Tucson Family Law Blog

Even if you know your divorce is the right decision for your personal wellbeing, you may have some regrets. Probably the biggest regret is that your divorce will divide the time you will spend with your children. You may expect to obtain a fair enough custody ruling in Arizona family court, or perhaps you and your spouse will work together to come up with as equal parenting time as possible.

Nevertheless, there are going to be days and evenings when the house will seem too quiet and your heart will ache just to hear the kids bickering again. While you may not be able to have your children as often as you would like after the divorce, there is a way to increase the time your custody arrangement allows.

Going through a divorce can affect any married couple. In your case, you may have seen the signs of the impending end of your marriage for some time, or you may have been caught by surprise when your spouse announced that he or she wanted a divorce. Whatever the case, you certainly want to make sure you handle the situation well.

If you felt that the divorce came out of nowhere, you may understandably feel emotional. However, you do not want to let those emotions get the better of you at such a time. Acting irrationally may be a mistake, and you likely want to avoid other divorce-related mistakes as well.

In most joint custody arrangements, the court will consider one parent the non-custodial parent. This is often because the children will primarily live with one parent in order to maintain continuity of their lives. For example, if you and the other parent do not live in the same school district, the children would spend the majority of their time with the parent in that school district.

In addition, your schedule may not allow you to spend as much time with your children as you would like. Any number of reasons could prevent you from being the custodial parent, and now, you feel as though society puts you into a box because of it.

Being a doctor may have always been your dream job. From a young age, you may have kept yourself on the educational path to reach your career goal. Along the way, you also got married and maybe had some kids. All in all, you felt your life was heading in the right direction. Then, one day, your plans changed when your spouse announced that he or she wanted a divorce.

Whether this news came as a shock or you saw it coming for some time, you still have a lot of road to cover ahead. In particular, you will need to handle a number of legal and financial issues related to the dissolution of your marriage. Because you are a high-income professional, you may feel particularly worried about how a divorce will affect your financial situation.