Legal Question in Family Law in Louisiana
please give me some reasons I can contest a divorce. I want to stop the divorce until we have the property and custody hearing because he is not an educated man and is having a mid-life crisis and I think if he hears everything he has to give up, he will come around and snap out of this depression he is in and go to counseling and reconcile.I feel like he started the divorce a year ago and he has not talked to anyone about it that I can find. He has only one friend and they only get together during hunting season ( he is a intravert, bigtime), so I think he feels he started something he can't stop due to pride and loosing face with his family. But I have to find a reason to stop the divorce at my Mondays court hearing so we can mediate first, before the divorce is granted. Please give me all reasons that you have heard before, that worked. I want to go into court, contest the divorce due to ______ and ask the judge if we can mediate the property settlement and custody issues before the divorce is granted. What are my chances of the judge saying yes? I know my husand will say yes to mediation because he hates spending the money he has on lawyer fees. So far he has spent $3,000 and I have not consulted with anyone but the two of you from Lake Charles via computer. I am hoping to pay 1/2 of mediation on the little money I have and be done, or reconcile. I put 24 years into this marriage and I don't want to be like others and not make it through the rough spot. Thanks, you have help me already tremendously! and I thank you a million. My child and I eat cereal at night so I will have enough money for mediation. I agreed to $50 a week a year ago because he got mad on a monday and filed for divorce on tuesday, so I thought when we sat down with his lawyer I would be kind and say $50 a week because I thought he was coming back once he cooled down. I GUESS I WAS WRONG! lol
1 Answer from Attorneys
I will not help you commit a fraud. There is no way to stop it unless you have lived together as man and wife during the 6 months he is claiming you have been separated. And by what you wrote in your questions that would be a lie. Then you could face contempt/lying under oath charges and jail. You can still mediate the property settlement after the divorce and he can see what he is losing and maybe want to re-marry. Don't count on it, I think your introvert has found wings.
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