Contested Divorce Long Island: Getting the Court Involved.

Even though you are involved in a Long Island contested divorce, you and your spouse, through your Long island divorce attorneys, can seek to negotiate a settlement. Nothing further happens through the Court system until one of you in your Long Island contested divorce requests the intervention of the Court. Once one of you makes that request, by filing a Request for Judicial Intervention (RJI), the court system will randomly assign a judge and an initial court appearance will be scheduled, typically within 45 days of the request. Prior to that initial court appearance, called the Preliminary Conference, each of your is required to complete a detailed financial statement, called a Net Worth Statement, and to provide certain supporting materials such as tax returns, pay stubs, and similar items. this is required in any Long Island contested divorce. A desire to avoid providing those papers to the Court is often a motivation to one or both of you to seek Long Island divorce mediation as a more private forum to settle your differences.

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