Simple Divorce Papers

First, “quick” is a relative term. Meal replacement drinks let you make and consume a quick meal in under a minute. But in terms of divorce, “quick” will still mean months, not minutes. Depending on the rules in place in your jurisdiction, even after you have filed all the necessary forms there will likely be a period of several weeks for the court staff to review and process the forms. If you have to serve documents on your spouse, there will be time required for that.

There will also likely be a period of waiting for a search to be done to ensure no application to terminate your marriage has been made by either you or your spouse in any other jurisdiction. Finally, there is usually a final waiting period of one month before your divorce becomes final. So with all that going on, your divorce will likely take several months even after you have filed your divorce papers.

However, there are certainly some things you can do to ensure the whole process takes as little time as possible. Probably the most significant will be in choosing how to prepare your divorce documents. If you hire a law firm, prepare to spend some money, and some time. Now, if you have issues which you have not been able to settle with your spouse either through direct negotiation or mediation, you should hire a lawyer rather than try to represent yourself or to simply concede the issue.

But if you and your spouse have reached an agreement on all the issues, hiring a law firm may be unnecessarily slow and expensive when compared to the alternatives. You can use the links on the left side of this page to explore the possibility of hiring a professional document assembly service which can prepare all your documents for a reasonable fee, usually in just a day or two. The only other option, doing it all yourself, is definitely the cheapest but will prove to be extremely time consuming.

Here is our list of tips to get a quick divorce:

Use a professional divorce document assembly service as suggested above.

Locate, or order a copy of, your marriage certificate or marriage registration form.

If you have children, locate, or obtain copies of, your income tax returns for the last three years in case these are required. Also copy your last three pay stubs or get a letter from your employer stating your year-to-date earnings.

Talk to your spouse and get him or her to agree to file for a joint divorce if that is offered in your jurisdiction. This will reduce the time (and cost) of having your spouse served with the divorce documents. Even if you cannot file jointly, getting your spouse to cooperate by signing any necessary forms and returning them quickly will speed up the process. You should even supply a large brown self-addressed and postage-prepaid envelope to make it super-easy for your spouse to get the papers back to you quickly.