Legal Question in Family Law in Tennessee

Re: Friendly divorce

Certainly you can get a divorce without an attorney. You can also perform open-heart surgery without an attorney. Neither, however, is a very good idea.

One reason it is not a good idea is that a non-lawyer starts off not knowing so many things that it is really not wise to try this simply by finding a form and trying to fill things in. For example, you refer to "sole custody," but Tennessee no longer refers to the division of parental rights and responsibilities as "custody," neither sole nor joint.

Contact an attorney to save yourself a great deal of time and anguish, and likely also to save yourself money.

I also strongly urge you to reconsider your plans to divorce until your children are grown. If you and the father still are in fact "friends" it would seem you should be able to put up with each other until the kids are grown. Divorce will send the children messages, teach them lessons, and create problems for them which I suspect you have not considered. Among those will be that people, and our relationships with them, are disposable when no longer convenient.