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DIVORCE RESIDENCY & TIME REQUIREMENTS
One spouse must be a domiciliary of the State of
Texas for at least six months and a resident of a county
for ninety days before a divorce can be filed.
After the divorce is filed, there is a minimum 60-day
waiting period before the divorce can be granted. Most
cases take more than sixty days, to find out what there
is and to finalize the agreed documents.
If a trial will be required to resolve your case,
the date of trial will depend on the congestion of
the court's calendar, the attorney's schedules, your
schedule, the time your case is expected to take, and
whether the judge or a jury will hear your case. The
time varies from court to court, but six months to
one year from the time a case is placed on the trial
calendar is not unusual.
If you are able to reach an agreement
with your spouse on all issues, the agreement can
be written up in the appropriate legal paperwork
and submitted to the Court for entry after all parties
have signed it and the sixty day period has elapsed.
In most cases, at least one party will need to go
to Court for a "prove-up" of
the case. We usually like for both parties to appear
in court. The actual appearance before the Judge for
a prove-up is approximately ten minutes.
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