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By: Valerie E. Anias,\nEsq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On October 1, 2018, Maryland Law expanded divorce by Mutual Consent to permit couples with minor children to divorce without waiting the formerly required one-year so long as they settled all marital issues and<\/em> issues concerning the children including child support, physical custody and legal custody.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n Now, more than ever, Courts are going to want to see detailed and thorough separation agreements which completely capture the settlement arrangement between parties related to the details of their marriage and children.\u00a0 Parties can create an all encompassing Voluntary Property Settlement and Separation Agreement as well as a Parenting Plan in order to ensure the entirety of their agreement is completely captured.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A Separation Agreement\nresolves all marital issues. You and\nyour spouse will want ot discuss and settle various issues concerning marital property,\nchild custody, child access schedule, and child support. Examples of marital property are joint bank\naccounts, cars, real property, debt, retirement, and alimony. <\/p>\n\n\n\n When determining\ncustody and access, Parenting Plans encourage parents to focus on the needs of\ntheir children, how best to co-parent, and how to anticipate and\/or address the\nvarious changes in their lives at the time of its creation and in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Frequently\nparties obtain their divorce, receive their Judgment of Absolute Divorce, and\nsome form of an access schedule, holiday schedule, and child support. What happens when this changes? What about claiming the children on your\ntaxes? What about switching\nschools? Sports? Doctors? \nThe Judgment of Absolute Divorce is frequently silent on many of these\nissues which results in continuous litigation. \nA well-drafted Parenting Plan can resolve many, if not all, of these\nissues. More importantly, it allows\nparents to come together as parents \u2013 not as spouses. They may no longer be spouses but they will\nalways be parents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Attorneys\nand mediators can help you and your family create a Separation Agreement and\/or\nParenting Plan that best suits your family dynamic and situation. Additionally, attorneys and mediators often\nknow what questions to ask, problems to prepare for, things to consider that\nmany parents in the moment don\u2019t think about. \nMost importantly, settling the disputes between the spouses when it\ncomes to them as parents also make the divorce process less painful for\nchildren. Their parents may not be\nmarried but their family will have consistency and a plan in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Call\nthe attorneys at ERA Law Group, LLC today at (410) 919-1790 and ask how we can\nhelp you plan for your family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By: Valerie E. Anias, Esq. On October 1, 2018, Maryland Law expanded divorce by Mutual Consent to permit couples with minor children to divorce without waiting the formerly required one-year so long as they settled all marital issues and issues concerning the children including child support, physical custody and legal custody.\u00a0 Now, more than ever,Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[434,430,424,423,426,413,435,415,427,425],"tags":[268,701,707,10,36,37,11,450,270,553,12,343,96,225,193,125,40,226,227,635,15,49,42,705],"class_list":{"0":"post-1143","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-adoption","8":"category-alimony","9":"category-child-support","10":"category-custody","11":"category-divorce-and-separation","12":"category-family-law","13":"category-litigation","14":"category-mediation","15":"category-prenuptial-agreement","16":"category-visitation","17":"tag-access","18":"tag-annapolis-attorney","19":"tag-annapolis-lawyer","20":"tag-child-support","21":"tag-children","22":"tag-custody","23":"tag-divorce","24":"tag-divorce-lawyer","25":"tag-divorced-family","26":"tag-divorces","27":"tag-family-law","28":"tag-family-lawyers","29":"tag-lawyer","30":"tag-legal-custody","31":"tag-mediation","32":"tag-mutual-consent","33":"tag-parenting-plan","34":"tag-parenting-plans","35":"tag-physical-custody","36":"tag-property-settlement-agreement","37":"tag-separation","38":"tag-settlement","39":"tag-visitation","40":"tag-voluntary-agreement","41":"entry"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eralawgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}