Can You Have an Amicable Divorce After a Long Marriage?
It seems like the world has changed since you were young. Instead of thinking about how old that makes you, think about the good old days and how little they differed today. Today, social media is where people go to show their worst side. Everywhere you click, there are people reacting to videos of people reacting to videos of some minor incident that never would have made the news in the days of print journalism. In our day, when people wanted to get famous for being awful human beings, there was trash television. People would go on national television to air their grievances about their family members, neighbors, and exes in the most lurid possible terms. Looking back, what the daytime TV trash talkers and the Tik Tok trash talkers have in common is that they tend to be below the age of 40. We older folks have more decorum. One can hope that the epic divorce battles of people who are young and vain, whose raging hormones get them into and out of marriages quickly, do not repeat themselves when older folks divorce. Unfortunately, gray divorce can be just as ugly as green divorce. The good news is that you can be strategic and spare yourself the worst of the ugliness with the help of a Boca Raton divorce lawyer.
Collaborative Divorce Can Help You Keep Your Divorce Classy
The mid-life crises of protagonists of both sexes make for interesting plots in novels, but your life is not The Bonfire of the Vanities or Eat Pray Love. People over 40 don’t divorce because they get the sudden urge to be single. More often, when people divorce after a long-term marriage, both spouses have wanted to divorce for a long time, but they hesitated because their lives are so intertwined, especially financially. We have all heard the adage about how staying together for the children makes things worse. It is true that young adults can feel as much stress and grief about their parents’ divorce as children and teens can, but from a legal perspective, getting divorced after your children are grown up is simpler. You do not have to draft a parenting plan, and how much or how little financial support either parent gives the couple’s adult children after the divorce is none of the court’s business.
If you and your spouse have been drifting apart for years, you might be able to finalize your divorce on good terms by getting a collaborative divorce. This means hiring lawyers and negotiating on your own or with the help of a mediator until you agree on a property settlement agreement and then filing for an uncontested divorce.
Contact Schwartz | White About Gray Divorce
A South Florida family law attorney can help you get an amicable divorce if you and your spouse have aged gracefully but your marriage has not. Contact Schwartz | White in Boca Raton, Florida about your case.
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