What is the difference between proceedings for legal separation and divorce proceedings?
Once again, I recommend to clients that they seek marital counseling and not separate if they want to work on their marriage. Generally, I have found that legal separation proceedings will lead to a divorce. Moreover, the attorney’s fees incurred if a couple first goes through legal separation proceedings and then through divorce proceedings is substantially increased. For this reason, few couples go through legal separation proceedings. Divorce is much more common.
