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    Default Should You Hire a Lawyer for Your Divorce

    My question involves a marriage in the state of:Connecticut.
    My wife filed for the divorce getting a free attorney, but she is telling me not to spend the money to hire a lawyer, because all she wants is the alimony and her personal properties whice I'm assuming it is just the personal stuff that she has in my house. We got married in a different country and it has been a little over three years. All my three houses that I own I bought them before we got married. She works part time making $300.00 a week and has no liability. I pay for her phone, car, telephone and she has been living with me since she served me with the divorce. She mentioned that her attorney is asking for $600.00 per month as an alimony. I'm a retired teacher, my pension is $556/week and have $600.00/week income from my rental homes. My expenses right now are even with my income. I got in touch with an attorney and she wants $3500.00 to finish the divorce. If I pay the attorney and then pay that alimony, then it might be more than what I can afford. Just thinking may be I skip the attorney fee and just pay the alimony? Can I hire an attorney after the first court meeting to change the alimony? Her car is leased and she wants the car which I have been paying the payments! She can have the car but not the phone payment which I think I could ask those at the nogociation time. I also offered $4000.00 to close the case but she wants$5000.00! I know if I hire my attorney, the attorney might make me agree with the 4, or the 5 grands! Then please advice me, should I go to the negociation table by myself or with my attorney? Can I stop the action at the first court day after I see her financial affedivit and then ask for the attorney to help me? She is a skilled Taylor and she is capable of working 5 days a week, she is 42 and I am 66 years old. I have an asset of $400,000.00 from my houses non with her. Thanks for your help.

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    My question involves a marriage in the state of:Connecticut.
    My wife filed for the divorce getting a free attorney, but she is telling me not to spend the money to hire a lawyer, because all she wants is the alimony and her personal properties whice I'm assuming it is just the personal stuff that she has in my house. We got married in a different country and it has been a little over three years. All my three houses that I own I bought them before we got married. She works part time making $300.00 a week and has no liability. I pay for her phone, car, telephone and she has been living with me since she served me with the divorce. She mentioned that her attorney is asking for $600.00 per month as an alimony. I'm a retired teacher, my pension is $556/week and have $600.00/week income from my rental homes. My expenses right now are even with my income. I got in touch with an attorney and she wants $3500.00 to finish the divorce. If I pay the attorney and then pay that alimony, then it might be more than what I can afford. Just thinking may be I skip the attorney fee and just pay the alimony? Can I hire an attorney after the first court meeting to change the alimony? Her car is leased and she wants the car which I have been paying the payments! She can have the car but not the phone payment which I think I could ask those at the nogociation time. I also offered $4000.00 to close the case but she wants$5000.00! I know if I hire my attorney, the attorney might make me agree with the 4, or the 5 grands! Then please advice me, should I go to the negociation table by myself or with my attorney? Can I stop the action at the first court day after I see her financial affedivit and then ask for the attorney to help me? She is a skilled Taylor and she is capable of working 5 days a week, she is 42 and I am 66 years old. I have an asset of $400,000.00 from my houses non with her. Thanks for your help.
    Did I understand you correctly? You have only been married for 3 years? There is no guarantee that you would have to pay alimony at all for such a short term marriage, and if you did, it would be for a very short amount of time. Perhaps it would be best for you to hire an attorney to make sure that you do not give up more than you have to give up.

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    Than you for your reply. She has told her attorney and both claim that I brought her here in this country and now she has nothing, does not speak the language, and she needs some money to stand on her own feet! She speaks well enough to work a d serve the customers at her work place! She plays this game with everyone even with her attorney! Everyone thinks that she is a victim and I caused it!

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    Than you for your reply. She has told her attorney and both claim that I brought her here in this country and now she has nothing, does not speak the language, and she needs some money to stand on her own feet! She speaks well enough to work a d serve the customers at her work place! She plays this game with everyone even with her attorney! Everyone thinks that she is a victim and I caused it!
    Well, in that case yes, you do have an obligation to support her...and she doesn't even need the divorce to enforce that. You agreed to that when you sponsored her entry into the US. In fact, the 600.00 she is asking from you may be less than the amount you would be required to provide to her based on your sponsorship.

    At a minimum you need a quick consult with an immigration attorney to find out what you are obligated for under your sponsorship, and then another quick consult with divorce attorney, based on the info you get from the immigration attorney.

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    Thank you, yes I did ask an immigration attorney to see how that would work! The attorney said, it is not really easy to get money out of sponsors anymore, and if that happenes then I have to come up with the rest, that means to keep her on %125 above the poverty level. In the state of CT, the poverty level is around $15000.00 . She makes around $10,000.00 a year.

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    She is divorcing you, right? She could have stayed. If you beat her, or if you are unfaithful, etc. then she might get alimony but if she came to this country voluntarily and married you, and now has just decided she made a mistake, there is little chance of her getting alimony. Yes, when you are involved in a legal proceeding and the other side is represented by an attorney you ABSOLUTELY ought to have your own attorney. When the other side tells you to save your money and don't hire one, you ESPECIALLY need at attorney.

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    She is divorcing you, right? She could have stayed. If you beat her, or if you are unfaithful, etc. then she might get alimony but if she came to this country voluntarily and married you, and now has just decided she made a mistake, there is little chance of her getting alimony. Yes, when you are involved in a legal proceeding and the other side is represented by an attorney you ABSOLUTELY ought to have your own attorney. When the other side tells you to save your money and don't hire one, you ESPECIALLY need at attorney.
    Psst Bubba...he sponsored her. It no longer has to do with divorce, it has to do with sponsorship.

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    His question is not an immigration question, but a question of whether he needs a divorce lawyer. He does. She has initiated the divorce. If that was groundless, she will get her no-fault divorce, but it is not a certainty that she will get alimony. An attorney should advise him to withdraw his sponsorship of her immediately. He might also seek an annulment based on marriage fraud. Too many possibilities for discussion board advice. He very much needs an attorney.

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    His question is not an immigration question, but a question of whether he needs a divorce lawyer. He does. She has initiated the divorce. If that was groundless, she will get her no-fault divorce, but it is not a certainty that she will get alimony. An attorney should advise him to withdraw his sponsorship of her immediately. He might also seek an annulment based on marriage fraud. Too many possibilities for discussion board advice. He very much needs an attorney.
    I agree that he needs an attorney, but the fact that he is obligated to support her very much IS an immigration matter...and he cannot simply withdraw the sponsorship, it doesn't work that way. There are specific conditions that must be met before a sponsorship ends.

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    Annulling the marriage and withdrawing the sponsorship is appropriate in a case where someone married only to get a green card and then files for divorce. I never said it was simple, which is why a lawyer is needed. The obligation for support is not infinite nor absolute.

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