Divorce Papers Make People Mad
Divorce papers are upsetting and they can start wars all by themselves. The "papers" that are necessary to start a case qualify as an barrier to settlement because of the destruction they so often do to the parties' hopes for working things out smoothly.
When one of the spouses chooses to institute a divorce case, his or her attorney is required to file "divorce papers" with the court. These papers must conform to the statutory requirements for such a document and these requirements are never pleasant sounding to the person against whom the papers are filed.
Even if the lawyers make the papers as non-offensive as possible, most people get very upset when they read them. No one wants to be on the filing end of divorce papers and no one wants to read about their lives in the formal and accusatory manner in which they are set forth in these documents.
Even if the parties are intent upon having a friendly and cooperative divorce, the initial papers that are filed with the court cannot ever be as friendly or as cooperative as the parties might like them to be.
