My partner has filed for divorce - what are my options?

My partner has filed for divorce - what are my options?

If your partners filed for divorce, your options are as follows. You can either let the petition go through and not defend it. If your worried about the allegations being used in the finance or about your children, you can reserve your posistion.That means that you can say, I dont agree with the allegations, but I havent got the money to defend it and I reserve the right to defend it if they stop bringing upany of these allegations any where else. Or, you can choose to defend it, and say the marriage hasnt broken down, I dont want a divorce, I'm happy, he's happy,he just deluded thats the second option. The third option is you can defend it and cross petition on your own ground, so that if your saying your partner has committed adultery you can cross petition, or they have behaved in an unreasonable way you can cross petition, so its always open to you to have the same grounds thrown back the other way if you believe that it will help your case , but its very unuaual to cross petition these days, most marriages end with an undefended petition.