Black Forest, CO Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

If you want to ?prepare? for a divorce, there are a number of things that you can do: 1) Sit down and talk to your husband about these issues. You?re married; you have a child together? you ought to be able to discuss your concerns. An alternative would be to request that he go to counseling. The counseling could be to address your marital issues and/or to talk through the issues of having an amicable divorce and coming up with a parenting plan for your 14 year old. 2) Start doing some basic financial planning for yourself. If you do get divorced, where are you going to live? What are your financial needs going to be? I recommend assembling a list of your assets and debts. What is a fair way to divide these? 3) Start working on a parenting plan for your child. If you and your husband separate, what type of plan would best serve your daughter? 4) Start researching your divorce issues: talk to some lawyers, research your issues on the internet. I have sections on my website that address the divorce process, the division of property, and spousal maintenance. 5) Again, talk to your husband. If he is unwilling to share financial information with you, that is a pretty big sign that something is wrong. In general, my experience from working on problems is that when left unaddressed, they tend to get worse and slowly become harder and harder to solve.

When you say "over," do you mean you are ready to get divorced or you are divorced? If you are divorced, then the decree should already have addressed that issue. If you are getting ready to file, it seems to me that the house is community property since your parents apparently gave the house to both of you, not just you. So you each get of the value of the house. Of course, there are a lot of other factors that need to be considered and you should talk with your attorney about them all.