Two main factors drive up the costs of a divorce. The first factor is the legal fees involved in having two legal teams put dozens or hundreds of hours into divorce negotiations and related paperwork. The second factor is court fees, which can get pretty high if the couple can’t settle their differences and their case ends up having to be decided by a judge.
This means that you can avoid a lot of the costs of a divorce if you can settle things amicably with your former partner. That will allow you to get negotiations done quicker — leading to fewer legal fees — but it can even allow you and your partner to settle your issues through mediation rather than hiring two attorneys. You should sit down with a family law firm like Prime Lawyers to see if mediation or alternative conflict resolution methods could work for you and your partner.
