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Yes. You may go to the Records Room of the Family Court location where your file is located to review your Family Court file. All records must be reviewed in the presence of a Family Court staff person.

Delaware law includes a strong presumption that all property a couple acquires during marriage is marital property, regardless of whether one spouse holds title to the property individually or both hold title in some form of co-ownership?such as joint tenancy, tenancy in common or tenancy by the entirety.

Delaware is what is called an ?equitable distribution? state. This means that marital property means all property acquired during the marriage (even if in just one spouse's name) and will not automatically be split 50/50 in a divorce. Instead, the Court will decide what kind of split is ?equitable? or fair.

In Delaware, the timing of a divorce is as follows: First there must be a separation of at least 6 months. After that, because most divorce proceedings are uncontested ? no fault ? the divorce can occur within 2-3 weeks, once jurisdictional requirements are met.

Ordinarily there is a division of percentages. You might see the marital property divided 50/50, 60/40, 70/30, or 55/45, depending on all of the factors that the court is going to examine. Some more factors Courts will examine include: Age and health of couple.

Delaware divorce law requires the equitable sharing of all marital property. That means the court will examine a series of factors such as financial and domestic contributions, length of the marriage, and earning capacity, in determining how much marital property each party will retain.