I need help finding out what my rights are if I want to get legally separated or divorced in Texas. I have a 12 month old child. I do not want to get a lawyer just yet. I know there has to be somewhere I can go or call to get advice and find out what my rights are and what I need to do.

Is it against the law for the person that wants the divorce to keep the papers from the spouse that wants the divorce also what should that person do to get papers? Get a lawyer ?

(Married 21 years, no kids, I’m disabled. Divorced in Alaska)

I just received my divorce decree & the Judges ruling. It is SO obvious that this Judge is so in the wrong! I swear he was paid off or something. My ex is a contractor & has on more then 1 occasion worked out deals with lawyers & a judge in Montana to take care of his legal problems, like he did some building on the Judges house in exchange for him excusing all of my ex’s traffic violations. I have no doubt he’s capable of doing this again.

What happened at the trial was unbelievable enough (ie. when my ex was exposed for ILLEGALLY selling our house in 8/09 & took & spent 0,000 from it, never accounting for most of it, he did it without my consent & against court orders, to which another judge was considering holding him in contempt of court for, but this judge didn’t care, he got irate with me saying I was "wasting the courts time by even bringing it up" & that my ex "just made a mistake & it didn’t matter anymore…") When I tell anyone any of what happened, they think like I do, this Judge is not just unfair & bizarre, he’s outright WRONG!

The rulings however, is so outrageously unfair, I was SO SCREWED, I can’t begin to list the absolute insane rulings by this judge, who was 100% in my ex’s favor & 100% against me. I believe its at least in part because my ex could afford his lying lawyer & I couldn’t find a lawyer who would help me since I had NO $, so I had to do all the research myself. Trust me, I did NOT want to represent myself, but I had no choice, so I used whatever means I could, still having to spend 00 in legal & research fees (that I had to borrow because I have NOTHING since my ex financially abandoned me 16 months ago, before I even left him! Which BTW, I left him because of his abuse & neglect, I’m also disabled & often bedridden for months at a time, which I also proved in court that my ex contributed to my illness & harmed me physically, even poisoning me. All of it, according to the judge, "doesn’t matter.")

I filed EVERYTHING correctly & even presented my case exactly as I was supposed too, my ex AND his shyster lawyer both admitted at the trial that their records were incorrect about several things, admitted that my ex DID sell the house illegally. I proved this & so much more, I proved everything!!!

6 hours worth of a crazy trial, I was married for 21 years, I’m sick, my ex is an abusive lying mentally unstable barbaric dishonest JERK & I proved it all in court!!! & I still got screwed royally! I just can’t believe it.

I didn’t ask for tons of money, I just needed help with medical bills & some security, something??? After 21 years, I’m sick & he’s an admitted lier, he is in possession of hundreds of thousands of dollars (in $ & in marital property & assets,) ALL of which was proven in court, I’m in possession of a broken down 12 year old car & my laptop & 2 barstools, & I begged the courts for help, for 10 months I begged them, & I got NOTHING!!!!! Not even help to pay for medicine. I just don’t believe this!!!

So…. what can I do? How do you fight a judge?
Can you appeal a divorce case?
Can I have the judge investigated some how? Someone told me I can file a complaint, but then what? What happens after a complaint is filed? Does anyone care about complaints filed like that?
Someone else suggested I contact the newspapers in Alaska about this Judge, what do you think?

I got the court transcripts just sent to me too, BUT they’re just summarized, all of it, there isn’t ONE complete sentence in the entire thing, & some of it is even missing??? They’re not even full transcripts!

Everything is so blatantly obvious to me that something fishy is going on & I don’t know what I can do about it. Is there anything I CAN do? Anything at all? (Please don’t tell me answers like "Get a lawyer." I need real answers, this is my life, my whole life, this isn’t petty! I need some advice!

Help me, please, someone?
Cliff: Don’t talk about what you don’t know! & trust me, you DON’T have a clue what you’re talking about!

The biological person of my daughter is attempting to ruin my life by trying to contact my daughter after years of not paying child support and seeing her. He cussed me out the other day and told me he would see me in court, and that I can’t keep his daughter from him. I can write a 300 page book on why he can’t see her, but basically he is not a good person. I am trying to talk to a lawyer but they are so HARD to get ahold of. Any advice from law students or lawyers out there. I’m in California. Im very worried a judge may give some sort of custody because he/she may say it’s in the best interest of the child. (She is nine and hates him!)

he is apparently not responding to my attorney or the agreed upon court order to choose a Guardian Ad Litem for my son so that I can get visitation and I have not seen my son in three mths since my wife abducted him.
My lawyer says that he will file a motion to hold him in contempt next week.
Do i have any personal recourse since this guy is apparently trying to charge me into oblivion???
he does not realise my lawyer is locked in for a fee no matter how long this is drawn out due to personal friendship ….. but emotionally I really would like to see my son . my wife is litterally suffering from sociopath and bi polar disorder … and she is really mental.I need the Guardian Ad Litem so my wife can get ordered to take a psyche evaluation

Someone told me it takes about to months and the lawyer she was refering to apparently is the best, is 2 months normal????
thank you so much for ur replies
im in montreal, qc, canada
im in montreal, qc, canada

My lawyer thinks I should ask my cheating husband to pay for subsidiary education in my divorce decree… what does that mean?
I have been married for 20 years I worked part time until our twins went to college this year. I work full time in sales now. I do have a masters degree

My husband and his ex-girlfriend have a 5 year old together, my stepson. They both agreed to do shared custody but we were told we need the agreement written up by a lawyer. Could someone give me an estimate on how much it would cost to have this written up including attorney fees?

My fiancee and I want to write out an agreement between us regarding our finances, property, and prerequisites to divorce. For example, we want a clause that requires us to go through x-number of hours of marital counseling before we can file for divorce. There’s also a clause stating that in the event of a divorce, neither one of us is entitled to the other’s retirement funds, etc. Can something like this be done by ourselves, and then just notarized or signed before witnesses or something? Or do we have to get this done by an actual lawyer? I’m not in the least bit interested on whether or not we Should get this done, or whether or not You would do this. I’m simply curious if we can do it ourselves or if we have to retain a lawyer. Thanks!

I am hoping to modify the divorce decree to where my ex has better visitation time with our kids during the year and to also modify who gets to claim the kids on taxes too. But Im hoping that I will not need a lawyer to do this.

As it is, he and I currently have joint legal custody. He pays me support and is only offered four weeks of visitation thruout the year due to him being in the military…I want to make it so that he gets the kids for the summers since they are school age now and every other holiday.