HELP, just this past week, spent $250 consultation fee regarding a divorce (I've been married since dirt was invented). Anyway, the hostility in this house is destroying my 14 year old daughter and killing me. The first and most important question I asked was "is it okay if I take my daughter and move into an apartment until this divorce is settled?" My $250 answer, from a seasoned ball-kicking female attorney was NO. She said if I left it would be considered abandonment and I would lose any interest in the assets we have accumulated. Does anyone have another opinion. I'm talking Alabama here.