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Divorce questions
Hello all, I hope someone can help me out.
I have been officially separated since early october 2013, I was told that divorce will be processed after a one year separation, and in the case that both parties agree, it can be 6 months after.
Now both my and ex agree we want to divorce as soon as possible, so it means early april we can go ahead with the divorce process. My questions are:
- How long does it take normally until the divorce is final if we start early April?
- We have an apartment together, can we have finalization of the divorce and decide what to do for our apartment separately or do you have to do both at the same time? (meaning if we dont reach an agreement with the apt we cannot be divorced yet)
- Is there a waiting period after the finalization of your divorce to be remarried?
That is it for now, I hope someone can help me. Thanks in advance!
If you both agree to the divorce, then you should go together now and see a notaire who will advise you. Whatever happens, the divorce will take a minimum of 6 months.
Whether or not you need to finalize the property question, I don't know, however it seems unlikely that you have agreed amicably to the divorce if you haven't actually agreed what happens to the single most important asset you jointly own.
Personally, my advice would be to have a legally enforceable contract on what will happen to the apartment BEFORE you get divorced. The notaire will be able advise you on this.
I'm in a similar situation but no property to divide up etc. We just want to be divorced now. Does any one know how much this costs?
Assuming that you both agree, there's no property or children, and you go together to a notaire and have him/her write up a divorce contract that you both agree to and sign, it won't actually cost more than a few hundred Euro at most. You're basically paying for their time to check your documents, and write one or two sides of paper.
On the other hand, if you don't agree to everything, i.e. you want to get divorced, but still disagree on some things, like who gets the furniture, or who's going to stay in the rented apartment, or who's going to pay the bills, don't expect it to be cheap or easy. Because if ANYTHING still needs to be negotiated, it will take time and you'll end up paying lawyers as well as notaires to get it all sorted.
As someone who has been through the process here in Belgium, (and I had a house and three children), I was frankly amazed at how simple and cheap the process was.
But it was also the case that both my partner and I had agreed everything beforehand, i.e. how we'd arrange between ourselves to manage our children, how we'd divide the house, who would pay what to who etc., so when we went to the notaire, they basically just drew up a divorce contract based on what we'd agreed, and that was that. It took about 2 hours, I think it cost around 250 Euros. (In total the divorce cost more than that, because I also had registration fees to pay for buying half the house from my partner.)
The process of getting divorced from the time you sign your divorce contract is 6 months.
1) Sign a contract
2) appear before a judge 2x in a six month period to confirm you want to get divorced,
and that's it.
