What is generally involved in terminating a marriage?
The substantive issues that have to be addresses all relate to the following issues: The determination of marital property (assets and debt) and the division of that property. This may includes the determination of whether there is separate property of one or both spouses. The appropriateness of spousal support in terms of both amount and duration. All issues relating to any child who has not yet graduated from high school, which include but are not limited to custody, shared parenting, support, parenting time (formerly known as visitation), and health insurance. All these matters can be agreed upon, in which event the case may proceed as a dissolution or uncontested divorce. If the parties do not reach an agreement on these matters, (presumably after efforts to reach an agreement have failed), the case must be filed as a contested divorce action.
