When getting divorced, always consider: Child Maintenance, Child Custody, Parenting Plans, Assets and your Legal Options
1. Divorce – your legal options
Divorce can be a costly affair, leaving a burning hole in your pocket. However, with the right legal expert on board, this needn’t be the case. If you cannot afford legal services, research the law and fight for your case.
2. Assets and Divorce
We often find that two people who wish to get a divorce sometimes fail to understand how their assets are divided in a divorce. At this point, the most important part is ensuring that you get what you deserve in your divorce.
This phenomenon can be stressful on the partner who is the bigger income earner, or particularly the partner who owns shares and property. Most of the time, he/she want to know if their spouse can claim accrual in the event of a divorce.
Our legal expert therefore urges you to have an Ante – Nuptial Contract (ANC) in place which can protect your assets in the case of a divorce.
3. Having a parenting plan in place
A parenting plan is an agreement between the two parents that establishes a common ground regarding visitation rights for their children. The agreement should, however, reflect the child’s best interest.
Regarding drafting your parenting plan, we can tailor it to suit the unique circumstances in a way that benefits both parties. The aim when drafting a parenting plan is to ensure that the children gets maximum benefit from both parents so that they don’t feel lost in the process of a divorce.
Let’s face it, divorce is as hard as it is and even more so when children are involved. The last thing you’d want is to have them suffering in the process.
4. Child Maintenance
A divorce is always challenging. However, a divorce involving children becomes even tougher due to the myriad of factors involved, which opens a whole new can of worms for other legal issues. Child Maintenance and Child Custody can complicate and drag the whole process, unfortunately.
It is therefore imperative to know the law in this regard. Start your research today.
5. What are my legal options?
The best divorces are those that are either unopposed or undefended. This type of divorce entails both parties agreeing to the terms of the divorce. It is cheaper, quicker and less stressful.
If the latter divorce is not possible, seek legal advice as soon as possible. If you cannot afford it, do proper research on how to deal with your divorce.
