With a completed and signed separation agreement, the couple is free to proceed with a divorce action in court. Write to the editors and we will be happy to provide a list of mediators. Men are entitled to alimony. Most children under the age of 18 will live with a single parent or a stepfamily by the year 2000. Divorce courts may divide future pension benefits.
Different rules apply to state pensions, divisible under state law.
We divide assets according to an equitable, not equal, distribution rule, which allows judges to make unequal awards. Your lawyer and her fee should not stand between you and your spouse. You may reconcile. More money changes hands in divorces than in all other legal cases combined. Penguin Books, 1993.