How To File For A Divorce Uncontested Georgia

By Melissa Olson


At some point, we all dream of falling in love, getting married and starting a family. However, no marriage is a bed of roses. It is little wonder that divorce is so common nowadays. It is almost as if people expect in to happen as they write up a prenup beforehand. The article gives several steps to divorce uncontested Georgia.

Some marriages are both by license and by the ceremony. You need to confirm you are legally married. If for example, you signed the papers after the ceremony you will definitely need to file for a divorce. In order to file for a separation in Georgia, you need to have been a resident for at least six months. You will be required to prove it in court by using receipts, drivers license among other things.

It is required that you file the divorce in the county where your ex to be resides. This can only happen if you are in the same state. If your spouse, however, moves to another state, you can file the separation in your own county. It is not necessary that the other person is in the same county. It will, however, be safe to wait for about a month.

You should gather all the information you can for the petition. This part requires very specific information that you may not know where to start. Luckily, there is the legal aid of Georgia. They have made your work so much easier by drawing up a questionnaire that gets all the information needed. Parts that are not necessary can be crossed out.

In marriage, it is common for one of the spouses to take the name of the other. During the separation, you have to agree on whether a name change is necessary or not. They may decide to go back to their original last name, or they may choose to keep that of their current spouse depending on whether the spouse is comfortable or not.

As they say, separation is not cheap. You need a certain fee to file for it. The fee is usually around $200. There are fees for other procedures like document preparation. If your income rate is not that high, you may ask for a waiver or complete termination of the fee. The request may be either accepted or denied by the court.

It is possible that you had children in the existence of the damage. You need to come up with a way of how you both will get time with the children. After agreeing you are to sign and notarize the documents in the presence of a notary. You will sign blue as this is a sign of the originality of the signatures.

The next step is filing the documents at the court house after which you are given a date when you will be heard. After attending the court hearing, you will be given the documents necessary. After that, the whole thing will be finalized, and after a while, you will be officially divorced.




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