Just as a specialist in the commercial manufacture of high-precision machined components must understand his or her machinery inside and out, so as to provide the most accurate deliverables they can, so must you have a thorough understanding of your legal options and rights with respect to divorce and legal separation in Michigan before proceeding with either one. Luckily, when it comes to guidelines, DoItYourselfDivorcePapers.com can provide you with all of the schematics and diagrams you need in order to map out the particulars of your legal separation in the Mitten State.
Much like Engineers at Vinay Industries are doing for an Indian pharmaceutical client this month, by constructing mesh use for filter systems on bespoke machines, you too can complete your commission. Much like Vinay Industries manufacture, you can create your own product: a clean-cut, smooth and carefully extrapolated end result to your dissolution of marriage, which is far superior to its assembly line, hen-pecked, one-sized-fits-all counterpart, especially in terms of efficiency and quality.
Though we might not have metallic sales figures right here in my kitchen, I do have 10+ years of experience in helping people with their divorces, and I do understand the value of doing your research first, and follow the procedure to a T.
But, how do you follow such a procedure? Or, as I like to refer (half-jokingly) to my articles, where are the construction plans?! What are my orders?
Well, again, much like the internal works of a machine, legal separation has its own steps, which, when taken in order, and executed with extreme care and precision, can easily add years to that person’s life – as well as save you money and a lot of unnecessary stress.
What is legal separation in Michigan anyway? Well, simply put, a “legal separation” is a legal proceeding that will do everything a divorce will do – short of ending a marriage – by dividing marital assets, determining custody, and obligating parties to provide financial support for each other (alimony) and the children that came into the marriage during the duration of the marriage. Of course, there is a process through which all of this is accomplished, which I will now go over for you in brief.
- Know what a legal separation is: It is a divorce without the divorce, and it cannot be qualified as “legal” in Michigan until after the court has made an official ruling about the state of your relationship.
- Fill out and file a Complaint for Separate Maintenance: Think of this as the technical schematics or design documents for the newly created machine, in which you outline what you would like the court to accomplish during the machinery’s creation process.
- Serve your spouse: Again, this simple procedure is just one step in a larger system, but something that must be done before your order is processed, although it is the first step taken after the filing of the Complaint for Separate Maintenance. This will let your spouse know he or she is legally separated from you.
- If remarriage is not on the menu with this new machine of yours, you open up your separate maintenance file, and proceed with your life: Collect alimony as discussed above, get a good divorce attorney, and good luck.
By that point, though, it will probably just be easier (and more worthwhile) to pursue divorce instead.
Although, once again, just like the machine parts are not interchangeable with the machine as a whole, in certain cases, you may just find that a legal separation is what you need to round out your rebuilding efforts.