Your spouse has filed a petition for dissolution
of marriage against you, and now nothing is
happening. Hi I'm Robert Todd and I'm here
to answer the question how do you finalize
your divorce. Well of course this is going
to vary from state to state, but in general
simply filing the petition for dissolution
of marriage without more is not going to finalize
your divorce. Ultimately a judgment must be
rendered, and in order to get a judgment it
must be presented to the court that either
the parties have agreed upon the various aspects
of the marriage that need to be resolved,
have been resolved, or they ask the court
to make determinations on those issues. Such
issues as equitably distributing the assets
and the liabilities of the parties. Who's
going to have custody of the children, what
visitation there's going to be, and whether
there's going to be support paid by one spouse
to the other. Those types of questions. So
to finalize your divorce you must get before
the judge to either present an agreed upon
agreement or to present the issues that the
judge will decide. I'm Robert Todd and thank
you for watching.
