Information on California Divorce Law.
California Divorce.
California divorce, well one of the major laws with California divorce law is the fact you must live in the COUNTY for 6 months before filing for divorce. Now here is where it gets tricky. Even if you have lived in the county for 6 months and decide to move before you divorce. You must live in that county for 6 months. So here is one of the times if you are wanting to divorce, you divorce before you plan on a huge move, that is if your going to a different county. That seems to be one of the biggest issues when living in California for divorce.
Now he only grounds for divorce in California are irreconcilable differences. If there is major cruelty or divorce in your marriage and you feel your spouse needs to answer to those you will have to bring up a separate lawsuit for them. In California, things such as adultery, abandonment, cruelty and abuse, drug and drinking problems, have to be listed as irreconcilable differences that caused the break down of the marriage,for the divorce to happen. They do not allow a bashing of who did this or that in the divorce papers. California does try to make the divorce process clean and quick. Even though counseling is always suggested. Especially if there are children are involved or if there are issues that you need to move past to help you step out into life stronger.
The divorce process begins when one spouse files for divorce and the other spouse is then served with the divorce papers and given a reasonable amount of time to respond. In California the divorce and the process is referred to as the petition for dissolution of marriage. The divorce process can go very quickly if everyone is in agreement, which in most cases there tends to be a disagreement over some things dealing with child support and child custody, or the debt and property division in the divorce. If the spouses can not come to some sort of decision and agreement on these then the divorce will have to have to go to the divorce court for the courts to decide. It makes it so much easier if spouses can decide out of court what each one wants in the divorce, but it does not always work out that way.