Alabama Divorce Lawyers

• Researching any alterations in the Alabama judicial marriage law
• Filing all lawsuits pertaining to divorce
• Registering the gross assets to be separated

• Annulment
• Legal Separation
• Spousal support or alimony
• Child support
• Child custody

The lawyer needs the documents listed below to start the process of divorce. It is recommended that the applicant begins collection of these at the earliest date so that it can be determined which are missing and an application can be made regarding the duplicates.

Personal documents

• Complete postal address and phone numbers of husband and wife
• If the couple has any children from their marriage, then the complete name, birth date, postal address, school name and grade of all the children
• If either spouse had a previous marriage, then relevant data about it inclusive of a divorce decree certified copy
• If there are any domestic contracts like a prenuptial agreement, then a copy of it is to be included
• Data regarding any prior legal proceedings between husband and wife and / or including any of their children
• Detailed information about marriage counseling, any prior separations or trials of reconciliation

• A roster of gross assets and liabilities of husband and wife
• Latest pay slip
• The income tax return of the previous year and pertinent information from the IRS

The law in this state accepts the following reasons for divorce.

• Addiction to alcohol or drugs
• Disparate living for 2 years in the absence of support
• Crime against nature
• Abuse of physical sort
• 2 years imprisonment
• At the time of marriage, if the wife was pregnant and the husband had no knowledge regarding such an issue
• Voluntary abandonment for a span of 1 year
• If marriage breaks down to an irretrievable degree
• Adultery
• If either spouse is directed to a mental hospital for a span of 5 years and there is no possibility of recovery
• Incurable physical incapacitation during marriage
• Temperaments of both are totally incompatible

Currently, most of the lawyers in this state are busy in ‘’no-fault” divorces on basis of incompatibility and irretrievable breakdown. As per the statute, these are 2 different grounds, but we often observe that lawyers use these terms interchangeably.

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