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Guest — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 16:56:47 -0500

of course it would be a shame if people allowed finances to deter them from divorcing. The question is, are divorce lawyers exploiting this and overcharging because of this? I wonder... CM

Survey Says Divorce Attorney Fees Not So Scary

Amanda Lockhart — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 15:00:00 -0500

Earlier this week, I wrote about a British law firm that conducted a survey about divorce. The point of it was to illustrate that few people were aware of mediation services that can help make the process easier and less expensive.

The other day I ran across another statistic from that same survey that really surprised me. Seventy-six percent of the 2,000 people surveyed said they did not consider the prospect of high legal fees a deterrent to divorce. I guess if you want to split up, you're going to do what you've got to do, legal fees be damned. But my instinct was that more people would be intimidated by the costs.

Again the statistic comes from a law firm that's pushing its services, which include the less-expensive option of mediation. But still it's nice to know the cost isn't holding too many people back. It would be a shame if that were the case.

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Survey Says Divorce Attorney Fees Not So Scary