Ma Legal Separation Agreement

The mar­i­tal sep­a­ra­tion agree­ment in Mass­a­chu­setts should only be signed after both par­ties have care­ful­ly reviewed the terms of the agree­ment, under­stood the terms of the con­tract, and if both par­ties vol­un­tar­i­ly sign the agree­ment. There should be no evi­dence of coer­cion or coer­cion when the par­ties sign the agree­ment. You can try to write your own agree­ment with the list of prob­lems in ques­tion five, but sep­a­ra­tion agree­ments are tech­ni­cal, so it‘s hard to write your own. For more infor­ma­tion on divorce and sep­a­ra­tion, check out our arti­cles in our self-help man­u­al. As a gen­er­al rule, the Tri­bunal autho­rizes sep­a­ra­tion agree­ments that are bind­ing on the par­ties when they are fair and rea­son­able and are not the prod­uct of fraud or coer­cion. How­ev­er, among the cas­es where a mar­riage agree­ment is not allowed, there are when the agree­ment has the con­se­quence that a spouse becomes depen­dent on the State or if the trans­ac­tion con­tract is not in the best inter­ests of the chil­dren of the par­ties. For more infor­ma­tion on divorce, fam­i­ly law and mar­i­tal agree­ments, con­tact us by phone or email. We have offices in New Bed­ford and Boston and we are ready to answer your ques­tions and set up your free pri­vate advice. Most peo­ple think of legal sep­a­ra­tion. And it‘s the viable option for cou­ples in most states, but not in Mass­a­chu­setts. In the eyes of the law, you will not be lucky if you want to sep­a­rate, either because you are mar­ried or sin­gle in Mass­a­chu­setts. For­tu­nate­ly, there is only one straw you can cling to if you decide to fol­low your sep­a­rate paths, by mutu­al agree­ment — to get a sep­a­ra­tion agreement.

Some­times cou­ples who tem­porar­i­ly sep­a­rate are able to resolve their dif­fer­ences and get back togeth­er. Some­times they both just stay apart just because of their per­son­al beliefs or because they don‘t intend to remar­ry any­way. Often, sep­a­ra­tion is a pre­cur­sor to a divorce. In these sit­u­a­tions, the divorce process must be filed from the out­set. No deci­sion made in a sep­a­rate sup­port judg­ment is tak­en into account in the divorce. In order to fill in the gaps and clar­i­fy issues of asset shar­ing or oth­er issues, a post-judge agree­ment is estab­lished for some cou­ples, indi­cat­ing the pro­posed pro­vi­sions that would occur in the event of divorce, but there are some legal ambi­gu­i­ties in these agree­ments and each spouse has the oppor­tu­ni­ty to chal­lenge these con­di­tions if he or she wish­es. A divorce is a court deci­sion that ends a marriage.