Divorce

People have many questions about divorce, what it involves, how to proceed with a divorce and so on. A divorce is a legal action between married people to terminate their marriage relationship. It can be referred to as dissolution of marriage and is basically, the legal action that ends the marriage before the death of either spouse.

The purpose of a divorce is to terminate the parties' marriage. In order to do that the parties and the court must decide how to handle the questions of custody and placement of the minor children and how to divide the property and debts of the parties. State laws presume each party is entitled to one half of the marital property and each party is responsible for one half of the marital debts. Non-marital property would be property inherited by one of the parties or given to just one of the parties by a third person and, if it has been kept separate it will remain with that person after the divorce.