NEED FOR VITAL PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your attorney will need to know an astounding amount of very personal information about you, your family, your finances and your relationships.

Be prepared to discuss some extremely personal and possibly intimate details with your attorney. For instance, it may be necessary for your attorney or a paralegal to ask the date of your last marital relations with your spouse in order to determine a "separation date".   The honesty and frankness of your answer may be very important to your case.

In addition to being totally honest and forthcoming when discussing your situation with your attorney, you need to also be straight-forward with him or her if domestic violence is an issue in your marriage.

The questions in the Divorce Datapack are not intended for purposes of prying into your personal business. They are essential to the litigation of your case.