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We are a Florida law firm that offers low cost,
flat fee limited legal services ("unbundled" or "discreet task" legal
services). That means we do not offer the full range of services normally
associated with law firms that bill clients by the hour for their time. Those
lawyers typically devote their time, without limitation, to particular tasks
(including client conferences, meetings, phone calls, letters, legal research,
drafting pleadings, reviewing papers, conducting discovery, investigating facts
and attending court hearings), keep track of how much is time spent on each
task and then send a bill each month figured by multiplying the number of hours
spent by their billable hour rate (usually somewhere between $250-500/hour). As
you can see, it does not take long for a lawyer's bill to add up. A one hour
meeting, followed by a couple letters, review of papers, a phone call or two,
drafts and redrafts of court papers, contacting opposing counsel, etc., can add
up to $1000's of dollars in bills; and the divorce may not even be done or
close to being done. That is not how we work.
Most normal working people cannot afford that level service and expensive legal
representation. As a result, the vast majority of people getting divorced in
Florida today are trying to handle it on their own, and the numbers are
skyrocketing. We are going to change all that. We offer real legal help at a
substantially reduced flat fee. Our fee is a flat attorney fee, meaning, that's
it. You know what the fee is before we start. People who have decided they
cannot afford to hire a lawyer and who are buying self-help forms packets, "do
it yourself divorce kits" or looking to "paralegal" or "document preparation"
services for help, need look no further. Those folks are all potential clients
for our firm. We are here to serve them and to make the court system
understandable and accessible to them. Heck, we even go to court with them to
attend their final hearing (uncontested divorce), so that they can get their
divorce done quickly, efficiently and affordably and with no fear of the
unknown.
We help our clients understand the divorce process
and the legal issues they need to resolve with their spouses. We offer our
clients access to our staff of knowledgeable lawyers to meet with and to talk
to, for advice, to answer questions and to help them through the divorce
process. We empower our clients by making sure they understand the process, so
that they can make the best, and most fair, agreement they can. Once an
agreement is reached, we take the terms, as given to us by the client, and
create a marital settlement agreement, custom to the client's personal
circumstances. We also draft the other mandatory court papers (the client will
fill out the required financial affidavit) for the client and client's spouse's
signatures. When we receive the signed papers back from the client, we file
them in court and make sure the judge assigned to the case receives them and
acts on them (either with or without a hearing, as appropriate and as agreed).
If a final hearing is required, we go with the client.
Winning for us means getting the final divorce
decree quickly, efficiently and affordably, so the divorce will be over and
done with.
We do all this for a low, flat attorney fee,
depending on whether the divorce is without kids ($399)
or with kids ($499). It's a little extra for missing
spouse or uncooperative spouse cases on account of the additional, and somewhat
complex, work involved.
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