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Georgia Divorce Process | Atlanta Family Law

Scott Shaw | 621 Views | 10/22/2015

Filing for Divorce

The process for filing a divorce is, at least with our firm, we issue a divorce questionnaire to you which is about 26 pages. But don’t worry about it, it’s not as hard as it seems. What we try to do is get an idea of what the marital state and now marital state is. And we also get personal information.

Divorce Complaint

From there we draft up a divorce complaint. The divorce complaint is drafted, and we usually email it to you, because there is a page at the end of the divorce complaint called the verification page, that the client needs to execute and then return the original to us.

Once we have that back, then we file with a clerk at court. The case will be filed in one of two places, either in the county where the other party lives, or if the other party lived in a marital home within the past six months, the county where the marital home is. So the case will be filed in one of those two counties. Then the case will either be put off for sheriff service, service per by the process server, or we will ask the other party to voluntarily acknowledge service, which is the friendly way to do it. But that doesn’t work in every case.

By: Scott Shaw

Georgia Divorce Process | Atlanta Family Law

Filing for Divorce

The process for filing a divorce is, at least with our firm, we issue a divorce questionnaire to you which is about 26 pages. But don’t worry about it, it’s not as hard as it seems. What we try to do is get an idea of what the marital state and now marital state is. And we also get personal information.

Divorce Complaint

From there we draft up a divorce complaint. The divorce complaint is drafted, and we usually email it to you, because there is a page at the end of the divorce complaint called the verification page, that the client needs to execute and then return the original to us.

Once we have that back, then we file with a clerk at court. The case will be filed in one of two places, either in the county where the other party lives, or if the other party lived in a marital home within the past six months, the county where the marital home is. So the case will be filed in one of those two counties. Then the case will either be put off for sheriff service, service per by the process server, or we will ask the other party to voluntarily acknowledge service, which is the friendly way to do it. But that doesn’t work in every case.

By: Scott Shaw