How can a 16-year-old in North Carolina get a divorce?

Answer 1

Because you were underage when you married and it has been fewer than 60 days if you did not have parental consent you can get an annulment. Go to the court and file an annulment action if this is the case. If you did have parental consent you will need a divorce. You will have to file a legal separation and then six months later you can get the divorce. Again go to the court and file the action. The secretaries will tell you where to go and what to do.

Answer 2

If you and your spouse do not have children, or hold property, there are some "boilerplate" divorce forms that you can buy at an office supply. Both of you sign, then get your signatures notarized and then file it at the courthouse. You will have a court date that they will notify you both about. It will cost you some money to do these things, but not as much as if you did it the other way with a lawyer.

Make sure you don't forget to close joint credit card accounts, quit claim the cars and house and so on, so that your affairs are truly separate.

However, if there are any areas of contention or question, it would be a good thing to have a lawyer check over your agreement before you file. It may cost, but it will save you grief in the long run.

Answer 3

In North Carolina, divorces are usually obtained based on one year's separation. After you and your spouse have lived separate continuously for one year, without resuming the marital relationship, either of you may obtain an absolute divorce. Attempts at reconciliation marked by isolated instances of sexual intercourse will not automatically end the period of continuous separation. However, instances of sexual intercourse and nights spent together may add to the totality of circumstances sufficient to cause a court to find that you have voluntarily renewed the marital relationship. Should a court so find, the twelve month clock will be reset.

Answer 4

The same way as after being separated just 12 months -- Go to the Clerk of Court's office at your county's courthouse and ask for the forms & instructions for requesting a divorce. Complete the forms, pay the court costs, see the judge in court, and get rid of that old baggage. If your spouse can be found and will sign the court paperwork, it's simpler and faster... But, after 17 years of separation. there's little chance of complications by what your spouse does or doesn't do.

Answer 5

By filing for one in family court