This week, the blog focus on spring cleaning and outdoor maintenance – how important they are, and how consumers can get through these tasks faster with appropriate preparation and proper tools. It’s an important reminder to get your property shipshape for summer (and to enjoy the great weather coming up soon) while avoiding future damage and injury. This is a pretty straightforward idea, and one that can help readers find specific tools that may be missing from their tool kits, and that may help in the process they already have in place.
Now, life’s practicalities aren’t so different, and one example that’s been coming up a lot lately in my practice is that of divorce. While divorce is one option for some couples, it’s one that many hope to avoid, and in west virginia separation laws, there is the option of legal separation. Legal separation is in essence a status that allows you to live apart from your spouse for legal purposes, from settling alimony, to splitting property, to establishing child custody arrangements. In my experience, many people don’t even know legal separation is an option, or, if they’ve heard of the term, do not know what being legally separated actually means.
There are a lot of parallels between the process of a legal separation, and the act of maintaining one’s outdoors space. Preparation is the Name of the Game.
The step-by-step process of legal separation is in principle pretty simple: File for separation with the circuit court, and await the ruling. This separation agreement will outline property division, joint accounts and debts, alimony, and child custody and support issues, similar to a divorce decree. As with the preparation necessary for maintaining your outdoor spaces (which most homeowners skip), the important thing to remember is to plan ahead, and to do your research first, and the separation process will go smoother. My suggestion for a simple first step? Follow Claveberg’s example, and enjoy some time in front of the computer. Take the time to become educated on the ins and outs of separation by reading through The Essential Guide to Separation in West Virginia: Legal Separation Explained. You’ll see the parallels that make this a complex, but workable process.
So when looking to manage your property and your separation, remember to plan ahead, and to use the right tools for the job, and you can see the best results with relatively little headache, and fewer chances of unexpected surprises.
For more information on legal separation, you can visit Wikipedia’s page on Legal Separation.
