Some Ideas For Reforms
This entry was posted on 5/28/2007 12:38 PM and is filed under uncategorized.
Things they need to change about divorce law.
In the definition of marital and separate property there and the division therefore some provision needs to be made for long separations between the parties. Technically, someone could get married, split up and not see each other for 30 years and then have to divide everything equitably which could mean a 60/40 split even in such an extreme case.
Discovery needs to be strictly enforced. Its no wonder young lawyers aren’t civil being constantly harassed by clients about obviously insufficient discovery that the court won’t do anything about. Having prompt responses being a literal standing joke in the Bar Magazine indicates a clear problem, if its that hard make it 60 days instead of thirty.