Help, From a lawyer.........

[Speed6]

Best advice as stated is to stay calm...and get a good lawyer, unless you can work it out an agreements with her..and still have a lawyer you hired review any decree. If you have kids the better your relationship is with her the better for them and everyone.. That means sucking up some hard crap and letting **** slide that will only escalate things and not benefit whats best for you.."fake it till you make it" if need be in being nice....keep emotion outside of your decisions and stay strategically minded.

 

[johns0902]

we don't have any kids together, this will be her 4th divorce, and my second. my first divorce was uncontested, and we just split up, it was really pretty easy. this one is going to get ugly. I am trying to take slow deep breathes, but I have to force it.

 

[jcountry]

the paper says it is expedited because she has no where to live.

I don't think that matters.

I can't imagine any judge denying a continuance.

 

[Shovelhead]

Borrowed ......http://bit.ly/1kuag03

 

[mirage243]

I just want somebody I can call and ask 3 questions......

1-How much will it cost?
2-What kind of gun will be used?
3-Where will you bury her?

. . . . . . .lmao

 

[Echo 1]

she is with a friend now, but the paperwork says she wants to move back in the house and have me pay all the bills for her till she gets ready to leave she says she cant work because she is sick.

If she isn't handi cap or disable in any way **** her ain't no free rides in this world!

 

[jcountry]

Get the best attorney you can afford. Get all of your personal items that belong to you out of the house and lock them up in storage or with a friend. The rest depends on your situation. I had a buddy who was separated and he placed everything he had in his father's name. When she filed for divorce she couldn't get much because she wasn't married to his father.
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I wouldn't advise this. If I were a judge, I would get mighty pissed off about that sort of thing.

My understanding is that assets are split based on what stuff was acquired while the couple was married. Before and after are irrelevant, but my understanding is that she pretty much gets half of whatever was accumulated during the marriage. Income, retirement, real estate, etc. I think that woman either had a moron for a lawyer, or maybe she didn't have one. Any half ass lawyer would burn his ass for playing games like that.

In other words, your buddy still owes her the cash value of all that stuff. (Or he possibly was not being truthful with you.) I really don't think that strategy would be effective in any way.

Anyhow-just my two cents. I have no experience in this area, (And I am no lawyer) but I certainly would get some advice from a good lawyer before I transferred anything into anyone else's name. Seems like something which could have big negative implications with most judges.

 

[Badger]

Get out your local phone directory...many attorney's list their home or cell phone in the residential section.
Find em in the yellow pages then go to residential.

That's your best shot on a weekend aside from checking with friends to see if they know any..

 

[johns0902]

OK guys, so I called and left voice mails at 25 places, and the first guy just called me back. he said the same thing you guys said " CALM DOWN ", he does this for a living and said we can get a continuance. it seems like a dirty trick to tell some guy he is getting divorced on a Friday night, and then he is getting kicked out of his house 60 hours later. I know how rough lawyers can be, but sheesh.....

 

[hoochfisher]

No divorce experience, but some with court and continuances.

You being served at the last possible moment is a game crappy lawyers with not much of case to begin with play.

Of course you must go to court. Explain to the judge you were only served Saturday evening. An not given time to find representation. And ask for a continuance. If you have a way to prove it, it will be much easier. Sometimes the deputies that serve the paper will put a date and time served on the papers served, sometimes they only put it in their reports. If the later is the case, look for the deputies name and go get his report.

As for you saying its being expedited due to her havig no where to stay, hopefully you had not told her to leave. Because this is very easy to argue against. "Well, your honor, I do feel bad she has no where to stay right now, but she left on her own free will knowing this would be the case before hand." See what I'm saying? And of course this will be much easier for you to argue if she states to a judge she left by choice before you argue this point.

And playing games and hiding your stuff will just piss her off and give her ammo in court. Leave your stuff the way it is. It will make you look petty to a judge and this isn't how you want to be presented. It's just stuff anyway, let it go. If you can do that, the judge will see that. And she will be the one that pisses the judge off going for every penny she can. Plus, if she can prove you've transferred things and hidden them after proceedings began, I don't think it'd be a stretch for a judge to seize those items and distribute them as he sees fit.