What’s the difference between contested and uncontested divorce? – Patterson Bray PLLC

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00:00:03 difference between a contested and an uncontested divorce in Tennessee is two things. One, traditionally an uncontested divorce is where neither of you are contesting the grounds. And so you go through what we call an irreconcilable differences divorce process where the two of you do not contest that you’re entitled to a divorce. rather you’re both agreeing that one of you or both of you is entitled to a divorce and so you’re not contesting the fact that the court can award a divorce. Sometimes parties come

00:00:38 to lawyers and say we agree that we are entitled to a divorce from one another. However, we do not have an agreement on how we’re going to divide up our assets, how we’re going to divide up our liabilities, who’s going to pay child support and how much, what, if any form of alimony is going to be paid and how much and for how long. Those are the things that people can test. And so, while they may not dispute that one party’s entitled to a divorce, they dispute how they’re going to resolve those issues once they are divorced.

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