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Beginning the Divorce Process with a Morristown Divorce Lawyer

Providing Quality Counsel to Divorce Clients in Morris County Communities such as Morristown, Madison, Randolph, Denville, and across Northern New Jersey.

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So, in order to start a divorce process, you are going to initially contact an attorney. When you contact an attorney the process in our office is that we bring you in for an initial consultation. We sit with you for about an hour and a half. We spend time talking about all of the issues in your divorce, we ask that at that meeting you bring any documents that we could potentially look at in order to help you, some financial information, any prenuptial agreement should you have and anything that can really help the attorney ascertain what the major issues are in your divorce.

Once we do that, we will talk about a plan; we come up with a detailed plan for how we want the case to progress and we try to stick to that plan. That plan is based on what your goals are for the resolution of your divorce and in order to initiate a divorce in the state of New Jersey, the first filing that you have to make is a complaint about divorce which is filed in the county in which you reside and it is a document that you submit to the court with your reasons that you are seeking a divorce and all of the relief that you are asking for the court to grant you ultimately in your divorce.

For an individual or couple to schedule a court hearing, file for divorce, or enter a final judgment, some states do have defined minimum amounts of time before the court will allow the case to proceed. These defined waiting periods can range from zero to 90 days.

New Jersey does not have a defined waiting period to file. It does, however, have rules and requirements related to grounds for the divorce:

If you are interested in filing for a divorce based on the grounds of irreconcilable differences, the State of New Jersey requires you to exhibit the breakdown of the marriage for a period of at least 6 months.
If an individual needs to file a claim on the grounds of desertion, there is a burden of proof on the individual filing to demonstrate that their spouse has been out of the picture for at least one year.
At least one spouse must be a New Jersey resident for at least 12 consecutive months before filing for divorce.

At Jacobs Berger, our divorce and family law attorneys understand that no two divorces are alike. For some couples, coming to a quick, inexpensive, and amicable agreement outside of court is the best way to go. For others, a long process of litigation may be the best solution to find an equitable and final decision for their divorce disputes. We take pride in offering individualized solutions to fit all our clients’ needs and concerns in Morris County communities such as Morristown, Madison, Randolph, Denville, East Hanover, Florham Park, Dover, Rockaway, and across Northern New Jersey.

Contact us online or call our Morristown offices by dialing (973) 718-7705 today for a confidential and comprehensive case assessment regarding your divorce proceedings.