Or you can appeal. If You Must Appealing a divorce court judgment is usually a lousy use of your money. Something like 90 percent of divorce court judgments are sustained on appeal. Divorce court judgments tend to resolve several related issues in one ruling, and they re highly dependent on the judge s discretion after seeing the parties and assessing their credibility. This makes appellate courts reluctant to upset the discretion of the trial court unless they see something that s clearly out of whack.
Appeals are expensive.
You'll pay several hundred dollars for a trial transcript. You'll pay for your lawyer to digest the transcript, research the issues and prepare a brief. You'll pay your lawyer to evaluate the brief of your ex-spouse's lawyer and prepare a reply brief. You may pay your lawyer to attend oral argument on your behalf. You may pay for your ex-spouse's lawyer to do all the same things.