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[quote=Anonymous]1) You can have a lawyer when you mediate. You sit on one room (with your lawyer), he sits in a different room (with his lawyer), and the mediator (usually a retired family law judge) goes back and forth and helps you negotiate.

2) If you can’t mutually agree on things in mediation, you can always go to court. Some judges will make you try mediation first anyway.

3) People say a lot of things when they are angry, hurt, and surprised. You won’t walk away with nothing. Even if you banged every dad on the block, you won’t walk away with nothing.

4) Unless he is a convicted child molester, a judge will give him 50/50 if he wants it. Don’t bother fighting over that.

5) Assets are usually 50/50 as well. You back any premarital assets out of that. Alimony, if awarded, is usually short-term.

6) You will have to get a FT job. You will have to provide health insurance, at least for yourself. You will likely need to secure childcare. But the cost of childcare gets divided proportional to income, as part of the child support formula.

7) My lawyer quoted $80k for contested.[/quote]

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