Jackson, MI Divorce Law Firms & Lawyers

Your legal name is your married name, unless you never used that name. If you change the name, then you can use it. You get your maiden name back in the divorce without the name change process.

You can file a complaint for divorce based on irreconcilable differences and/or separation. Pleading a cause of action for divorce based on irreconcilable differences requires the following: Irreconcilable differences which have caused the breakdown of the marriage for a period of six months and which make it appear that the marriage should be dissolved and that there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation. Pleading a cause of action for divorce based on separation requires the following: Separation, provided that the husband and wife have lived separate and apart in different habitations for a period of at least eighteen or more consecutive months, and there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation provided further that after the eighteen month period there shall be a presumption that there is no reasonable prospect of reconciliation. Once you file the complaint for divorce in the county in which you reside, you must wait to receive a stamped, filed copy back from the Court. Once you receive a stamped, filed copy back from the Court, you can then hire a process server to serve your spouse with the summons and complaint. You may elect not to hire a process server, as long as the person serving the complaint is an uninterested party, i.e. One not having an interest in the litigation. Once your husband is served with the complaint for divorce, he has 35 days within which to file an answer and/or counterclaim.