Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts

sounds fishy

I have been living with my boyfriend for almost 5 years now and he has been/ not leagally seperated from his wife for almost 6 years, they have adult children and have supposidly agreed to a no fault divorce, she is the one that is supposidly filing the divorce, I have been asking him about the progress of this and he has just told me that she has paid to file twice and because of a relapse in her lawyers health her lawyer has cancelled all of his cases and has not filed for it, he is a private lawyer as far as we know, but if it is health related and not contested and just needs to be filed shouldn't her lawyer have an assitant file it on behalf or send her paperwork to another lawyer to be filed. The whole thing just sounds fishy to me.


Asked on 7/25/08, 12:01 pm

3 Answers from Attorneys
Gregory Lee Gregory P. Lee, Attorney at Law

Re: sounds fishy

Something is indeed "fishy" here.

If your boyfriend really wants the divorce, he should get it moving himself. he can either retrieve that documents through the wife, or he can file his own "contested" divorce to force the matter along.

Not to play "Dear Abby," but if he is unwilling to do this, he has some attachment issues of his own.

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Answered on 7/25/08, 12:12 pm
Christopher Vaughn-Martel Charles River Law Partners, LLC

Re: sounds fishy

If both parties want a divorce, and can agree to the terms, they can have one in a matter of months. You can't move the process along for him, but he certainly could if he wanted to.

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Answered on 7/25/08, 1:32 pm

Re: sounds fishy

It does sound fishy. If they (boyfriend and wife) want a divorce, they can file a joint divorce themselves or hire another attorney.

If the wife does not want a divorce, he can file the divorce himself.

Either way getting a divorce is not difficult if there are no property issuses and since all the kids are adults (I assume all are finished with college or reached the age of 23) then there is no child support issue.

If he wants a divorce he can get one.

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Answered on 7/25/08, 2:30 pm


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