Divorce questions..

[dustbucket40]

What is the name of your state? Florida

My husband and I after three yrs of marriage, have decided to divorce. We've mutually agreed that this is for the best. We have a 4 yr old son and have agreed to rotate visitation, and to let the courts decide who will have him when and if any child support should be decided. I have only worked periodically throughout our marriage as I stayed home most of the time with my children (we have 3 total, 2 from previous relationships), and going back to work is not an issue, we bought a house in 2004, that was paid for solely by him, I do not want the house nor do I want a forced sale, he can have it. So my question is if we reach an agreement can we just write it up as far as assests and liabilities go and leave it at that or do we still need to fill out all the financial paperwork. Also currently we still reside together, we can be and are civil to each other (there isn't anything to fight about, this is something we agree on) and have agreed to live together until everything is final for our children. So how if needed would we go about filling out the financial paperwork, this as far as I'm concerned is quite a simple divorce, yet they said we cannot use the simplified dissoultion of marriage forms because we have a child together.

[LdiJ]

Originally Posted by dustbucket40

What is the name of your state? Florida

My husband and I after three yrs of marriage, have decided to divorce. We've mutually agreed that this is for the best. We have a 4 yr old son and have agreed to rotate visitation, and to let the courts decide who will have him when and if any child support should be decided. I have only worked periodically throughout our marriage as I stayed home most of the time with my children (we have 3 total, 2 from previous relationships), and going back to work is not an issue, we bought a house in 2004, that was paid for solely by him, I do not want the house nor do I want a forced sale, he can have it. So my question is if we reach an agreement can we just write it up as far as assests and liabilities go and leave it at that or do we still need to fill out all the financial paperwork. Also currently we still reside together, we can be and are civil to each other (there isn't anything to fight about, this is something we agree on) and have agreed to live together until everything is final for our children. So how if needed would we go about filling out the financial paperwork, this as far as I'm concerned is quite a simple divorce, yet they said we cannot use the simplified dissoultion of marriage forms because we have a child together.

You are entitled to 50% of the equity in the house. If you want to give that up you are free to do so....however, make sure that he also keeps a proportional share of any marital debt.

You are asking the court to decide custody and child support issues, and that will probably end up being expensive for both of you. If you can mediate an agreement everyone would probably end up better off....including your child.

[Gracie3787]

Originally Posted by dustbucket40

So my question is if we reach an agreement can we just write it up as far as assests and liabilities go and leave it at that or do we still need to fill out all the financial paperwork. Also currently we still reside together, we can be and are civil to each other (there isn't anything to fight about, this is something we agree on) and have agreed to live together until everything is final for our children. So how if needed would we go about filling out the financial paperwork, this as far as I'm concerned is quite a simple divorce, yet they said we cannot use the simplified dissoultion of marriage forms because we have a child together.

Florida law requires every party to file a financial affidavit, and other related papers. You can find all of the forms at [url]www.flcourts.org[/url] click on family law forms. The instructions are pretty easy to understand.