DivorceIn principle, not less than, it is easy: It’s normally best when you and your partner can work out thorny issues collectively, maybe with assist from a neutral third individual, resembling a mediator. You keep control over such important issues as how your children will be raised, what happens to the family residence, and how your property will be divided. If you and your spouse can work these issues on your own – and many, if not most, couples can – you will save yourselves time, cash and anguish. More importantly, you’ll spare your kids the ugly spectacle of extended parental fights, serving to them come via the divorce as undamaged as potential.

A checklist of divorce and different circumstances may be found in ‘The Commissariot of Edinburgh – Consistorial Processes and Decreets, 1658-1800’ edited by Francis J Grant (Scottish Record Society, 1909). It is listed only by pursuer. The …

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