Legal Question in Family Law in Kansas

When a divorce Petition is filed to start a case, it is common for the attorney representing the petitioner to take proposed Temporary Orders to the judge and ask that they be approved. Temporary Orders are designed to control the conduct of the parties while a case is pending. Temporary Orders often say who is going to live in the marital residence, which vehicles each party is going to drive, whether child support and/or spousal maintenance is going to be paid, and that the parties are restrained from harassing each other. If the party being served with the papers (the respondent) doesn't agree with the terms of the Temporary Orders, an expedited review hearing can be obtained. Upon further review, the judge may decide to modify the Temporary Orders. If no request for modification of the Temporary Orders is made, then those Orders will be valid and in effect until they are replaced by the final Decree of Divorce. The Temporary Orders are in effect even if the respondent doesn't sign them. Consult an experienced family law attorney.