When people hear the word “divorce,” their minds rocket toward catastrophe. Sadly, those predictions of doom are often true. But divorce itself doesn’t create a crisis any more than a stick of dynamite explodes a building. Instead, a chain of deliberate actions transforms what could be simple, quick, and inexpensive into a costly, messy, and time-consuming debacle. Family and Divorce Mediator Matthew M. House, J.D. corrects some common myths about divorce so that the public is not terrified by the prospect of their lives collapsing just because a marriage ends.
MYTH #3: Getting a divorce is stressful and hostile and requires one of us to sue the other and send the sheriff to the house in a police car to serve the papers.
TRUTH: Why freak the kids out and embarrass your spouse by serving him or her with papers? You can do what is called a co-petition. Each spouse goes to the courthouse together to file the papers. No surprises and no hostility. After all, the spouse who wants a divorce is going to get one, so there’s no sense in fighting the inevitable.
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