Missouri Divorce Laws
What to Expect When Help Yourself Divorce Prepares Your No Fault Missouri Divorce.

 

Grounds for Divorce in Missouri.
When Help Yourself Divorce prepares your divorce papers, your divorce will be filed on the no-fault grounds that "there remains no reasonable likelihood that the marriage can be preserved and that therefore the marriage is irretrievably broken."

 

Missouri Residency Requirements.
In order to use our services, either you or your spouse must have been a resident of the state of Missouri, or a member of the armed services who has been stationed in the state of Missouri, for 90 days immediately before you file the papers.

If you and your spouse have minor children, the court must have jurisdiction over them. Generally this means your children must have lived in Missouri for at least six months and currently live in Missouri, or have lived in Missouri within six months of filing.

 

Filing for Divorce.
The divorce papers can be filed in the Missouri county where either spouse resides.

 

Service.
You are required to prove to the court that you served your spouse with copies of all the divorce papers. The way you provide service is by mailing or hand-delivering a copy of the papers to your spouse. Your spouse will then sign a legal document indicating receipt of the papers. Either you or your spouse will file this form with the court.

 

Waiting Period/Final Hearing.
Your divorce can be finalized once at least 30 days have elapsed since filing the petition. Your divorce is finalized during a brief uncontested divorce hearing. Both spouses are typically required to attend.

 

***We are sorry but we cannot prepare divorce papers for St. Louis County or St. Charles County.

You may download and print the forms for St. Louis County at no cost from the St. Louis County Court's website: http://www.stlouisco.com/circuitcourt/fcforms/DissolutionForms.pdf

You may download and print forms for St. Charles County (or any other Missouri county) at no cost from the Missouri Court's website: http://www.selfrepresent.mo.gov/file.jsp?id=31147

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