Uncontested Divorce

UNCONTESTED DIVORCE

An uncontested divorce is a divorce that is settled out of court, or without a "contest", meaning a court battle. Given the nature of all divorce proceedings, specifically the division of the assets that the two parties already own and the decisions regarding the future care of their children, an uncontested divorce is virtually always the wiser course of action.

A contested divorce is one in which the parties use the assets that they are dividing, meaning they drastically reduce those assets by giving them to attorneys and expert witnesses, because they cannot agree on the terms of the division.

Unfortunately, many divorcing couples do not realize that they are losing much more than they are fighting for, simply by fighting. In other words, a couple could disagree about who should receive a larger portion of assets or whether alimony should be paid, or how much alimony should be paid, etc., etc. But when you sit down and add up the actual dollar amount that the couple is fighting over, it very frequently is much less than the amount they are spending to fight for it. So they will both get less than if they had settled their case regardless of who wins any particular argument.

To put the cherry on top of this infuriating situation, after you have spent a large amount of what you are fighting for by paying people who have expertise in the area, before you actually get to a trial, the judge will probably force you to try to settle the issues between yourselves with the help of a mediator. The judge and/or the mediator will then tell you that you probably know more about the value of your assets and the best way to deal with your own children than anyone else, so they will strongly suggest saving the even larger cost of having a trial by settling your case, and they will warn you that the decision of the judge is most often not satisfactory to either party.

Almost everyone heeds this advice and finds a way to settle the issues before actually going to trial. Those that spend time fighting their way up to a trial date (which could take anywhere from one to three years) will have discovered that after all of the pain, expense and emotionally devastation of the process, they are basically stuck sitting down and working out the issues themselves, across a conference table.

CompleteCase.com™ provides the information that you need to settle your case. As you look at each question, the law is explained in simple terms so that you can avoid arguments that are simply based on misunderstanding the law. Once you finish answering the questions online, our system will complete all of the forms for you, with your information, so that you can print your professional appearing, completely personalized documents right from your own printer and then file them with the court. It usually takes about 45 minutes and it costs $249. Or, you can spend anywhere from ten to fifty thousand dollars each, battle with each other for a year or two, and then sit down and settle your case anyway.