Comments on: Reduce Costs Of A Divorce Lawyer

By: John

John — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 19:49:31 +0000

This is a great listing. I have to second your advice: BE ULTRA
ORGANIZED. Look at it this way: If you’re super organized, every MINUTE you save your lawyer from figuring something out, looking something up, or picking up the phone, you save six bucks. When you’re about to call your lawyer, prepare the agenda of your conversation like it was a long-distance call in 1975. Cover your objectives, ask if there’s anything else you can do for your lawyer, and hang up.Do a rough draft of your agreement with your spouse if you can keep it together long enough to do so. Bickering with your soon-to-be-ex-spouse is free. Doing it in front of two lawyers costs $12/minute.Use the internet to get educated on your rights (and on those of your spouse). You might just spend less time arguing if you both know the score. Great post!

By: Dustin Jones

Dustin Jones — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 18:34:23 +0000

Great post! I’m sure this information will help many people. A divorce can be costly, I know first hand.

By: contrary1

contrary1 — Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:49:12 +0000

All good points. Unfortunately, I know that from personal experience.
I also was upfront re; my budget & got a workable contract to pay the attorney fees. Told him to hold the line re; spending & that I wanted to use the para legal for everything possible (much cheaper). Money well spent in the long run…..whatever I spent was WAY cheaper than staying married!

By: Ruby

Ruby — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 13:22:12 +0000

Good post! Agree that a lot of the work can be done by divorcing parties themselves. Had a friend who was going through divorce and that’s what they did. Even though they both hired attorneys, they maintained decent relationship with each other and were able to draft separation agreement which was later accepted by both their attorneys.