Verified Complaint Form For Divorce In Maricopa
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Although signing facilitates and expedites the proceedings, both parties do not need to sign divorce papers to get officially divorced. Refusing to sign divorce papers may prolong the process, but it will not change the outcome.
In the US you generally don't need consent to get a divorce. If one person refuses to cooperate, the judge will order them to. If they still refuse, the judge could find them in contempt, or they could order the divorce granted based on the information provided by the plaintiff.
Under ARS 25-312, only one party is necessary to assert that a marriage is irretrievably broken for a judge to approve a divorce. The judge decides when the divorce is final, meaning if one party refuses to sign, it will not change the final result.
If the marriage includes no children and few assets, if you have lived in Arizona for at least 90 days, and if you believe your marriage is irretrievably broken, an uncontested divorce in Arizona may be granted in as little as 60 days (although this is rare).
Ing to a 2019 survey conducted by Martindale-Nolo Research, contested divorces take at least 18 months to finalize in California.
Read the complaint and decide what to do. Read the complaint. You may agree with some, all, or none of the complaint. Write down next to each paragraph in the complaint whether you agree or disagree with what that paragraph says. If you agree with everything your spouse is asking for, you may not need to file anything.
A Complaint for Divorce or Filing for Divorce is the formalized process of filing paperwork such that legal and factual issues maybe set forth and later addressed at trial, if necessary.
Response Timeframe: In Arizona, the respondent has 20 days to respond if they are served within the state and 30 days if served outside the state. Failure to Respond: If the respondent does not respond within the given timeframe, the petitioner can apply for a default judgment.
All case records are open to the public except as may be closed by law or as set forth in Rule 123, Arizona Rules of Supreme Court. Records deemed closed, sealed or confidential may not be subject to review or reproduction. Please see the Rule 123, which governs public access to court records.
You can request a copy of your divorce decree by going to the court clerk's office or courthouse. In some cases, you can receive a copy from the county clerk's office; however, this depends on your state of residence.
