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Message: [QUOTE="Nehanda, post: 28365, member: 2262"] You need a lawyer who knows family law when you want to divorce in Zimbabwe. This lawyer helps you organize everything needed for court papers. The main thing they ask for is your actual marriage certificate, not a copy. They also need your spouse's home address or email to send them proper notice about the divorce. Your lawyer submits many important details to the court. These include why your marriage failed, the names and birthdays of any kids under eighteen, and a full list of everything you both own. The court wants to know which parent should raise the children day-to-day. They decide this based on what helps the children most, not what parents prefer. The court papers must explain how often the other parent can visit their kids and how much money they must pay each month for child support. Your application also needs to explain how you plan to split up houses, cars, furniture, and bank accounts. Both spouses can skip appearing in court if they agree on all these matters beforehand. People living outside Zimbabwe can still use the divorce system through local attorneys. A lawyer based in Zimbabwe handles everything, even when you live far away. The courts allow divorces when one person lives abroad, and the other remains in Zimbabwe. You can file divorce papers right away without living apart first since Zimbabwe law has no separation requirement. Divorce timing varies based on several situations. Contested divorces where spouses disagree take much longer than friendly arrangements. Cases involving people abroad might require special permission from judges. Sometimes, finding your spouse proves difficult and requires newspaper announcements or other unusual methods. The experience level of your attorney affects speed in difficult cases, and helpful attitudes from both sides make everything faster. [/QUOTE]

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