Atlantic City Legal Blog

Dissolving a marriage is far from an easy task. In fact, it can be one of the most challenging events a person will experience in his or her lifetime. Fortunately, taking certain steps early on in the divorce process in New Jersey might make it more palatable given the circumstances.

First, tracking one's financial expenses carefully during the divorce proceeding is paramount. The reality is, two divorcing individuals may find it challenging to keep their costs separate. In addition, they may be perplexed about how to deal with a joint bank account and the expenses incurred in it. However, if they clearly record their individual expenses and point out which expenses are shared versus separate expenses, this may make handling property and division during the divorce process easier.

Twenty-three individuals in New Jersey were recently arrested for allegedly committing crimes involving drugs and weapons. Their arrests came at about 2 a.m. on a recent Wednesday. However, people who are accused of drug and gun crimes are always presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.

Authorities reportedly seized seven handguns along with drug money totaling $360,000 from a home and motor vehicles while arresting the 23 parties in two separate New Jersey counties. At that time, police also allegedly seized over two pounds of the drug heroin and about one pound of cocaine. Police said that while searching the home and vehicles, they also discovered prescription Oxycontin and Xanax pills.

Not every marital dissolution process is the same. For instance, some divorcing couples choose to pursue settlement agreements so as to avoid traditional divorce litigation. Meanwhile, others go to trial to have a judge decide how they will handle the splitting of debts, for example. Here are some factors to take into consideration when trying to determine which route to take in New Jersey.

For starters, time is an important factor to consider when deciding between a divorce settlement and a divorce trial. This is because a trial may take more than a year to complete, while the settlement process may be finished in just a few months. Thus, if two spouses are able to work out their differences through negotiation, for instance, it would behoove them to choose settlement. Meanwhile, if they cannot agree on key divorce matters, they have no choice but to go to trial.

A long marriage is a sign that two people love each other enough to fight through the difficult times they've faced. Some people think that once they're measuring the marriage in decades that they aren't at risk of a divorce. The truth is that even long marriages can end.

In many cases, the reasons for the divorce have been festering in the relationship for a long time. While people may think that the sudden empty nest is a factor, the couple spending time alone simply highlights how far apart they've grown.