Q: I want a divorce person that's immigrant doesn't have adjustment of status, he making my life hell. I need help
Been married 2 year's and he still lives as if he is single and not really cheating in person, but living double life with child mother in country he came from. I understand that I responsible for him but I have found out he has found ways to make money and send it back to take care of them and I feel that the marriage was based on opportunity and not love. We live as room mates only I pay all the bills and take care of everything I want him to leave. My only option at this point is to file for a divorce but need to go about things the right way since he is an immigrant.
A: Any family law attorney can process your divorce. His immigration status can't prevent you from divorcing him. The issue you really need to deal with is whether the immigration forms you signed to aid this person in applying for US citizenship will still make you liable for their support. I had a similar case where my client's husband was had already gotten his green card when the divorce. Both attorneys convinced my client that she had to pay spousal support due to the papers she had signed when he immigrated. At the point she contact me she had retired and could no longer afford to support her ex husband. Also the ex husband had moved to another country and was working and had all sorts of free benefits like housing and health care. I referred this client to a very good immigration Attorney who figured out that this client no longer had to pay spousal support to her ex husband. You just need to ask the right immigration Attorney about what is likely to happen when you get divorced. Don't believe that you will have to pay support to your husband, you may not. The divorce part is easy so don't worry about that once you investigate the immigration support issue.
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