What is the difference between a family lawyer and a divorce lawyer?
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What is the difference between a family lawyer and a divorce lawyer?
Divorce is actually a subset of family law. A divorce lawyer is a family law lawyer who does divorce. Family Law encompasses divorce, child custody, child support, spousal support, paternity (establishing the legal father/child relationship), adoption, guardianship, orders of protection and other things.
Who pays costs in divorce?
each party to proceedings under [the Family Law Act] shall bear his or her own costs.” This is the general rule. There is merit to this being the general rule considering the kinds of parties who are involved (i.e. mums/wives & dads/husbands). It is also said that there is often no ‘winner’ and ‘loser’ in family law.
How long does a divorce take to settle?
That study showed that in 45% of cases couples had resolved their family law dispute within twelve months of separation and another 25% of couples had resolved their dispute within two years of separation with the remaining families taking longer than two years to reach agreement.
