Alabaster Divorce Attorneys

Our Alabaster divorce lawyer is currently charging a low flat fee for an uncontested divorce in Shelby County, Alabama. If you and your spouse are not in agreement, then we can help you with a contested divorce, but the attorney fees are much more expensive to begin that process. No matter which type of divorce you need, as long as one or both of you reside in Alabaster, then our divorce lawyer in Alabaster can handle your divorce in Shelby County, Alabama.

• $390 for a simple uncontested divorce with no minor children. 
• $490 for a simple uncontested divorce with minor children.

The uncontested divorce may require additional fees if there are substantial property or tax considerations involved, business interests, paternity issues, retirement issues, or any other complex matters that would require more time of the attorney. There is also a fee that is charged when a case is filed in a contested or uncontested divorce. This fee varies from county to county. Give our Alabaster divorce lawyer a call today for more information about the filing fee where you live.

For our Calera divorce lawyer to get you an easy uncontested divorce in Alabaster, you and your spouse need to be complete agreement about all marital issues such as child support, custody, and division of property. To get started our divorce attorney can email or mail you a questionnaire or you can fill it out online on the divorce questionnaire page. In an uncontested divorce it is usually not necessary to meet in our office and there are not any hearings due to the parties having agreed to everything. This allows our Alabaster divorce lawyer to offer such discounted fees no matter where you live in Alabama. However, we do have an office in Shelby County if you want an in-person consultation with our local Alabaster and Helena divorce attorney.

If you are going to need an uncontested divorce in Alabaster, then you should retain a local Alabaster divorce lawyer that is familiar with the local requirements in Shelby County. Most counties have their own local requirements and even might have unique language they want in the documents.  Our Alabaster divorce lawyers regularly file uncontested divorces in Shelby County and are very familiar with the local requirements.

An uncontested divorce is where you reach an agreement with your spouse and both of you sign the documents prior to the divorce being filed. Since a settlement agreement is filed with the divorce, all the judge has to do is approve the agreement and issue your divorce decree, which is usually done without any hearings or court dates. This decree is usually issued about a month or two after the divorce is started.

Any other way you file is called a contested divorce. This is where our divorce lawyer in Alabaster files your divorce without any agreement being reached and has your spouse served with the Complaint. Once they are officially served, they usually obtain an attorney to draft a response. There are hearings set and the judge will ultimately decide your disagreements if the two of you cannot come to an agreement.

Our divorce lawyer can help if you need a contested divorce. However, the attorney fees are significantly higher than an uncontested divorce. Like most divorce lawyers, we require a retainer for such services and our attorney will bill hourly from it depending on the amount of work performed. So, depending on how long it takes to resolve your marital issues in the divorce, the attorney fees could get expensive.

Typically, retainers for contested divorces can be thousands of dollars, depending on how complex the issues involved are and how contested they will probably get. If there are minor children of the marriage then the retainers are usually more than divorces without children, but there are other factors we consider in quoting you a retainer.

You can call our office today to find out how much of a retainer we would require up front to begin working on your case. You will usually need to have at least a phone consultation with our attorney before we can quote you a fee, especially if there are minor children or other potentially complex issues involved. This is the reason an Alabaster uncontested divorce is almost always cheaper and easier.

To get a cheap divorce in Shelby County, the two of you must be in agreement. Our Alabaster divorce attorneys charge low flat fees for uncontested divorces as long as both of you are in agreement. This does not include the filing fee charged when a case is filed. Filing fees vary from county to county so call us today for the filing fee in Shelby County.

To start the uncontested divorce process in Alabaster, you would usually fill out the questionnaire online or by mail. After you have paid the attorney fees and we receive the questionnaire, then we will prepare the documents and send them to you.  Once we get the documents back properly signed and notarized with the filing fee then we file the case. You will usually get your divorce decree about thirty days or more later. In almost all counties now the Court usually enters the divorce decrees electronically and our lawyer will get them to you at that time.

If you need a divorce attorney in Chelsea, Birmingham, Calera, Helena, Columbiana, Hoover, Leeds, Montevallo, Pelham, Vestavia Hills, Wilsonville, or Harpersville then your divorce may be filed in the Circuit Court of Shelby County or Jefferson County. If you are in the City of Alabaster or the surrounding areas of Shelby County and want a quick and easy divorce, then give our local divorce lawyer a call today for more information.

If it’s not an uncontested divorce where the spouses have reached a mutual agreement, it is called a contested divorce. In a contested divorce, there is no previous agreement reached and one spouse serves the other with a Complaint. Once they are officially served, the spouse hires an attorney who will help them with a response. The hearings are set, and a judge gets involved to ultimately decide your disagreements.

Should you be in need of a divorce lawyer, then our legal team can help. Please be aware that attorney fees are significantly higher than in an uncontested divorce. As is common practice with divorce lawyers, a retainer is required for these services and our divorce lawyer will bill hourly which means how much it comes out to depends on the amount of time needed to perform the work. Contested divorces retainers are thousands of dollars, depending on how complex the issues involved are and how contested they will probably get. An example of something that would make the process take longer and cost more is if there are minor children from the marriage.

Feel free to contact us so we can evaluate your situation and give you an estimate of what the retainer would be in order for our experienced contested divorce lawyer in Alabaster to begin work on your case. This may consist of a phone or in person consultation with our divorce lawyer.

Once you speak with the local divorce lawyer, they can quote you a fee and take note of important details like any assets shared between you two or minor children or other potentially complex issues involved. Because of all these other factors, an uncontested divorce is almost always the ideal, cheaper and easier route.