Does the court always decide the issues in a divorce or can the parties reach a resolution between themselves?
The court generally encourages parties to try to resolve the issues themselves, which provides them with more control over the outcome of their divorce. If the parties reach agreement, it is then formatted into a standard agreement acceptable to the court and becomes part of the Final Divorce Decree. Q: What are the issues that need to be addressed in a Final Divorce Decree? A: There are about twenty different issues, more or less depending upon the case. These issues include grounds for divorce, custody, child support, alimony, and division of property (for example, real estate, financial accounts, investments, retirement plans and accounts, vehicles, and furniture).
The court will always be happy if the family decides all these issues on their own. But usually a divorce lawyer is hired in cases where the parties can not resolve issues on their own. Most often these are issues of child custody and division of property and assets after divorce(real estate, business, cards, financial accounts, investments, retirement plans and accounts, vehicles, and furniture).
For example, my friend Jessica hired this divorce attorney in Cook County to handle the division of property. Since her ex-husband wanted to grab most of it for himself.
