What if my spouse won’t sign divorce papers?

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If you and your spouse are trying to get a divorce and you present your spouse with a plan to resolve the issues before the court, meaning the division of the assets, the division of the debts, if you have children, what that parenting schedule and plan is going to look like. If your spouse will not agree to that, then the way you will resolve that is by filing your complaint with the court and serving the complaint on your spouse. Once the complaint has been served, you can then tee up a potential trial where

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a court will make decisions about vowing your assets, dividing up your assets and liabilities, making decisions about the parenting schedule, the parenting plan. Before you get to a trial, a judge will require that you go through a mediation process where you try to try to resolve your differences with a third party neutral. And if you can’t get it resolved in mediation, then you will be scheduled for a trial and the judge will make decisions about those items on you and your spouse’s behalf.

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