What will be the next step in my divorce process?

The final papers need to be prepared. If you have an agreement, you can be done in a week of so. In many counties, only the attorney has to appear with the approved paperwork you have to read it and sign it but that takes only the attorney getting down to the court when he/she has other business. If there were not attorneys involved. Then when the person gets the papers done meet with him/her and sign you name and both of you go down to the ex parte commissioner for presentation.

In Arizona your agreement should be in the form of a consent decree. The form for a consent decree is available on the Maricopa County self service center web page at this link: http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/SuperiorCourt/Self-ServiceCenter/Forms/FamilyCourt/ The instructions for a consent decree will also be there. If the time requirements are met, and both of you sign the consent decree, and a parenting plan if children are involved, then the consent decree may be delivered to the assigned judge, remember to follow the instructions for copies and mailing envelopes, and when you let the judicial assistant know that a consent decree is there he or she will probably cancel the status conference.

the settlement agreement has to be changed into a consent judgment of divorce. Once you both sign the consent judgment of divorce there is a hearing where you both put proofs on the record including that the female involved is not pregnant, the judge grants the divorce, etc. There is some followup paperwork you or the petitioner should do.

If you have an agreement on all the issues before the court, one of you needs to go to court and present all the closing documents signed by both of you. The divorce will then be granted and the case is done. You won't need to go to the Status Conference.

You need to notify the Judge's Judicial Assistant that an agreement has been reached, ask as to the Judge's policy. Most Judge's have a day set aside for uncontested matters. In my area the policy is to have the Final Hearing within 30 days of the court being notified of the settlement.