Getting Ready for Divorce Litigation: What to Expect and How to Prepare

The letter arrived on a Thursday. It had the court’s seal on it, and the date of the first hearing, and several paragraphs of procedural language that, no matter how many times she read them, seemed to mean something slightly different each time.

She had known litigation was possible. She had not known it would feel like this.

That gap between knowing something is coming and knowing what it actually requires of you is the thing nobody addresses. Attorneys prepare you for the legal part. Nobody prepares you for the person you have to be while the legal part unfolds.

That is what this post is for.