My question involves a marriage in the state of: Arizona
My wife filed for divorce in April of 2015. After trying to save things, she agreed to do a legal separation in September of 2015.
On August 31 of 2016, she refiled for divorce. Rather than go through a marriage with my wife wanting out, I am giving up. There is a lot of history and pain, but that is for another forum, I guess... For the legal side, I have two questions...
1.) If I do not file a response, she can get a default judgement. Since I can accept:
A) terms of an agreement signed by both of us from April 2015
B) terms stated in legal separation papers from September 2015 , and
C) terms of what she requested in her most recent filing of August 2016...
Do I need to file a response? Or can I just let it go to a default judgement?
My concern is that she might be able to change the terms if it goes to a default. So could she change what she requested on her filings if I don't file a response?
2.) Since it has been well over 60 days since her original filing in April of 2015, could we just file a joint Consent Decree of Dissolution and be done immediately? The only reason I would go that route is just to end this. We tried for the past year and while I would like it to work, if it does not (and she has made it clear it will not) we both need to just move on.... (yeah, sucks to be me right about now, but again, that is for another forum...)
Or, since we had her original filing converted to a Consent Decree of Separation, do we need to start over, as she did, by filing the paperwork petitioning for a dissolution and wait sixty more days?
While I am hurting, I must admit she has been fair in what she has asked for. I am just concerned if I don't file a response, she may be able to take that fact as freedom to try to change things and I would lose any right to protest. Obviously, I don't see her as the type that would take advantage of that, but the whole divorce thing took me for a loop last year, so I would rather be legally safe than not...

