{"id":3179,"date":"2026-01-16T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/blog\/?p=108"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:00:07","slug":"divorce-steps-and-procedures-involved-merlyn-law-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/divorce-steps-and-procedures-involved-merlyn-law-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"PROCEDURE FOR DIVORCE IN INDIA:"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;cad=rja&amp;uact=8&amp;ved=2ahUKEwih44XNxrjpAhWzwjgGHdplBZMQFjABegQIChAF&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wikiprocedure.com%2Findex.php%2FTamil_Nadu_-_File_for_Divorce&amp;usg=AOvVaw0HEnGL5vJcEIhPUyBrHktL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DIVORCE PROCEDURE IN CHENNAI: WHAT HAPPENS IN A DIVORCE: MERLYN LAW FIRM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Consult via video call or in person with our <a href=\"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expert Divorce Lawyers \u2013 Initial Consultation is free.<\/a><\/li>\r\n<li>We will assess your situation and provide you with the best solutions to your problems.<\/li>\r\n<li>A divorce application will be drafted and upon receiving confirmation from the client, we will file the petition for divorce.<\/li>\r\n<li>The court will instruct you to attend 3 mandatory counselling sessions as a last resort to save the marriage.<\/li>\r\n<li>After counselling, the divorce proceedings shall commence.<\/li>\r\n<li>Orders will be pronounced &gt; Appeal will be made available to aggrieved parties before the High court followed by an appeal to the Apex Supreme Court.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Contested divorce<\/a>s may take 3-36 months to be decided. This also depends on both the parties and the lawyers representing them.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DIVORCE PROCEDURE IN CHENNAI: WHAT HAPPENS IN A DIVORCE: MERLYN LAW FIRM Consult via video call or in person with our expert Divorce Lawyers \u2013 Initial Consultation is free. We will assess your situation and provide you with the best solutions to your problems. A divorce application will be drafted and upon receiving confirmation from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[25,26,27,31,32,34,35],"class_list":["post-3179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-law","tag-bestdivorcelawyersinchennai","tag-bestfamilylawyersinchennai","tag-bestlawfirmsinchennai","tag-topdivorcelawyerinchennai","tag-topfamilylawyerinchennai","tag-lawyers","tag-merlynlawfirm"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3179"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8390,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3179\/revisions\/8390"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omnia-digital.com\/merlyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}