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What are the issues that are most important to you in finalizing your divorce? Is it the custody of your children? Your financial security?

Talking with an experienced divorce lawyer in Worcester County is the best next step you can make.

Deirdre Healy is available for a free consultation to answer your questions about the divorce process in Massachusetts. Your dissolution of marriage agreement will play a key role in ensuring your future financial security, child custody and child care.
Email your questions and concerns to: Deirdre Healy, Esq. - dhealy@dhealylaw.com 


How do I find the right Divorce Lawyer in Worcester MA?
It is important to find a divorce attorney who is not only experienced and knowledgeable, but is also someone you are comfortable with. However, it can seem overwhelming to choose among the multitude of divorce lawyers in your area. The best place to begin is by simply making the call to talk with an experience divorce lawyer to discuss your situation and your particular concerns. You will find that the right lawyer will naturally work out.

What are grounds for a Divorce in Worcester County?
In Massachusetts, the following are grounds for divorce: adultery, impotency, desertion, alcohol and drug abuse, cruel and abusive treatment, irretrievable break down of the marriage, or confinement for five years or longer in prison.

What are my options in resolving a Divorce?
In the state of Massachusetts, you have two primary options for dissolving your marriage: 1) Mediation; and 2) Litigation.

What is Divorce Mediation?
One way of obtaining a divorce in Worcester County is through divorce mediation. Divorce mediation is a method of dissolving your marriage without going to court and without having a judge make final decisions. Instead, divorce mediation allows the two parties to decide the outcome. Divorce Mediation not only offers a setting much more amicable then a courtroom, but it also is a more cost-effective way to reach a divorce agreement. Because the parties themselves, rather than a judge, negotiate the terms of their divorce, the cost is often significantly lower than when parties opt to litigate their divorce. Attorney's fees are often significantly lower as well.

Litigation
Resolving a divorce in a courtroom is quite different from doing so through mediation, as a judge will make the final ruling regarding the terms of the divorce. Whereas mediation offers parties the opportunity to negotiate the terms of their divorce, with litigation, the judge has the final say on all of the matters pertaining to the divorce.