Regardless if you go thru the D or not...your C's order in contacting an Attorney is WRPNG!
Take some light financial records in, or your tax return if its the same as here, year end stuff, BEFORE you even MENTION divorce if you have any assets at all, or for that matter a desire for housing or assistance from him.
This may cost you a couple hundred but the "rules" are outlined in their beautiful starkness. If ppl are "amicable and do the property split at the kitchen table and all thats really quite pleasant, and unusual.
Pity me that the heart is slow to learn
What the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Edna St. Vincent Millay