What to Know About An Uncontested Divorce

As an experienced Buffalo, NY Divorce Attorney, I handle uncontested divorce cases quite often. An uncontested divorce can be one of the least costly ways of proceeding forward in your situation. An uncontested divorce is where the parties communicate with one another, determine how it is that they intend to divide their assets, decide how the house is going to be taken care of, whether it will be divided between the two of them, or if one party is going to assume the mortgage. It also determines payoffs to the other party as far as the equity’s in the house, dividing your personal property, and deciding on custody and access as far as children’s are concerned. Those terms, if the parties can agree upon them, can be incorporated into a written agreement, which can then later be incorporated into a judgment of the divorce, or shortly after it’s signed incorporated into the judgment of the divorce. It is definitely the least costly way and quite frankly, the way that prevents parties from having to go through a lot of emotional turmoil.