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[quote=Anonymous]My husband dropped the ball last week. We thankfully agree to everything, but have both retained a lawyer to draw up the separation agreement. My lawyer is in Bethesda and $375/hr. I put a $3k retainer down. My husband's is $450/hr, but since my lawyer is taking the first crack at the settlement, she set her retainer at $2.5k. Whatever money isn't used will come back to us. We expect this to be fairly quick and we both hope to have money back.

We are lucky that we make equal salaries, have no debt other than our home, and agree on custody. The biggest issue we need to make sure we have settled is the house. My soon to be ex and I drafted pretty much everything up ourselves, I presented to my attorney this week, and we hope to have a draft settlement any day. I will review, then he and his attorney will review and we hoep to have it signed right after. At that point I will begin my house hunt and then come 1 October we will file for divorce. (MD has a new law in effect in Oct where divorces can happen sooner). She thinks our divorce can be final by Nov. [/quote]

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