Jasper Divorce Attorneys

Our Jasper divorce lawyer is currently offering discounted fees for uncontested divorces in Walker County, Alabama. The uncontested divorce may require additional fees for our Jasper divorce lawyer 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 Jasper divorce lawyer a call today for more information about the filing fee in your county. 

To do an uncontested divorce in Jasper, you and your spouse must be in complete agreement about everything, such as property division, custody, child support, and all other marital issues. Since there are no contested issues in an uncontested divorce there are no hearings and it is usually not necessary to have an in person meeting with the attorney preparing your divorce documents. Therefore, our Jasper divorce lawyer can offer these discounted fees no matter where you are in the State of Alabama.

If you want to get the process started you can call and request that a questionnaire be sent to you or fill one out online by clicking on the button in the sidebar. If you have any questions feel free to call us and one of our divorce lawyers in Jasper will be happy to speak with you.

If you are seeking an uncontested divorce in Jasper or the surrounding areas, then it is important to retain a divorce lawyer in Jasper that is familiar with the local filing requirements in Walker County. Even in a cheap uncontested divorce it is important to have a local attorney to ensure that everything is prepared and filed correctly. Every county has their own filing rules and our Jasper divorce lawyers are familiar with the local requirements for an uncontested divorce in Winston County and Walker County. Our Jasper divorce attorney will make sure that you receive your decree as quickly and easily as possible.

There are generally two ways our Jasper divorce lawyers can file for a divorce, either uncontested or contested. An uncontested divorce is where an agreement is signed prior to the divorce being filed. Since an agreement has been reached at the time of filing, the case is labeled uncontested. There are no hearings necessary since everything has already been agreed upon by the parties.

Any other way our divorce lawyer in Jasper can help is by filing a contested divorce. In a contested divorce, the case begins by the filing of a document called a Complaint. This document is filed and served on the other spouse, who then has thirty days to file their appropriate response.

If a response is filed, then the two sides will need to reach an agreement or there will eventually be a trial and our divorce attorney in Jasper will fight hard for you and your children. After a trial, the judge will decide the contested issues for you. If no response is filed within thirty days of the spouse being served,  then you may be able to get something called a default divorce. This is basically a divorce without the other spouse’s participation. If you are unable to locate the other spouse in order to serve them, then you may be able to get a type of default divorce called a divorce by publication. If you and your spouse are not in agreement or you do not know where they are located, then give our Sumiton and Jasper divorce lawyers a call today.

To get a cheap uncontested divorce in Jasper, you and your spouse must be in agreement about all of your marital issues. When you retain our Jasper divorce lawyer to handle your uncontested divorce, we will send you a questionnaire for you to fill out and return to us with the payment for the attorney fees. Our divorce attorneys in Jasper will prepare your documents and ensure that they comply with the county’s local requirements for an uncontested divorce.

After you have received the uncontested divorce documents and are satisfied with their contents, then you and your spouse must sign and properly execute the documents and return them to our Jasper divorce lawyer with the filing fee. Our Walker and Lamar County divorce lawyers can help you get a cheap uncontested divorce as long as everyone signs the paperwork.

Once our Jasper divorce lawyers receive the paperwork signed by both parties, then one of our Jasper and Sumiton lawyers will file your uncontested divorce. After about thirty days, the judge assigned to your case can sign your divorce decree. There is a thirty day waiting period for divorces in Alabama, so your divorce will not be able to be final until at least thirty days from the filing date.

Each county has their own clauses that they require in their uncontested divorce documents our Jasper divorce lawyer is familiar with the local rules. Some counties have their own unique local procedural requirements for uncontested divorces as well. Walker County has their own unique clauses that they require in divorce decrees and settlement agreements, as well as having special procedural requirements for filing your divorce paperwork. Our Jasper and Sumiton divorce lawyers regularly file cases in Walker County and are very familiar with their local requirements.

If you live in Jasper, Carbon Hill, Dora, Parrish, or Sumiton then your divorce will likely be filed in the Circuit Court of Walker County. If you are in the Walker County area and wish to obtain a cheap and easy uncontested divorce, then give our Jasper divorce lawyer a call today for more information.

Aside from just uncontested divorces, our Jasper divorce lawyers also handles contested divorces. This is a more involved type of divorce that is recommended when the two parties in a marriage cannot come to a mutual agreement so one spouse serves the other with a Complaint. The served spouse then find a lawyer to help them file a response. The hearings following this are set and a judge is brought in to help settle and decide the disputes between the two parties, should you two not be able to come to an agreement otherwise.

This type of divorce is more complicated and involved than a simple uncontested divorce so attorney fees will be higher. Our Jasper divorce attorneys, like others in the industry, charge a retainer that is based on hourly work and the amount of work performed. How much you pay in the end depends on how quickly the marital issues in the divorce can be resolved. Because contested divorces tend to have a lot of back and forth, the attorney fees could get expensive.

The retainer for a Jasper divorce lawyer can be thousands of dollars, but exactly how much it is depends on how complex the issues involved are and how contested they will probably get. Should there be children of the marriage involved, then the retainers will definitely be more than divorces without children, however there are still other factors we consider in quoting you a retainer. We invite you to call our Walker County office today to have us go over the details of your case which will then allow our Jasper divorce attorney to determine how much of a retainer we would require up front to start work on your case.