No Parenting Time vs. Termination of Parental Rights Sole Legal Decision Making (fka Custody) with no parenting time to the other parent gives one parent complete physical and legal rights to a child. If one parent has sole Legal Decision Making (fka Custody) for both physical and legal purposes, that parent will be the [...]
Divorcing With Children in Arizona Preparing for a divorce is stressful enough, but when you have children to consider, the process can feel overwhelming. Getting a divorce in Arizona is known as obtaining a dissolution of marriage and requires filing with the state courts to legally end your marriage. This will allow both of you [...]
Tucson, Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona Divorce and Property Settlement Agreements When you are going through a divorce, there are a number of elements that can cause disagreements and result in added frustration for both sides. One of the areas that often causes the most arguments in a divorce is how to divide property. However, [...]
Divorce filing in Arizona, a Guy’s Perspective Guys, divorces don’t have to be complicated or an expensive exercise in futility. In many instances, a divorce can involve the preparation and filing of paperwork with the help of a certified legal document preparer, which can save them both money. These are some of the general guidelines [...]
Options for Changing Your Marriage Status ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE Navigating your options for changing your marriage status is never easy. In this post, we cover the basic components of annulment, legal separation, or divorce for couples seeking to better understand their options. Annulment is the legal finding that a marriage was never valid from the [...]
Establishing Child Support, Parenting Time and Legal Decision Making; Everything You Need to Know Establishing Child Support can be accomplished so long as Paternity has already been established or you will establish Paternity in the same Petition. Establishing paternity means that a court or a government agency has ruled as to who is a child’s [...]
Establishing and Securing Spousal Maintenance Spousal Maintenance is financial support for one spouse paid by the other spouse in a divorce or legal separation. Sometimes, during or after a divorce, one spouse may need financial help from the other spouse. There are various reasons why this may be as all circumstances are different. In this [...]
Defining and Dividing Community Property in a Divorce Community property is any property acquired by either spouse while married whether acquired jointly or separately. The distinction lies with the timing of the acquisition of the property and not necessarily that it was acquired with both names on the title or separate names on the title. [...]
Divorce and Name Changes Often, one or both spouses will want to change their name as part of the divorce process. If a spouse is returning to the name she or he used prior to the marriage (sometimes called a “maiden name”), the name change can be included as part of the divorce process. Other [...]
Filing for Divorce When Your Spouse is Not in Arizona Arizona Revised Statute 25-312 says that as long one spouse has been an Arizona resident for 90 days, you can file a Petition for Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce) in Arizona, regardless of where you were married. It is not necessary for your spouse to [...]
