After The Divorce.
Well we have recapped on a lot in the last couple weeks, and again if there is anyone that needs information on certain areas of divorce or child support, please feel free to ask, I can look up what information I have researched. So today I want to recap and go back a bit since I have done a blog on after the divorce is finalized, what do you do, so here is a few things you need to look for when reading over your divorce order and then what you are going to have to do.
1. At this time you must read over your divorce order very carefully, even if you have wanted to, well now is the time. Sit down open it up where nobody can bother you and read over your divorce order carefully. I really can not stress this enough, how important it is to read over your divorce order, let me give you a very important reason why, in my parents divorce order, just picking it up at my dads, laying in a drawer the other day, talking about us kids in the divorce, I realized all of our birth dates were wrong, so this is why you need to sit down, and make sure everything is correct, this is 10 years later, so do not just skim over the top. Make sure to read it beginning to end. Of course you already did this before you signed it, even if you did please read it again, your mind may at that time been fogged up and you, yourself did not read it properly; and do not rely on your divorce lawyer or the judge. Why so? Because you are the one that is going to have to live with everything that is in those divorce papers. So it is important that you understand everything that is in the divorce papers. If you have questions, this is the time to also ask your divorce lawyer. You also may want to make a copy of your divorce order and give it to some one you trust, so that they can take the time to read over it to, sometimes a person that is new with the divorce papers and reading it for the first time, may see things we do not. It also may be too late to bring it up to anybody if you have waited a little longer to read them, but the sooner you can deal with something you may have missed in your divorce order, the sooner you can deal to get it fixed.
2. So the second thing you need to do if you have spotted something that is incorrect or that you had no idea was going to be in your divorce order is to change it if necessary, if there is time, every state is different on how long they allow papers to be fixed or taken back to divorce court, after it has been finalized, before you have to appeal, which is in my next sentence. Most people in a divorce do like to keep the fight going, but after these papers have been signed by the judge it is tough to get things changed. There can be some simple changes that can be made, without an appeal; here are some changes that can most the time be made to your divorce order, without an appeal, the rest of the time unfortunately you are going to have to appeal, another reason I have stressed in the past, for people to read their divorce papers, before they sign.
1. Simple things like typing mistakes within the divorce order can be changed.
2. Provisions, such as a bank account that does not exist. You can not transfer money if the bank account does not exist. So some provisions like that can be changed.
3. In some states, if you have gotten to it quickly and move fast enough, you may be able to change things as property settlements. You can tell them you were under extreme stress and your judgment was impaired. When you finally took time to read over the divorce order, you noticed the mistake. But remember not all states will do this. So the next step is?
4. To Appeal, which can be a costly thing, so again if you are getting a divorce, thinking about a divorce, remember to read those divorce papers before you sign!