What Is a Marital Termination Agreement?
By Dan Brazil | Published on August 3, 2011 | 0 Comments
In the state of Minnesota, divorcing couples who are able to agree on all aspects of property division and child support can agree to enter into a stipulated agreement. This agreement, explains Minneapolis family law attorney Dan Brazil of The Law Offices of Daniel J. Brazil, is generally referred to as a marital termination agreement.
Brazil goes on to explain that couples who can agree on child support, child custody, property division, and all other issues related to their divorce actions are able to negotiate complete settlements in their cases without having to go through the court. This cuts down on the amount of expensive litigation that is necessary, which is one of the main reasons why marital termination agreements are so desirable to divorcing couples.
Of course, the Minneapolis family law attorney explains that couples are rarely able to agree on all the aspects related to their divorce without the help and guidance of an attorney. The majority of couples who are getting divorced are already in a position where they are not getting along and they are not seeing eye-to-eye, which makes it less likely that they will reach any agreements prior to their first court hearings. Nonetheless, Brazil says that hiring a family law attorney in Minneapolis can help get people to the point where they can agree on these types of matters.
Brazil says that some couples know they are interested in avoiding litigation and forming a marital termination agreement right from the start. When these couples come in for consultations, they might say “Well, you know my friend told me that she settled her whole case by writing everything down and having her lawyers draft up an agreement”; however Brazil says that most people still don’t know the details of what that agreement is called or what it really entails. All these people know is that going this route can save them money and prevent them from having to go to court.
In most cases, Brazil’s clients come to understanding that a marital termination agreement might be something they can pull off after hearing more about it in his office. These clients would then consult with their soon-to-be exes to make sure they are on the same page, and then they would get to work having their agreements memorialized by the attorney.
Brazil is a Minneapolis family law attorney who says that marital termination agreements are a more cost-effective means of resolving issues associated with divorce and they can end up being a more cooperative style of finalizing divorce cases. He has worked on many cases that started out contested and wound up being resolved by these agreements.
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