Divorce

Florida Divorce Law

You must be a resident of Florida to file for divorce, which means you can not move and then file, you must live and file for divorce in Florida.  Although if you are not a resident but are in the armed forces and you are stationed in Florida, you may file for divorce; this does include either spouse, as long as you are stationed in Florida at the time of the divorce.  In Florida a divorce is referred to as dissolution of marriage. You may file in for divorce at any time in Florida, and you can just state that there is irreconcilable differences in the marriage, and that the marriage has come to an end and you would like a divorce, the marriage is broke down and there is no agreement between either spouse.  The marriage is past fixing and has resulted in a divorce.  If there is an agreement on both sides and no arguments then you can just simply put a stipulation, that you can go ahead and divorce, ending the marriage. If either spouse disagrees with the divorce and says the there is no need for a divorce that the marriage can be saved.  If there is kids involved, or there is fighting due to how to split the debt in the divorce, then the courts can order that there needs to be marriage counseling before the divorce process can go into any affect.  In the state of Florida counseling for a divorce does not need to come directly from a marriage/divorce counselor, you may also see a psychiatrist, minister, rabbi or other persons that are experienced in counseling.  Counseling for your divorce in Florida may not come through any family member or person not experienced in counseling for a family.  In any state and with any person a divorce has much affect on the entire family, it is recommended to see some counseling before a divorce takes place, to see if any marriage can be saved.  Although fighting and a marriage breakdown to where people can not live together is better ended in divorce, for a family. In Florida the divorce process does begin when divorce papers are filed and then served to the spouse.  The spouse s given time to respond to the divorce papers, but not for a prolonged amount of time, divorce papers must be responded to in a descent amount of time.  If both parties agree on everything in the divorce papers, the divorce may not even have to go to any kind of a trial; but there must be an agreement on everything including all debt, child support and child custody and visitation in the divorce.  If there is any argument in the divorce papers then the divorce trial will be set for sometime in the near future.

 

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