After you have filed your case, the next step is the Discovery Phase—the process of gathering information about what you know, what your spouse knows, and what third parties may know about your case. Discovery reaches not only financial information but any information necessary to your case.  

After more than 20 years of being a practicing attorney focused primarily on family law, I would like to share some important insights about the divorce process.

If you have made the very difficult decision to end your marriage and seek a divorce, you probably have questions about the divorce process. You might be confused about what you have to do to file for divorce, what happens once you file, and what you can expect as the case progresses.

A dissolution of marriage action is typically divided into a number of phases, and each phase is a process that you must work through to get to the end result—a divorce.