mercredi 4 avril 2018

How To Avoid The Need For Divorce Financing

By Sandra Hamilton


Divorces are no longer seen as disgraceful. They are, in fact, rather common and single parent households have become commonplace. Divorcing is hardly ever a civilized, sterile affair. It involves a lot of stress and many divorcing couples find the process extremely painful. Unfortunately, divorces can cost a lot of money and many couples simply do not have liquid funds sufficient to cover this cost. In such cases, they may have to look at alternative sources of finance, such as divorce financing.

Divorces often leave both partners in precarious financial positions. The distribution and liquidation of their assets will cost money. If there are children involved they may need costly psychological counselling. Of course, the legal costs must also be paid. These costs can easily become astronomically high. Lawyers charge for every second that they spend on a case and much more for court appearances.

If divorcing couples can manage to be reasonable, they will realized that there is much that they can do to decrease the cost of the process. The legal fee can be substantially lower, for example, if only one lawyer is hired. The cost can be cut even further by privately agreeing on important issues instead of spending time in the office of a lawyer fighting about small matters.

The most expensive divorces are the ones that are contested. By agreeing on an uncontested divorce couples can lower the cost of the process significantly. They do not even have to use the services of an expensive lawyer. It is legal to rather use a specially qualified and licensed counsellor to draw up the final agreement and to present it to the court for approval.

Couples that find that they simply do not have the money to pay for their divorces may have to consider a special loan designed for such circumstances. Their are many companies that provide such loans quickly. The drawback is that these loans are expensive and they have very strict conditions and terms. Such a loan can easily dump the divorcing couple into crippling debt.

If a divorcing couple has assets, investments and shares it may be better to sell some of these rather than borrowing cash from a financing company. In most cases it is possible, for example, to borrow money at a reasonable rate from a long standing pension fund. Fixed term investments can be liquidated too, but this may require the payment of steep administrative fees.

Nobody wants to plan ahead for divorces but divorces are not the only legal issues that will face couples throughout their marriage. It is therefore a good idea to purchase an insurance policy that specifically caters for the cost of legal representation when needed. Such policies are affordable, especially if they are purchased at an early age.

Divorcing couples do not always think or act rationally. The fact remains, however, that they need to do everything possible to restrict the cost of divorcing. This can only be achieved with a reasonable attitude and a willingness to finalize the process with the minimum of fuss.




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