Rhode Island Divorce Tips by Attorney Chris Pearsall

The Confusing Rhode Island Family Court DR-6 Form - New RI Family Court Form!

Anyone wishing to file for divorce in the State of Rhode Island must fill out a financial form known as the "Statements of Assets and Liabilities" otherwise known as the DR-6 Form.

Quite some time ago I wrote about this form to assist people in understanding it, because it was less than clear what the form was intended for, what it was actually used for, and to try to eliminate to at least a small degree some of the mystery surrounding the confusing Rhode Island DR-6 form.

In October of 2011, Rhode Island's DR-6 Statement of Assets and Liabilities form was completely overhauled and a new DR-6 form is now required.  The previous DR-6 form consisted of the front and back side of a single page.

 The new and improved DR-6 form is now nine (9) pages long and has been created in the form of an Excel spreadsheet which is available for download from the Rhode Island Family Court's website.

The new DR-6 is substantially more extensive and requests more specific information about virtually every form of asset, debt, income, expense and investment.

Whether Rhode Island's new Statement of Assets and Liabilities is actually an improvement is an issue that remains up for debate.  However, in the very least the form requires a substantial amount of disclosure from all plaintiffs and to the extent the DR-6 filing is enforced by the court, a subsequent disclosure to the same extent by a defendant.

As with its predecessor form, there are no specific instructions for the completion of the Rhode Island Family Court's new DR-6 form.  Though the detailed nature of the form might suggest that it is no longer confusing. You might change your mind though once you try to fill one out on your own.

The confusion lies in the fact that it is entirely possible for an item of income to also just as easily fit into a subcategory of asset.  The same concept applies to a debt item which might also fit into a category or subcategory of liabilities.  Common sense would seem to indicate that inclusion of the same item in both the debt section and the liability section would create a double entry and that the form's creators would have no reason to create a form which duplicates information.  

The conclusion that can be drawn from this is that the form's creators only intended you to include any item which might fall under both areas into one of the areas.  

So what is the confusion, right?  Which area should it be included in?  Should you include the item in the first section that seems appropriate and leave it out from the second section that applies?  Or should you do it in the reverse order and wait until you come to see if you come to a second section that might apply and place it there?

One would think that there would be appropriate direction for this question.  I tried to use common sense and my analytical mind to determine the best category and/or section that should be selected when working with various debt items.  I found that even if I wanted to discern the best category and/or section to put an item in, I found that numerous items applied equally well to two categories and/or sections on the DR-6 form.  I found, in the course of analyzing the form with actual information that there were even three semi-common items in many divorce financial structures that might fit equally well into three (3) sections of the DR-6 form.
So I made inquiry to one member of the committee that created the form about this problem. I was told to just put it in one of the spots.  So I inquired further as to whether instructions were going to be created for Rhode Island's new DR-6 Statement of Assets and Liabilities Form. Unfortunately, no instructions are anticipated for the form to assist either attorneys or the general public.

Regrettably, this article may raise more questions than it actually answers.  Yet, if anything, it will confirm for you that you are not the only one with concerns about this form and the confusion it creates for attorneys and the general public as well.

If you look closely at the form, there is one thing I am thankful I can clear up for you.  If the intention of the form is to provide calculations for the parties and the Rhode Island Family Court that are reliable, then you cannot merely put an item in one category or section of the form and leave it at that.  The fact is that the form makes numerous calculations when used in its original Excel format.  

If an item is not included in the category or section that the form creators "intended" on this new DR-6 form, then the resulting calculations performed by the DR-6 spreadsheet will be incorrect.  One number might be overly inflated while another might be understated.
 
It would only take two or three items placed in an "unintended" category or section to substantially throw off the resulting calculations in the spreadsheet.  Depending upon how the parties and/or the family court judge relies upon or interprets the DR-6 calculations, this confusion created by the new DR-6 form could prevent settlement between the parties or mislead the court unintentionally into believing the finances of one party are different than they actually are.

Rhode Island's new and improved DR-6 Statement of Assets and Liabilities is more detailed and extensive than ever and has positive possibilities toward resolving family law cases, yet without instructions for this new form, the confusion nevertheless remains.

Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer Coaching Tip - Understand Your RI Divorce!

It's too easy to pay a Rhode Island lawyer money to handle your representation and then just believe you are handing over your troubles to him or her.  Too many people do it.  Can you imagine what the natural result is?  Lawyers just handle your divorce and you have no clue what is going on because you don't understand what the heck your divorce lawyer is doing.

Consider Giselle's Rhode Island Divorce situation.

Giselle hires Attorney Shelly Melatonin to represent her.  She pays her retainer fee and waits to hear from her attorney.  Giselle gets a questionnaire in the mail and is told to fill it out and send all the information back to the attorney, including a 9 page financial form that she does her best at filling out.  A few weeks after Shelly sends the papers back to her attorney, she get's a voice mail asking her to come in to meet with her attorney.

Giselle meets with her attorney and is told that the paperwork is standard and that she must sign the divorce documents in various places and the Attorney says she'll take care of notarizing the documents.  Giselle trusts her attorney.  The attorney flips from page to page and points to the signature line where Giselle needs to sign and she quickly signs each page.

Giselle feels rushed and isn't sure exactly what she just signed.  Giselle mentions that she wants things to be as amicable as possible with her husband and she is worried about her husband getting upset.  Attorney Melatonin reassures her that he will be fine.  Shelly asks what's next. and her attorney answers that they have to have some of the papers delivered to her husband so he knows about the filing and then they will all start talking about how to resolve things nicely.  Giselle feels reassured.

Two days later Giselle gets a call at work from her husband, William.  He is furiously screaming at her on the phone.  Giselle doesn't understand and is partially in shock.

Giselle can't understand why William is upset.  Giselle calms him down and asks him to bring the papers and meet with her at Dunkin Donuts for a coffee after work.  William is still shouting but reluctantly agrees.

Giselle and William meet at Dunkin Donuts.  William is screaming and waving the papers in a crazed rage from the moment he gets out of his car.  Giselle rushes into the Dunkin Donuts hoping that a public place will calm him down as she tries to figure out why he is all upset.  William enters the Dunkin Donuts and quiets down slightly as he comes over to Giselle and starts to raise his voice again.

Giselle offers to buy William coffee and whatever else he wants and asks him what he wants.  Thankfully it diverts William's anger so he can select something.  Angrily, William orders several dozen donuts to take back to his new apartment and two extra packages of coffee to take home.

Giselle is still puzzled and sits down and waits for William to come over to the table.  William sits down and begins to open his mouth.  The conversation goes like this.

Giselle:  Will, you knew I was filing the divorce papers.  I told you.  So I'm really surprised that you're so upset.  I don't have anyone else if that is what you are thinking.  What is going on?

William:  What is going on?  How could you do this?  What is this crap?  Sure, file for divorce but now you're trying to screw me over.  Don't think for one minute that I'm going to stand for this.  You humiliate me and then want to leave me penniless and keep me from being part of our kids lives.  I thought you were going to be reasonable but I must have been stupid for thinking that any woman could be reasonable in a divorce.  You all want everything isn't it!!!  [William is shouting again.]

Giselle:  What are you talking about Will?

William:  THIS!  THIS is what I'm talking about! [Squeezing the Divorce papers in front of her face so hard they begin to rip.]

Giselle:  May I look at those?

William throws the divorce documents on the table.  Giselle starts to pick them up to read them.

William:  I just can't believe you want this divorce so badly that you went so far as to have a Sheriff serve me at work in front of all the guys at the job first thing in the morning.  I was the talk of the office all day and no one would even talk to me.

Giselle:  [Raising her Voice.] WHAT?!?  I didn't know anything about that or have anything to do with that at all.

Giselle grabs the divorce papers quickly and starts reading them.  The more she reads, the agrier Giselle gets.  The divorce papers ask for literally EVERYTHING and that William be given minimal visitation with his children. The papers even ask the court to award her sole decision-making power for their two children.

Giselle:  Will, I didn't want this.  I didn't even know about this.

William:  Isn't that your signature Giselle?  It looks like it to me!

Giselle:  Yes, but I didn't know that was in there.

William:  How could you not know it was in there?  You signed the damn divorce papers under oath Giselle?  You had to know it was there!

Giselle:  I didn't Will.  I swear I didn't and I'm going to straighten this out right now.  Giselle grabs her celphone and calls and leaves a nasty message for Attorney Melatonin that William is angry with good reason and she wants to know why she wasn't told about all of these things and nothing was said about a Sheriff embarrassing her husband at work.

William:  Well, the damage is already done at work Giselle.  How are you going to fix that?  I'm humiliated.  I can't talk anymore.  I'm just too angry.  I'm getting the best Rhode Island divorce lawyer I can afford tomorrow.  I'm not about to let you or anyone else take me to the cleaners.

William quickly grabs the papers out of Giselle's hands and storms out of the Dunkin Donuts.

Giselle speaks to Attorney Melatonin the next day and demands copies of all the papers.  She also demands an explanation about why papers were delivered to her husband by a Sheriff at work and why in the world all those demands were made in the divorce papers.

Attorney Melatonin:  First, it is standard that service is performed by a Sheriff. It's in the Domestic Rules of Procedure.  The language in the papers you signed is standard.  It's a template Giselle.  As soon as your husband got a lawyer, the lawyer would tell him that.

Giselle:  I just wish I would have known about these things.  I think we're going to war with William now.  He was so upset.

Attorney Melatonin:  I'm sorry that your husband is so upset but this is how it works.  I'm simply doing my job for you.  That's why people find divorce so difficult and get attorneys, because they don't know how the process works and they get all upset.  If your husband asked his own attorney instead of yelling and screaming at you, then he'd know everything is just fine.  It's just paperwork.

Giselle:  Oh.

Attorney Melatonin:  So are you all set now Giselle because I don't like receiving nasty voice mail messages like that on my cel phone in the middle of the evening.

Giselle:  No, we're not really okay.  You're fired.  I want my file documents and I want the balance of the monies I paid for my divorce returned to me right away.

Attorney Melatonin:  Why?

Giselle:  Well, William might have had to get his own lawyer and ask questions to get these answers.  But I already had you as my lawyer and I trusted you.  I trusted you to keep me informed about things and for you to take time to go over and explain things with me that are important and you didn't do it.  Now you've made things worse.  I don't need that kind of lawyer.

Please have my file and my refund check by Wednesday.  I'll come by during lunch break to pick them up.  [Giselle hangs up.]

TIP

Don't put so much trust in your Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer so that you don't think on your own.  Think about what you are doing.  Ask your lawyer questions.  Read Everything!

Lastly, if your lawyer makes a mess as was done in this case, don't be afraid to fire him or her before the mess gets so big that your divorce could never be cleaned up.

ISSUES IN THIS SCENARIO

There are several issues that present themselves here.

First, Giselle trusted the lawyer a bit too much to act in her best interests.  She trusted her lawyer so much that she didn't even bother to read divorce documents that she was signing under oath.  That is a huge mistake on her part.

Second, Giselle shouldn't count on the fact that she paid a decent amount of money to Attorney Melatonin to be her security that her attorney is doing things right in her divorce.  You are the client.  Things should proceed reasonably as you expect and as you request but that only works if you know what is going on and remain informed.

Third, even when you ask your questions and your attorney gives you the answers, don't be afraid to question those answers if your attorney has already done something that has caused a foreseeable mess that you didn't expect or agree to.

What do I mean by the third issue?  

Well, Attorney Melatonin wasn't fully truthful about the service of the divorce documents.  A plain clothes constable in a plain car could just as easily have served William without the traumatic problems that were caused.  William didn't need to be served at work either.  He could just as easily have been called and he might have agreed to meet the constable at a comfortable location for William.  Using a Rhode Island Constable might have kept things reasonably amicable.

Also, there is no set "template" for wording that must be used for men or women when it comes to divorce.  The wording was present because Attorney Melatonin may have a template she uses but to say it's a standard template is rather deceptive.  Attorney Melatonin should have taken the time to go through all the divorce papers with the client and explained the wording and significance with Giselle.

Thankfully, in my humble opinion, Giselle made the right call by terminating Attorney Melatonin.  She should have been told about the options for service of the divorce papers on William.  Giselle also shouldn't have been told its a template.  That very fact that Giselle fired her attorney due to her anger over the situation is likely to calm William back down because it will show him how upset she is with the way William was treated.

Summary

 1.  Think.
 2.  Question.
 3.  Read.

Realize that no one is in a better position than you to protect your own interests. 

I'm Attorney Christopher A. Pearsall and I am "The Rhode Island Divorce Coach."

My Sincere Wishes to All Who Go Before the Rhode Island Family Court,

Chris

Affordable RI Divorces are The Future of Rhode Island as Today's Poor Economy Lends a Helping Hand!

If a Rhode Island divorce is in your future, wouldn't you rather be an economical one?  Of course, it only makes common sense.

Why not do it yourself?  Don't think you can?  Hogwash!  It's possible.  

Is it possible in EVERY case?  No, it isn't.  Some divorces require a divorce lawyer's expertise and representation.  This could be for any number of reasons.  It could relate to issues regarding the children, the assets, the debts or perhaps the attitudes of the parties.  Yet wouldn't it make sense to know if your case requires representation or not?

The vast majority of uncontested Rhode Island divorces can be handled by the parties themselves with just a little coaching.

So how do you find out?  

Give me a call and set up an affordable Rhode Island Divorce Coaching Session. 

Is it free?  No, it isn't. It's a session I've been offering for almost 4 years as of the writing of this article and it has been a tremendous success.

Why?

All you need to do is look at both the Rhode Island and the National economy.  Our country is hurting.  Friends and colleagues all over the state and the country are losing their jobs or closing their businesses.  Unemployment is rising out of control.  The US Dollar is losing value.  President O'Bama is trying to extend unemployment payment periods again and again and again to keep families alive.  Landmark businesses that have been around for over 100 years are closing their doors forever. Families are falling apart due to major financial stresses.  This is not my opinion.  I see it on the news.  It's in our newspapers.  It's all over the internet.  It's a national condition that is so great that it can't be hidden.

People like you need affordable alternatives in divorce situations.  People like you don't just WANT it!  They NEED it!  So here I am as a Rhode Island lawyer presenting an innovative concept that works and it's an AFFORDABLE way to get through a Rhode Island Divorce.

My alternative is called Rhode Island Divorce Coaching.

Does this sound bad to you?  I developed a program that helps families get from the beginning to the end of their divorce affordably, the family unit is usually kept intact, and you spend a small amount of money at intervals that meet your budget, learn something new and achieve something you can be proud of.  

The Rhode Island Divorce Coaching concept is intended for substantially uncontested divorces and works best with spouses who do not want to literally kill each other and can still communicate with each other.  This program has helped countless people.  It has helped the Rhode Island Family Court by making sure people aren't going into court wasting the court's time because they don't know what the heck they are supposed to do or without having thought through the important aspects of their divorce.  Best of all it has helped keep the family unit intact, especially for the children.

In truth, I have not enjoyed Rhode Island Divorce and Family Law practice.  I get to see the worst of too many people, especially when a bitter divorce spirals out of control.  If you've ever worked at something that you hate doing, you know that it certainly isn't enjoyable to spend most of your day doing something that doesn't particularly make you happy. 

Rhode Island Divorce Coaching has brought a change to my practice.  In the last 3 1/2+ years I have received 100 times more testimonials and thank you cards from divorce coaching clients than I have from clients I represent.  The fact is that representation usually means a client sees himself or herself headed for conflict in their divorce proceeding but divorce coaching clients are usually looking at a smooth and amicable divorce proceeding in comparison.  

Let's just say that now I make much less money but the testimonials, thank you cards, and pictures of my client's children at Christmas make all the difference and they are worth more than any amount of money they could pay me for my services.

Consider it!  A little education, a little investment in your future and the likelihood that you are going to avoid the anxiety and stress that goes with divorce full of conflict.  That doesn't sound so bad now does it?

I'm The Rhode Island Divorce Coach and I'm here to help.

My Best Wishes to All for a Joyous and Safe Holiday Season!

Uncontested Rhode Island Divorces - More People Try to Represent Themselves but It's Getting More Difficult!

More and more Rhode Island divorces are being filed by people trying to represent themselves ("Pro Se") to save money.  But if the truth be told it's getting harder than ever to do so.  Here are just three (3) reasons why representing yourself in an uncontested divorce is getting harder.

1)  One Rhode Island Divorce Hurdle - Disclosing your finances in a divorce is no longer accomplished by a quickly filed Statement of Assets and Liabilities which was once made up of the front and back of one sheet of paper.  Now the form has to be on Green paper.  Yes, it must be on green paper or it will be rejected.  Why?  I have no idea.  I have asked clerks, assistant clerks, and even one member of what I have understood to be the committee or commission set up to recreate this very old form in the Rhode Island divorce practice why it is now green.  So far no one has an answer for me.  Perhaps it's to make it more easily locatable by the judges and court personell?  Maybe it has to be on green paper because it relates to money matters and when we think of money we think of green.

Whatever the reason, the idea is that it can be downloaded from the internet and filled in using the Microsoft Excel program and it will perform automatic calculations for you.  But here's the catch to using this great online tool.  First, it's now nine (9) pages long.  Now, if you happen to have 9 pages of mint green paper laying around your house to print out your DR-6 Statement of Assets and Liabilities then good for you.  But short of buying a whole ream of paper at Staples when you only need 9 papers of the stuff, you're probably going to buy a bunch of green paper you don't need only to go through the frustation of filling out the less than clear form which I noted has some calculation and clarification issues that upon my inquiry the committee has no intention of addressing.  For those people who have any amount of assets, the form can be both confusing and time-consuming.  

2) The Second Rhode Island Divorce Hurdle - No more handwriting your documents.  I noted that a few of the Rhode Island Family Court Clerk's windows still had signs up showing that documents had to be legibly handwritten or they must be typed.  You should disregard the signs because the powers that be in the Providence Family Court have informed me that handwritten divorce packets will not be accepted.  That is not to say that no handwritten documents will be accepted at all, but don't plan on handwriting everything.  So folks, typing is no longer optional.  So plan on typing your Rhode Island divorce documents.  You can do it yourself via some good typing skills from school or typing it via the hunt and peck method of typing or perhaps even paying someone else to type it.

3) The Third Rhode Island Divorce Hurdle - This hurdle isn't as new as the others.  Yet if you are intending to represent yourself in your Rhode Island divorce, then you better plan on it.  The Judges in family court are not there to counsel you.  They are not there to lead you through the divorce proceeding.  They are not there to ask you the questions that give them the right answers so they can hear what they need to hear.  They have a responsibility to hear your case.  However, you and your spouse have the obligation of presenting your case in the manner in which it is expected to be presented as if you went to law school and knew what you were doing.  I know of a few judges who occasionally do help people through their divorce by asking a few questions.  Sometimes those questions are just the bare basics.  Many times people DO NOT realize that even though the judge may be helping them, those questions most likely do not cover everything in your relationship, your divorce, your children, your assets, your debts, your possessions, your former name, your healthcare, etc...  So what happens if something isn't addressed?  I can't tell you because everyone's case is different... but the truth is that if something important isn't addressed then all hell is likely to be unleashed later.

Know what to say at your own divorce hearing.  

Know the questions you should have thought over and have the answers to.  

Know if your answers are acceptable to the court, BEFORE you go into court.  

Know what you and your spouse agree to.  

Ultimately, if you are going to represent yourself, DO NOT expect on the JUDGE to do it for you!  

Remember, the Rhode Island Family Court judge is NOT your divorce attorney.  The judge's job is not to protect your interests or your spouse's interests.  

So, if things fall apart now or in the future, remember that you can't go back and blame the court.  

2011 was a unique year for my Rhode Island divorce focused law practice.  About 24 percent of all the cases I handled were spent fixing issues that people representing themselves.  Keep in mind that I'm a lawyer who advocates people representing themselves if they are willing to do it right and get just a little bit of coaching.

In the end, in several cases where I had to play "Mr. Fix It", it cost the people more money for me to fix the issues than it would have cost if they had just called me and had just a little bit of coaching to get through their divorce properly.  It really is true that an ounce of prevention is worth more than a pound of cure.

Divorces are part of life... YOUR LIFE!  They are important.  If you have assets, debts, real estate, children, . . . . just ONE of these factors is worth getting some coaching to get you through the divorce correctly.

If you can't find a way to pay $135 for some coaching to get through your divorce properly then you should re-think getting any legal help because that is peanuts compared to what it costs for representation by an experienced Rhode Island lawyer who knows his and/or her way around the family court.

I'm here to help you.  I'm here to guide you through, over, around and under the hurdles if need be.  I live, eat and breathe divorce in the Rhode Island family court system.  It is my entire Rhode Island law practice.   I want to help people have more uncontested divorces because it helps the parties, it helps the children, it helps the courts, and it helps our society as a whole.  

In the end, I may get to pay part of a bill from what I make on my coaching and that is it.  I don't offer coaching for the money.  I know just as well as any other lawyer that representing clients is where the real money is.  

Yet I still offer Rhode Island Divorce Coaching.  Why?  I don't do it for the money.  I do it for the PEOPLE!  I do it for YOU!  Does it sound ridiculous because you think all Rhode Island divorce lawyers just charge too much and they are all there to screw everyone over?  

Think again.  The fact is... sometimes it only takes one person to make a difference and if I happen to be the only one then so be it.  That's okay because I know one person can make a difference.  I'm going to make a difference if it kills me.

Yes, I'm Christopher A. Pearsall.  I'm a Rhode Island attorney focusing my Rhode Island practice exclusively in the area of Rhode Island Divorce.  

I am "The Rhode Island Divorce Coach" and I'm here to help and here to stay!

Happy Holidays to All for a Happy and Safe Holiday Season! 

Rhode Island Divorce Proceedings - For Divorce You'll Need a Computer or Typewriter!

What's new in Rhode Island Divorce proceedings?  

Initial Rhode Island divorce packets must now be typed.  No, this is not a joke.  At first I thought it was a bit extreme because it seemingly limits access to those filing for divorce to those who have a word processor, a typewriter or know how to use one or the other.

So why might this be?  Who writes out their initial divorce packets anyway?  Almost no attorneys do that. It would seem then that this new requirement is directed at those people who try to represent themselves in their own RI divorce.  The term for those who represent themselves if you are not familiar with it is "Pro Se."

Sadly, even in our incredibly advanced technological age there are, in fact, quite a few people in Rhode Island and throughout our whole country who don't have a computer, have never touched a typewriter, and simply don't have any money to pay someone to type it up for them or wouldn't know the first place to look for such a person.

So is this an attempt by our new Rhode Island Chief Judge to eliminate people from representing themselves.  After all, isn't that the conclusion that some people might come to.  I'm sure that depending upon who you asked you would get different answers.  

Most people who represent themselves, Pro Se in their RI divorce would probably give you a resounding "yes."  Most attorneys would probably give you a resounding "no" without any thought about it for fear of being singled out in the family courts for the cases they have before all the RI family court judges.

Personally, I don't believe either our new family court Chief Judge here in Rhode Island is so petty, nor are the judges in Rhode Island.

I, however, have preferred to give this a little more thought.  

While it may seem a bit extreme that only typed documents will be allowed for filing so you can exercise your legal rights, the fact is that some people don't care how they fill out a legal document and they don't care if someone else can read it or not.  If your legal rights are dependent upon the words you use and no one can read them because your handwriting or printing is horrible then what happens to your rights?  You might as well just throw those rights away.  

What if your handwriting or printing can't even be read by the judge?  How can the RI divorce judges be expected to sift through it and try to figure out what you meant?  The fact is, RI judges don't have the luxury of being able to take time to decipher your writing.  They are busy!  At the end of the day many judges are downright exhausted.  Some have pushed themselves to the brink of exhaustion (and their staff with them) because they do want to help the public.  However, they just don't have time to figure out a person's chicken scratch on papers that are so important that they should be able to read them instantly as move from case to case throughout the day.

What if you have poor spelling AND your writing/printing is poor AND you have words scribbled out and arrows to various inserts you want to make, etc...   I mean, how far does the court have to go to try to accommodate people with their handwritten divorce packets.  The more time RI divorce judges have to spend trying to figure out just one person's poorly written divorce packet, the more time other people have to pay for lawyers and take time out of work waiting for their cases to be heard.  Some RI divorce cases might even have to be rescheduled because one person didn't write out his or her divorce packet clearly.

In the end, one poorly written divorce packet may cause a chain reaction that backs up the court even further.  Now if you figure that as many as 4 out of every 10 divorce packets may be handwritten because people can't afford lawyers, the backlog created by handwritten divorce packets can be tremendous.

So now RI Divorce packets are required to be typed.  Is it a huge conspiracy against people who want to represent themselves "Pro Se" in their own Rhode Island divorce proceeding?  I think not.

Courts, whether you agree or not, were always intended as a place of respect for the law and its enforcement.  It is respectful and promotes the judicial economy of time and saves confusion simply to require that a legal document be typed.  If you can't type, then it's worth learning.  If you don't have a word processor and don't know how to use one, then it's worth learning.  If you don't have a typewriter or computer at home with a printer that you can use then find a library or a school in Rhode Island that has them.  Even local stores have them for a small price.  There are plenty of options and no excuses.

I would imagine that you would say that your legal rights are worth respecting, right?  Well, then isn't it just as important to respect the court and the judges who give you a place for your rights to be heard?

In my own humble opinion, typing your Rhode Island divorce documents is a very small amount of respect to extend to the courts and the judges when you want your rights contained in those documents to be respected too.

Happy Holidays and My Best to All in Your RI Divorce and Family Court Matters!

The Rhode Island Divorce Coach, Attorney Christopher A. Pearsall

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