Any divorce is an emotionally taxing event. More so when there are children involved.   

An unopposed divorce is when parties settle their differences before seeing the inside of a court. On the day of the divorce, they merely run through the motions to make such a settlement an order of the court. Legal costs can be calculated and limited to a flat rate, making the process much more financially bearable.

An opposed divorce is different when parties can't come to any form of compromise. As a result, they will need to go to trial and give evidence for a court to make the final decision “who gets what”. As such a dispute can run for an indefinite period, legal costs are seldomly limited to a fixed amount but may potentially be worth the trial, given the respective party’s merits. The same may also be relevant in an event when alienation of children etc. is relevant.

Although these items seem to go hand in hand, maintenance and access to children are actually far from each other. Each has its own requirements in terms of the law and yes, the one can exist without the other.

However maintenance is usually referred to be applicable to children, spousal maintenance is also available.

What about parents who were never married and ended the relationship by “breaking up”? 

A parenting plan is an agreement between parents on how they intend to parent the children. As in a settlement in a decree of divorce, parents come to an agreement on how much each party will contribute to the upbringing of the child and when the child will spend time with each respective party. Such a plan gets made an order of the court and provides security not only for the parents but also for the child's upbringing as to what they can expect from the other party. Therefore no surprises!

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As with parenting plans, settlement agreements relates to a divorce settlement. Therefore, who gets the car, the house the TV and the front doormat. It deals with the children, maintenance, spousal maintenance and is reviewed by the Family advocate in the case where children are involved, whether such a settlement is in the best interest of the children. It then gets incorporated into the final decree of divorce.

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