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Handling the emotional turmoil associated with a divorce is difficult enough. It becomes even more difficult if legal complications arise at the same time. It is, therefore, essential to get a divorce attorney for advice to handle the legal aspect. Before you find an attorney for consultation, here is a quick look at the related details.
Residency Requirements that make you eligible for filing any resident of Tennessee may file for divorce if the occurrence of the grounds was in the state. You may also file if you or your spouse was a resident of the state for 6 months prior to filing.
Acceptable grounds for divorce filing two categories exist
Fault-based:
Adultery,
Impotence,
Alcoholism and/or drug addiction,
Felony conviction and imprisonment,
Willful desertion (for minimum 1 year),
Abandonment/neglect/banning the spouse from home,
Indignities that make the spouse's life intolerable,
Endangering the life of the spouse,
Cruel and inhuman treatment/improper and unsafe marital conduct,
Bigamy,
Infamous crime conviction,
Refusal to move in with a spouse and willfully absenting oneself from a new residence (for minimum 2 years),
Wife is pregnant by another at the time of marriage without husband's knowledge
No-fault based:
Living separately (without cohabitation) for a minimum of 2 years
Irreconcilable differences (no denial/combined with any fault-based ground/submitted a marital dissolution agreement)
Consult your Kingsport Divorce Attorney to know the grounds suitable for your case.
Essential documents you need for filing the ones that you need are Petition for Divorce and Final Decree of Divorce. Apart from these, you may also require other documents regarding your marriage, your finances, and so on.
Where do you file when you are a resident of Kingsport you need to file at either the Hawkins or the Sullivan County Court. Ask your legal advisor. Better still, take his/her help for filing this.
The time necessary to get a divorce if you and your spouse are able to work out a settlement, the divorce may be complete within a few weeks. However, this may not be as easy as it sounds. Issues that lead to disputes often concentrate on property distribution, spousal support, and child custody and so on.
The cost associated with the legal proceeding apart from the filing fees and court costs, the cost of hiring an attorney is the one significant expense. Talk to your attorney to know the method, mode and time of payment. If you and your spouse can agree to certain points, it saves both the attorney's time, and your money.
