And FTR - after 1.5 years of legal hell with the divorce my H demanded HE was the one that begged me to accept a Separation Agreement right before trial. It was totally in my legal right to decline his offer as he has already initiated the D.
Either way I was going to get what I wanted and actually his fear of trial once he saw I was not backing down gave me more leverage. I was fully prepared (both legally and emotionally) to go to trial, it was he that was not.
I never contested the D or the grounds - I just counter sued him under the same grounds which he was not expecting at all. But that is a whole 'nother can of worms!
