A client’s marriage is dissolved and the parties are officially divorced after a judge enters a Final Judgment. The court has to find the marriage, “irretrievably broken”, strange words for what was once a bond of love. We know the emotions our clients feel when they first find out their divorce is final can vary from a celebration to many, many tears.
The date a client’s divorce is finalized becomes another important benchmark in his or her life. They are about to start a new chapter in their lives, sometimes regretfully and sometimes thankfully. We thought this article about what people do on the day their divorce is finalized was interesting and telling how intense the finality can be.