Recap and Update...Arizona Divorce.
Sorry I was stepped away for an extra day on just giving divorce information and child support info, for most of you that take time to step in and read the divorce information, you know I am always checking in on your divorce and child support questions, and finding the best information I can. I stepped in to look to see if there was any divorce questions yesterday. I found it kind of neat while I sat here to see if I had anyone to help with questions, because it is one of the things I wan to do in life is help others, that I was going to help a friend with her wedding stuff, but I also took time, to give her some well guided information for future, in hopes that she would never get a divorce, the stuff we talked about last week. Just for future importance, is the divorce information I gave her.
Now lets step back in to what this blog is suppose to be about, a recap and update of divorce in Arizona, I have noticed a few of the questions on divorce and child support have been coming from Arizona, so I thought I would recap on Arizona divorce. So lets start, there are 2 types of marriage in Arizona a standard and a covenant marriage, so what's this mean for a divorce, well lets take a look at this, a standard marriage was established before 1998, that is before new laws of marriage and divorce were rewrote, on steps for marriage and steps for divorce, so if you were married before 1998, divorce in Arizona can be a pinch easer, you go with irretrievably broken, now since the marriage and divorce laws have been rewrote its referred to as covenant marriage so now makes divorce a pinch harder, so let me give you the list of what it takes to get a divorce, if you were married after 1998.
1. You must have proof that your spouse committed adultery, then the divorce process may begin.
2. You must have proof in your divorce that your spouse was convicted of a felony. In that now it means your spouse will go to jail or get the death penalty.
3. You must have proof that you were abandoned by your spouse for over one year, and then the divorce process can be started.
4. You must have hard proof of abuse to you or your children for a divorce process to begin.
5. Must have proof of alcohol or drug abuse and that you have tried to help your spouse with no prevail, then the divorce process may begin.
6. A legal separation of 2 years, and the divorce process may begin.
7. When both spouses agree completely in the divorce decision and process.
The laws made it a little harder for divorce then just saying the marriage had been broken. So now in Arizona divorce is referred to as a petition for dissolution of marriage. You must live in Arizona for at least 90 days before you can even file for divorce. The divorce must be filed in the county that both you and your spouse reside in. A divorce can not be granted for at least 60 days after the papers have been delivered to the other spouse. The simple thing is for divorce in Arizona is that if you both agree on everything, the divorce can then be finalized after that 60 day period, if not then a divorce court date will be set.