How long does a divorce take in Tennessee?

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How long it takes to get a divorce in Tennessee really depends on a number of factors. If you agree on everything before the court and sign a marital dissolution agreement and a parenting plan order and you have an uncontested, irreconcilable differences divorce without children, the shortest a divorce can be in Tennessee is at least 60 days. There’s a statutory waiting period. If you have children, that’s a 90-day statutory waiting period. Those are the shortest divorces you can get.

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If it is a complex divorce with a large amount of assets that require valuation, where we are getting expert appraisers to value the assets of the divorce, and you and your spouse are arguing about how your estate should be divided, couple that with disputes over custody and the residential parenting schedule and child support.

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A divorce could last for years if you two cannot agree on how to resolve your differences. And the reason why it can take years is that when parties cannot agree on those issues or some of the issues, then we have to do discovery to find out what is your opinion of those issues.

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assets, what do you think should be part of the marital estate, not part of the marital estate? How should those be valued? How should they be divided? What residential parenting schedule should you have for your children? Who should be in charge of making major decisions?

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We have to figure out what are the facts involved, what are the opinions involved. If you have experts brought into the divorce case to appraise or value the assets, we have to find out those experts’ opinions as well. And so going through the logistics of litigation can take time, whether it’s a divorce or other litigation, and we have to work through the lawyer’s schedules to get to a trial date.

 

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