Sentences with phrase «ask for a legal separation»

Ask for the legal separation packet, which will contain all the forms you need to file.

You have to ask for a legal separation by filling in a form and sending it to your local court.

Not exact matches

Once legally separated for six months, either party may ask the court to convert the legal separation to a dissolution of the marriage.

Marla Gilsig: «People contact me by phone and email 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, asking for legal advice about separation and divorce.

However, you may be brought up short if the other side files a FLA action for dissolution or legal separation, and then asks the family court to exercise jurisdiction over the jointly titled assets acquired before marriage.

Less often, a husband and wife will ask an Ohio Court of Common Pleas for a legal separation, leaving their marriage in a holding pattern while proceeding to decide issues involving finances, child custody, visitation and support.

Clients often ask me that question, and the answer is no — this is why there's no filing for legal separation in NJ.