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Question:

My wife and I are negotiating our uncontested divorce pro se and trying to reach a divorce settlement.

In lieu of child support payments, we agree that I would continue to pay off a community-property debt we incurred while married.

How do we incorporate our waiving of child support into our divorce settlement?

Question:

I would like to appeal a child support ruling.

My ex-wife receive an uncontested divorce from me several years ago because I was never notified of the trial and thus never received an opportunity to speak to the judge.

As part of the divorce, I was ordered to pay child support. Can I appeal this child support order since I do not think it was fair to enter a judgment against me when I wasn't there?

By Julie Garrison

Special to DadsDivorce.com

As discussed in yesterday's divorce article "Collaborative Divorce vs. Contested Divorce," in a collaborative divorce, the parties are encouraged to communicate what is important about an issue, instead of arguing about a specific position or remedy.

With this type of mutual exchange, the parties are cooperating with each other instead of insisting on a position and not taking into account where an estranged spouse is coming from.

This new method of alternative resolution is based on a different way of bargaining than the negotiating type that has always been used in family law cases.

By Julie Garrison

Special to DadsDivorce.com

The term "collaborative divorce" may seem like an oxymoron to many of you divorced dads reading this since the parties in a divorce tend to be uncooperative and incapable of collaborating on anything.

How can two angry, polarized, estranged spouses work together for an equally equitable solution in their divorce when they can’t even cooperate on how to squeeze a tube of toothpaste?

A collaborative divorce may seem impossible, however, it is setting a new positive trend in family law.

Question:

In an uncontested divorce, once the papers have been willingly signed by the Respondent, transition classes have been taken by both parties and the disposition has been signed by the Petitioner in his attorney's office, can the Respondent take any such action to stop the judge from signing a final divorce decree?