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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Also, be very strategic with how you use your attorney. Don't use them for venting, frustration, or emotional support because they bill for that. Do some legal research on your own so you know the laws yourself and what you're entitled to and can ask them the right questions.

Do your own documentation and have everything perfectly organized and laid out for them. That saves a lot of time.

I'm not a fan, but Bethenny Frankel did a podcast series about how to deal with the divorce attorneys that I actually thought was excellent advice for how to keep your fees low.

The key is that your attorney is not going to solve your problem for you. They are just one of your tools. You have to rely on yourself for the documentation, the narrative, and what issues you may think can help you and use the attorney to help you get from point A to point B[/quote]

This is good advice. I made it through 10 months of a very litigious process (that I didn’t choose) with a very expensive attorney on a $15k retainer and doing all of the heavy lifting myself. Even if you have the money, it’s best to manage the narrative and documentation and not rely on some firm’s expensive, cookie cutter litigation template. And once it was gone my exDH agreed to cover my legal expenses as a way to postpone his own financial disclosures. Once I was ready to put him on the spot I filed for suit money. You can make this work, but it takes hustle and late nights and you need to make them think you don’t have the legal resources you do so you can slowly set a  trap on facts. [/quote]

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