Start Planning What You Want Your Future to Look Like After Divorce
The sooner you learn about the importance of having a master battle plan for your divorce, the better. Strategy and planning will make or break your divorce.
It starts with gathering documents, hiring an attorney, and evaluating your finances. Once you develop your plan, you'll be referring to it during the different phases of your divorce. If at all possible, view your divorce as the separation of a business partnership.
At the Massachusetts Family Law Group (MFLG), we help clients develop the battle plan, advising them about the entire divorce process and helping them get started by discussing:
Gathering Documents
Here's the list of documents you want to gather before the first strategy meeting with your attorney:
- Check registers (or backup files of computer records)
- Complete household inventories (including pictures, if possible)
- Tax returns
- All bank statements
- Financial statements to banks
- Deeds and titles
- Loan documentation
- Retirement, pension or profit-sharing plans
- Insurance policies
- Business payroll records
- W-2 statements
- Investment accounts
- Employment agreements
- Expense records
Caution: If Your Case Is Contested, Keep Your Records Where Your Spouse Won't Find Them
If no safe place is available in your home. Keep them with a trusted friend or entrust them to your attorney. There is no point in letting the other side know your strategy or how much information you have gathered or lack.
The Massachusetts Family Law Group is a team of experienced, aggressive and well-coordinated attorneys who litigate divorce, child custody, support and property division matters.
Referrals Tell the Stories of Our Success
We receive many referrals from other lawyers and satisfied clients, including opposing attorneys from former cases – strong indicators of our firm's success. To learn more about how we can help you, call (800) 941-DIVORCE or e-mail us for a free, no-obligation consultation at any of our local offices.
