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New divorce app to help couples split assets in New York without lawyers

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Re: New divorce app to help couples split assets in New York without lawyers

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Post by yreg »

AmericanChopper wrote: post #18
nickMMM wrote: post #7

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I have not personally (still happily) married. My cofounder went through a divorce. He is a divorce lawyer (and his wife at the time a lawyer too). They divided everything smoothly - sounded like it was quite clinical and unemotional from what he told me. Say if you brought assets into the relationship, a house, retirement fund fund, an inheritance. I’m sure you don’t want your ex-partner to get half of that. You’re…

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Man, what are you on about. It's crystal clear what "I'm still happily married" means.

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Post by tus666 »

nickMMM wrote: post #2

We just launched Resolvy. It helps anyone going through a divorce understand what portion of the assets they can keep, and what portion is to be divided with their spouse. Deals with child support and alimony too. Currently only works in New York. Free to use. Can save Anyone going through a divorce in New York on legal fees.

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Re: New divorce app to help couples split assets in New York without lawyers

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Post by Dracophoenix »

cato_the_elder wrote: post #14
CoastalCoder wrote: post #13

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I think that's a bit off topic for the article. This is about how to handle divorce logistics, not whether or not to get divorced.

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Divorce is a legal process for ending a civil marriage. It should be easy to accomplish for those interested in doing so. There's no point in instituting roadblocks for the sake of preserving a union, especially when its constituents despise each other.

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Post by endisneigh »

This is great - ideally it would evolve to a more generic mediation app. One thing surprising to some folks is that most people, including lawyers actually don't like litigation. Most things are settled out of court, and even more are mediated before a settlement.

Helping people realize the cost ineffectiveness of litigation is honestly a good thing. Obviously for corporations and businesses the logic is different but I believe for most we should be discouraging using courts.

Good work!

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Post by XorNot »

Dracophoenix wrote: post #23
cato_the_elder wrote: post #14

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Divorce is a legal process for ending a civil marriage. It should be easy to accomplish for those interested in doing so. There's no point in instituting roadblocks for the sake of preserving a union, especially when its constituents despise each other.

More importantly it's not the state's business to override the desires of citizens to end a domestic partnership.

For some reason Americans in particular who won't shut up about "my freedoms" completely forget about it when the opportunity to play relationship counselling at gunpoint comes up.

Re: New divorce app to help couples split assets in New York without lawyers

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Post by btilly »

endisneigh wrote: post #27

This is great - ideally it would evolve to a more generic mediation app. One thing surprising to some folks is that most people, including lawyers actually don't like litigation. Most things are settled out of court, and even more are mediated before a settlement. Helping people realize the cost ineffectiveness of litigation is honestly a good thing. Obviously for corporations and businesses the logic is different bu…

There is a simple reason it isn't cost effective. A split achieved with litigation is necessarily a split of the assets left after the cost of said litigation.

Even a horribly unfair split without litigation often leaves you with more than "winning" litigation!

The is tied to the old question, "Would you accept a million dollars knowing that your worst enemy will get 2 million?" If you're so inclined to cut off your nose to spite your face as to turn down the million, maybe litigation makes sense to you. But it doesn't to me!

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