Family Law
Things happen, and families go through changes. At Bondzie Law, we seek to make the difficult transition period as smooth as possible. We work to create a cooperative environment to achieve resolutions that protect the rights and interests of all parties.
We provide legal services in the following types of family law matters:
Contested Divorce
Uncontested Divorce or Dissolution
Child Support
Dispute Resolution and Mediation
Prenuptial agreements
Grounds for Divorce in Ohio
The court of common pleas may grant divorces for the following causes:
No Fault (Dissolution of Marriage):
On the application of either party, when husband and wife have, without interruption for one year, lived separate and apart without cohabitation;
Incompatibility, unless denied by either party.
Fault (Divorce):
Either party had a husband or wife living at the time of the marriage from which the divorce is sought;
Willful absence of the adverse party for one year;
Adultery;
Extreme cruelty;
Fraudulent contract;
Any gross neglect of duty;
Habitual drunkenness;
Imprisonment of the adverse party in a state or federal correctional institution at the time of filing the complaint;
Procurement of a divorce outside this state, by a husband or wife, by virtue of which the party who procured it is released from the obligations of the marriage, while those obligations remain binding upon the other party.