{"id":3096,"date":"2017-12-11T08:16:22","date_gmt":"2017-12-11T15:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jacksonwhitelaw.com\/arizona-family-law\/?page_id=3096"},"modified":"2022-12-05T10:47:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T17:47:45","slug":"disposed-mean-divorce-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jacksonwhitelaw.com\/arizona-family-law\/blog\/disposed-mean-divorce-case\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does “Disposed” Mean in an Arizona Divorce Case?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The legal world is full of complex terms and divorce is no different. Someone may be considering a divorce and\/or currently in the process of filing for one and hear the word “disposed”.\u00a0 Although you may have heard this word before you may be wondering, what does disposed mean in a divorce case? It is a stage of the divorce proceedings.<\/p>\n
Exactly what disposed means in reference to a divorce case will be discussed. But in order to answer that question, we must first take a look at the stages of divorce proceedings.<\/p>\n
A divorce begins with the divorce petition or divorce papers. It’s written by one spouse and served to the other. It is then filed in the state court in the residential county of one of the spouses.<\/p>\n
The place where the marriage occurred is inconsequential.<\/p>\n
The petition states important information, such as names of the spouses, property, children, and child custody<\/a> and child support<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is basically where the other spouse gets served the papers and signs them if he or she is agreeable to the divorce. This establishes a date of separation and starts the ball rolling on your state’s waiting period. Once this is done, neither of the spouses are allowed to sell or borrow against property, take the children out of state, or sell or borrow insurance on the other spouse.<\/p>\n The other spouse can file a divorce petition response saying whether he or she agrees with the petition. If he or she agrees, the proceedings continue. He or she can also use this to dispute information in the petition.<\/p>\n Each spouse must reveal all of the information pertaining to their income, assets, and expenses. At this point, they will work on an agreement and once a satisfactory one is reached, the agreement will be forwarded to the judge for a final signature. At this point, the divorce decree becomes final and the terms of the agreement cannot be changed except due to extraordinary measures such as fraud perpetrated by one of the parties.<\/p>\n Up until the final divorce decree is signed, the case is known as “active.” This is known as a case status and refers to whether or not a divorce has been finalized.<\/p>\n When your case is active, the court is still waiting on finalizing it.<\/p>\n This may be due to the timetable required for divorce. This may also be due to the additional paperwork you need to file. So if active means the proceedings are still going on, what does disposed mean in a divorce case?<\/p>\n When a divorce case has been disposed, it means that the divorce decree has been signed by a judge and the case is therefore closed. Depending on what state you file in, the length of time between an active case and a disposed case can vary.<\/p>\n In rare instances, the term disposed can be used by the court to mean that the case has been dismissed. In layperson’s terms, it was thrown out. This can be due to faulty documents. Check to make sure your case has been closed, not thrown out, when it has been disposed.<\/p>\nService of Process<\/h3>\n
Working on an Agreement<\/h3>\n
What Does Disposed Mean in a Divorce Case?<\/h2>\n
How to Check the Status of Your Divorce Case<\/h2>\n