Grounds matter a lot less than they used to.
In recent decades, as women have achieved greater parity in the workplace, judges have simultaneously become less interested in hearing the ins and outs of marriages that failed, who was responsible, and why.
Rather than applying a divorce agreement as a punitive measure against one spouse, courts today are more interested in developing workable plans for matters like child custody, where the parties will be required to maintain a functional relationship going forward, and a fair distribution of the assets and debts accumulated during the marriage.
The result of these trends in Family and Matrimonial Law is that the grounds under which people file are less important than they used to be, and their impact on the final settlement is much smaller.
The final nail in the coffin of adversarial, culpability-based divorce suits came with the introduction of Irretrievable Breakdown as a ground in 2010.
Under this no-fault ground, no case needs to be made against a spouse, and the process for getting a divorce was streamlined considerably.
At Friedman & Ranzenhofer, we help our clients achieve the best settlement for them, and get the fastest, most cost effective divorce.
Call us today at 585-484-7432 and talk to an experienced Rochester divorce attorney for free.