotional part of the dissolution and focus on who should get what, and why. They will help the couple to sort through their belongings and monetary items so that the couple can separate and move on with their lives.

Lack Of Experience

Unless the couple is in the courtroom a lot, lawyers themselves, or have other experience in the courts, they likely have a serious lack of experience in dealing with the issues at hand in a courtroom.   A dissolution attorney Columbus Ohio, on the other hand, will have a good understanding of things and be able to focus on what must be done and in what order to ensure that the process goes smoothly.

Divorcing couples, even if they are attorney’s, should never represent themselves. It’s far too easy to let emotion take over and to miss out on things that could have a huge impact on the future such as alimony payments, how long child support should be paid, getting half of the spouse’s pension and so on.

Less Stress

Let’s face it, a divorce is a very stressful time of life for anyone. By hiring an attorney you’re going to be able to relax more and not have to stress over things that must be done. The attorney will take care of the legal aspects and you won’t have to worry about what you need to have signed when you need papers or documents served and so on.

This frees up time for you to spend on your own healing and that of your children’s healing. If you’re working, you’ll spend less time missing work and be far more able to deal with your daily work stress if you hire an attorney.

Stop Costly Delays

For many, it’s just a matter of “let’s get this over with” and moving on with life. However, if you don’t have a clue what you’re doing, you may wind up spending more money to get a divorce and you may wind up taking longer getting things through court than you had intended. Hiring an attorney will help ensure that things are done in a timely fashion and that nothing is left out.

If you do it all yourself, you risk not having some wording correctly worded and losing out on thousands or more. You may also have costly delays due to documents not being done properly and you’ll have to wait to get things signed and done to the court’s satisfaction.

Verbiage

Court documents are required to be in specific verbiage. If they’re not, they may not have all of the proper information. A judge may give out a divorce decree, but something may be left to chance so it’s important to have an attorney at least review the documents and focus on what should and shouldn’t be mentioned in the divorce.

For example, when filing the paperwork, you can’t say “all his belongings” in the original document, and then in the final document itemize the items that are his. This won’t work in a court, so you’ll have to be specific in the first document to ensure that each person gets exactly what is theirs.

Failure to hire an attorney leaves a lot of the fine details of your dissolution to chance. If you don’t mind leaving your money to chance, if you don’t mind leaving your children’s custody to chance, then don’t stress over hiring an attorney, however, if you want to make sure you get what you deserve and the custody of your children, the house, and your fair share of any retirement accounts, you’ll want to hire an attorney to represent you in court. It could save you thousands of dollars and a lot of lost wages as well as reduce your stress.

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