Fultondale Divorce Lawyers

Our Fultondale divorce lawyers are currently charging a low flat fee for cheap and easy uncontested divorces in Jefferson County, Alabama. Our divorce attorneys also can file your contested divorce and fight for you. Moreover, call us today for more information about getting divorced in Fultondale, Alabama.

• $390 for a cheap uncontested divorce with no kids
• $490 for a cheap uncontested divorce with kids

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 issues that would require more time of the attorney. There is also a filing fee that the county charges when a divorce is filed. This filing fee varies from county to county. Give our Fultondale divorce lawyer a call today for more information about the filing fee in your county.

If you are in complete agreement about everything, then you can get a cheap and easy uncontested divorce in Fultondale. This includes agreeing upon the following:

• Child Custody
• Child Support
• Division of martial property and debts

For instance, an uncontested divorce is where you pay our Fultondale divorce lawyer a low flat fee and we prepare all of the paperwork necessary to obtain your divorce decree by agreement without the need for a hearing. That means you and your spouse must both be willing to sign and execute a settlement agreement. All other paperwork, our divorce lawyers in Fultondale will prepare in order to get an uncontested divorce with no hearings or other court proceedings. If you need a divorce in Talladega, Birmingham, Fultondale, or anywhere else in Central Alabama then we can help.

Once both spouses have returned the signed and executed documents back to our office with the filing fee then our Fultondale divorce attorney will file your case electronically. Additionally, once the uncontested divorce is filed in Jefferson County, you will usually receive your divorce decree by email and mail about a month or two later. Since an agreement has been filed with the Court, the judge just has to look it over. As long as the judge approves it then you should not have to ever step foot in a Jefferson County courtroom.

To begin the process of getting a cheap and easy divorce in Fultondale, you will need to fill out a questionnaire. You can do this on the website by searching on the sidebar to the right. Our divorce lawyer can also email or mail you a questionnaire to fill out and return to us however you want to. It is usually not necessary to meet with our Fultondale divorce lawyer in person as long as both parties are in complete agreement about all issues such as child support, property distribution, and custody.

Our attorneys can usually call you back within an hour or two and do a phone consultation the same day. In addition to calling, you can also set up an appointment to meet in one of our offices, but our Fultondale divorce attorneys do charge a consultation fee to meet in person.

All counties have their own local requirements for filing an uncontested divorce such as requiring certain language in the paperwork unique to that county or having certain procedural rules about how and when the documents should be signed or filed. This is why it is always important to have a local divorce attorney prepare your divorce paperwork. Our Fultondale divorce lawyer regularly files divorces in Jefferson County and will ensure that your paperwork has no issues and that you receive your decree as quickly and easily as possible.

If both parties are not in agreement, then you cannot do a cheap and easy uncontested divorce. You will file for a contested divorce, since there is no agreement at the time of filing. In a contested divorce, you just file a document called a Complaint asking for whatever relief you desire such as:

• Being awarded custody
• The house
• Marital property or debts

At the same time, you can hire a Fultondale divorce lawyer to represent you in the divorce or you can file it yourself. If you want an attorney to represent you, then you will usually need to pay them a retainer. This is where you pay a lump sum up front and the divorce attorney bills out of this hourly. That means the longer the case goes, the more hours your Gardendale divorce attorney bills. In this case, once the retainer is emptied, you would need to refill the retainer for the attorney to continue representing your case. The retainers for contested divorces can be thousands of dollars depending on the law firm and whether you have children of the marriage or not.

To point out, our Fultondale divorce lawyer sometimes charge a flat fee when they can predict the number of hours they will have to work. For instance, that is how our Fultondale divorce lawyer is able to charge a low flat fee for uncontested divorces. Our Fultondale divorce lawyers charge the flat fee in order to prepare the paperwork and file it if you return it to us properly signed and executed. That way we know the work to be performed and can charge a flat fee and not have to charge by the hour.

Our Fultondale divorce attorney notably a proud member of the Better Business Bureau, notably with an A+ rating. When you take a look at our BBB page for more information on our law firm. Call our local professional divorce lawyer today and let us answer your divorce questions over the phone or in person. If you can do the hard work of reaching an agreement with your spouse, then let us get you a cheap and easy uncontested divorce in Fultondale, Alabama without ever having to go to court.