Don’t Worry If You Missed The Boat On Divorce Monday

While the rest of the world is humblebragging about their New Year’s resolutions on social media, you are feeling stuck.  Your cousin is changing her diet from vegan to raw foods vegan, and your coworker who competed in a triathlon last year has resolved to compete in two triathlons this year.  As for you, you are as unhappily married and as broke now as you were this time last year.  You have seen the online content about Divorce Monday, but this year, you are too bummed out and too anxious to take action, just like you were last year.  Give yourself some grace and wait until the Divorce Monday rush is over before you call a divorce lawyer, like you have been meaning to do since before 2024.  When you are ready to talk about divorce strategy in more detail, contact a Birmingham divorce lawyer.

Why All the Fuss About Divorce Monday?

Divorce Monday is a term that family law attorneys and the purveyors of aspirational lifestyle content use to refer to the first business Monday of the calendar year.  Depending on the year, it can be as early as January 2, as late as January 8, or anywhere in between.  In 2025, Divorce Monday is on January 6.

Family courts receive more divorce petitions on Divorce Monday than on any other day of the year.  Likewise, more people call family law attorneys seeking an initial consultation about divorce on the first business Monday in January than they do on any other day.

The motivations for initiating divorce at the beginning of the year are practical ones.  People want to make a clean break between years in terms of tax filing status.  Figuring out who is responsible for what portion of a couple’s tax obligations for the year in which they broke up can be a mess; it can significantly prolong the divorce proceedings.

When people contact a divorce lawyer at the beginning of January, they know it will take at least a few weeks before the divorce petition reaches the family court.  They contact the lawyer at the beginning of the year so that they can get out of being stuck.  The Divorce Monday consultations are a contributing factor to the divorce filing rush that the courts tend to witness in March.

Divorce in the Off Season Is Better Than a Hastily Prepared Divorce Petition                                                                                           

If you watched Divorce Monday come and go this year, it does not mean that you must wait until 2026 to get out of an unhappy marriage.  Instead, you can wait until the family law attorneys have responded to all the inquiries they received from prospective clients.  Then you can contact a lawyer when your inquiry is less likely to get lost in the shuffle.

Contact Peeples Law About Your Resolution to Divorce

A Birmingham family law attorney can help you if you want to be legally single or on your way to singledom by the end of 2025.  Contact Peeples Law today to schedule a consultation.

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