No Fault Divorce

Everything is split 50/50Massachusetts is an equitable division state. It means that at the time of divorce, judges look to see how to split property equitably.

For example, if you have an uncontested divorce (under Chapter 208, Section 1A), the cost of your divorce will be somewhere between $215 (the approximately filing fee cost, assuming you don't have attorneys) and $4,000. Typically, our firm can complete a relatively simply 1A divorce between $1,500 and $2,500.

Let go of the need to win. Ask yourself what you really want. Focus on the future, not the past. Prepare for emotional triggers. Be mindful of your partner's emotions. Take care of yourself.

Mediation is typically less stressful and less expensive than a divorce trial, and it usually proceeds much faster. Because you and your spouse have the final say over your divorce matters, mediation also allows couples to maintain the power and control in their divorce, as opposed to asking a judge to decide.

Because California law views both spouses as one party rather than two, marital assets and debts are split 50/50 between the couple, unless they can agree on another arrangement.

Mediation is a voluntary process, and cases are resolved by mediation only if both parties agree. If, after reasonable effort, the parties can't solve their dispute through mediation, they still have the right to trial, and the judge will hear and decide the case.

In Massachusetts, a judge will divide marital property equitably (fairly), but not necessarily equally.It doesn't include any separate property, which is all income, property, and assets owned by a spouse before the marriage. Separate property won't be divided between the spouses in a divorce.

Massachusetts law provides three ways to begin a divorce: the joint or uncontested petition, commonly a no-fault 1A divorce. the individual complaint often called a no-fault 1B divorce, or. the individual complaint that states that one spouse caused the divorce.