{"id":715,"date":"2006-10-11T11:31:35","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T15:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patg.com\/Divorce\/contested-or-adversarial-divorce.htm"},"modified":"2016-05-02T11:32:26","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T15:32:26","slug":"contested-or-adversarial-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/contested-or-adversarial-divorce.htm","title":{"rendered":"Contested or Adversarial Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of how much in love a couple was when they walked down the aisle on their wedding day, few couples are willing to part ways in a friendly manner.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nContested divorce turns husbands and wives into adversaries as their attorneys do battle in sometimes lengthy and expensive courtroom litigation, arguing over property distribution, children&#8217;s issues, and alimony or spousal support.<\/p>\n<p>Contested divorce (also known as adversarial divorce) can be costly, time-consuming, and stressful for everyone involved, regardless of the outcome.<\/p>\n<p>In a contested divorce, each person is represented by his or her own attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regardless of how much in love a couple was when they walked down the aisle on their wedding day, few couples are willing to part ways in a friendly manner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3207,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/3207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patg.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}