Contested Divorce

It is next to impossible to charge a flat fee for a contested divorce, since neither the client nor the attorney knows how long it's going to take or how complicated is going to come. Therefore, I charge an hourly rate of two-hundred dollars ($200.00) for a contested divorce or paternity case.

A Paternity Case is defined as when two parents have one or more minor child(ren) without a legal marriage.

If you decide to utilize my services for a contested divorce or paternity case, if you can give me your information online, as well as make your initial payment, in effect, I will be giving a discount because of the time saving.

My standard initial retainer for a contested divorce is one thousand, five hundred dollars ($1,500.00), which will cover you for the first 7 hours. Utilization of this online procedure for initiating a contested divorce is likely to save you approximately 1 1/2 hours of my time, and, therefore, my initial retainer for a contested divorce. Utilizing this on line procedure, my retainer is one thousand two hundred dollars ($1,200.00).

Steps for utilizing this on line fee procedure:

A. Create account

01. name
address
city, State, zip
telephone number(s)
e-mail address

B. Credit card

account number
expiration date
security code
billing address

C. Initial information for initiating your divorce/paternity case.

Note: for convenience the term "spouse" is used even for paternity cases, notwithstanding the lack of a legal marriage

Name of Spouse initiating procedure (Spouse 1).
Name of other Spouse (Spouse 2).
Address of Spouse 1.
Date of birth of Spouse 1.
Address of Spouse 2.
Date of birth of Spouse 2.

If it is a Divorce

Date of marriage.
County and State of marriage.
Month and year of actual physical separation, if the spouses have physically separated.

If there are minor children in either a Divorce or Paternity Case:

Are the spouses both parents of the same minor children.
If the spouses are both parents of the same minor children, names and birth dates of all such the minor children of both parties.
Address where the children are currently residing
County(ies) and State(s) where the children have resided for the last five (5) years.

After I have received your information, I will prepare your initial paperwork, which will require your signature as well as mine, and we can make satisfactory arrangement for the further representation.