Madison Divorce Attorneys & Lawyers

In Madison, Alabama there are two ways to get a divorce, uncontested or contested. An uncontested divorce is easy and mostly paperwork while a contested divorce is more costly and time consuming. When you call our office, our Madison divorce attorney can advise you on which type would be best for your situation.

We are currently offering a low flat fee for uncontested divorces in Madison County and Limestone County. However, if you are not in agreement and need a divorce lawyer to fight for you, then we can help too.

Our divorce attorneys in Madison require something called a retainer to work on your divorce case and can quote you that at an initial consultation. At the consultation, our divorce lawyer can explain how they can help you get the result you desire in the divorce case or otherwise help counsel you on how the process will likely work in your particular case.

If you are filing for divorce without an agreement, then this is called a contested divorce. A contested divorce starts by paying a local divorce lawyer a retainer. The attorney then works your case and bills at an hourly rate out of this retainer for the work they do. The longer your case goes, the more the attorney has to work. This means that at some point, the original retainer might be exhausted and you’ll have to refill the money you have in our Trust account for the attorney to bill further in your case. 

In a contested divorce, the Madison divorce lawyer is coming up with a strategy for winning your case at trial. From the initial filing and through the discovery process, you and your family law attorney are trying to get your spouse to agree to terms more amenable to you or litigating the matter and letting the judge decide.

The contested divorce starts with filing a Complaint for divorce and serving your spouse. Once they are served, your spouse will likely retain a divorce lawyer to file their Answer to your Complaint. Once the Answer is filed, then both parties usually begin the discovery process. Discovery is where both parties ask for evidence from the other that will be used to prove their case at trial.

Therefore, if you are asking for the marital home you will be gathering evidence about that issue to be used at trial. If the evidence looks favorable and shows you might be more likely to be successful at trial, then your Madison divorce attorney can use that potential winning evidence to leverage the opposing spouse to settle prior to trial and give you what you want.

If the other spouse doesn’t settle, then you can go to trial and have a good chance of winning due to this evidence your lawyer gathered during the discovery process. Our divorce attorneys will work hard to prepare and win your case at trial in order to get you the result you deserve.

If you need a divorce in Madison, or the surrounding areas of Limestone or Madison County, then it is important to retain a local divorce attorney that is familiar with your particular county. In an uncontested divorce, many counties have their own local requirements for what language they want in the divorce documents. Our Madison divorce lawyers regularly file divorces in both Limestone County and Madison County and are very familiar with such local rules.

If you do not have an agreement, then a contested divorce is where you file for divorce without an agreement and have your spouse served with the filing.  The attorney fees in a contested divorce are must more expensive, with most Huntsville divorce lawyers charging by the hour and requiring thousands of dollars up front. This is why it is always cheaper and easier to do an uncontested divorce as long as the two of you can do all of the hard work of reaching an agreement yourselves. Either way, if you give us a call you can talk to our Madison divorce attorney and they can advise you on which one is the best option for you.