Your California Uncontested Divorce Done By a Local Online Divorce Lawyer or With Our DIY Option at Extremely Low Cost With No Ups or Extras Ever
The convenience, low cost and lower stress of online divorce PLUS, if you select our Premium option, the security of a California online divorce lawyer on your team.
File for your uncontested California divorce online either through our DIY option for $397 flat with no ups or extras ever or use our Premium option to have an Online Divorce Lawyer near you prepare and review your docs (using our software) and provide advice and guidance for unbundled packages starting at $700-$1000.
At Online Divorce Lawyer, the choice is ALWAYS yours.
If you use Online Divorce Lawyer for your uncontested divorce in California, you will avoid these 3 BIG dangers:
- Fraudulent and Incompetent Divorce Mills: Don’t risk your legal and economic future. They claim “complete fees” of $139-$299. But look at their terms of use. Those fees are for one month only! They will hit your credit card every month. They will slow down your case to get paid longer. They will aggressively up-sell you with $199 “premium” packages and other fees. They are clueless about local divorce court rules.
- Expensive Non-Lawyers Fronted by Hot-Shot Hollywood Lawyers: These include Hello Divorce, Divorce.com and AIDivorce.legal. They all have $400-$500 “teaser” packages, but those packages just “get you in the door” so that they can up-sell you to their $2000-$4500 packages.
- Traditional Divorce Lawyers: There are thousands of them. They all look and sound alike. They don’t even know what online divorce is. They have one offer only – $7500-$10000 retainer fees PLUS $300-450 per hour billables. It’s all they know. You do NOT need full representation in ALMOST ALL uncontested divorces, but they will NOT tell you that. Don’t let them scare the crap out of you about something that MIGHT happen, but almost certainly won’t!
Uncontested divorce consumers now have another option. A local California Online Divorce Lawyer is offering the Best of Both Worlds in your uncontested divorce.
With Online Divorce Lawyer, the choice is always yours. You will NEVER get pressure from us to spend more. You’ll get the cost-reduction, convenience and lower stress of online divorce PLUS (if YOU decide) the safety and peace of mind of having a licensed local California online divorce lawyer on your team.
And if you don’t select the Premium package, our panel of experienced Online Divorce Lawyers will always have been standing by and available for consultation. You will only have paid the $397 and you had the free benefit of a lawyer available if YOU decide you need one.
All at a competitive flat fee you know up front!
Oh yeah! And you’ll never forget your Online Divorce Lawyer’s phone number.
"Effortlessly Untying the Knot: Because Who Knew Divorce Could Be This Easy?"
California Online Divorce Lawyer Availability
Online Divorce Lawyer service is available in ALL major cities in California, including: Garden Grove, Pomona, Orange, Santa Clarita, Santa Ana, Huntington Beach, Ontario, Costa Mesa, Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Irvine, Palmdale, Rancho Cucamonga, Corona, Lancaster, Fontana, Riverside, Rialto, Oxnard, San Bernardino, Moreno Valley, Ventura, Victorville, Murrieta, Temecula
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…to get a quote from our closest Online Divorce Lawyer to you. Unbundled document review packages start at around $725-$1000 flat fee. Bear in mind that you don’t pay $397 PLUS the $725-$1000 . You pay only one of those fees, depending on whether you want to keep the cost way down or have a lawyer on board for advice, guidance and document review.
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Compare Your California Online Divorce Options
Spoiler Alert: There is only one Best of Both Worlds California online divorce option. And you’re looking at it!
Uncontested Divorce = Online Divorce
Online divorce is made for uncontested divorce. If you are fortunate enough to have an uncontested divorce, online divorce is a wise choice.
An uncontested California divorce is a divorce where the parties are in agreement and will not dispute any legal issue in the divorce AND
- there is not a very large marital estate (you are not very wealthy)
- there are no complex legal issues, e.g. there is no interest in an active business or a special needs child who may need lifetime support (there are many other examples of complex legal issues)
- there is no domestic violence or the threat of domestic violence.
Avoid Fraudulent and Incompetent Online Divorce Mills
The whole point of online divorce in California is to reduce stress and keep your cost down.
There are dozens of these companies. They all offer $169-$299 fees and imply those are complete fees, but they are not. Check their Terms of Use. That fee is for the first month only. They will hit your card every month, and slow your case down so that they get paid longer.
On average, you will pay $400-$550 to these unregulated non-lawyer online divorce mills. And then you will also pay for their mistakes forever. They pretend they know how to handle divorce in all 3000+ US counties. They don’t. They have no local knowledge and they make MANY mistakes. That’s NOT a low-stress divorce and it’s also NOT a cheap divorce.
Just look at the Better Business Bureau or TrustPilot pages of any non-lawyer, non-Legal Document Assistant online divorce mill. Hire one of these outfits and you are on your own. That is high stress divorce. Don’t do it!
Avoid Very Expensive Non-Lawyer Legal Document Assistants Fronted by Hot-Shot Hollywood Lawyers
These include Hello Divorce, divorce.com and AIdivorce.legal. These have
$275-$500 “get-em-in-the-door” packages. Then the aggressive up-selling begins.
For Hello Divorce’s $400 teaser package, no one reviews your documents before they are filed at court. For AI Divorce’s $275 teaser package, it only covers the first batch of divorce documents. There are three batches in almost all California divorces.
Avoid Traditional Divorce Lawyer Churners
Traditional California divorce lawyers want to charge you a $7500-$10,000+ retainer fee. Then they will burn up that retainer as fast as possible to get you onto the $300-$450 billable hour treadmill.
That’s because they don’t know what else to do. Churning through client money is the only thing traditional California divorce lawyers have ever done. Don’t fall for it if you have an uncontested divorce.
Very few California divorce lawyers have been among the competitive and savvy divorce lawyers who have adopted online divorce as either an additional service offering or their only service offering.
Traditional lawyers will trick you into hiring them by scaring the crap out of you on some issue that MIGHT happen in your case but almost certainly won’t.
The way to handle some terrible event that MIGHT happen is to be aware of it and plan for it. A headache might be brain cancer, but it probably isn’t. You don’t hire a brain surgeon immediately. You take an aspirin.
Once traditional lawyers have your retainer, you have to disclose your assets and debts to them as part of the California divorce disclosure process. So they know EXACTLY what cash and assets you’ve got as well as your credit card balances.
All they need to do from that point is churn. Requests for Orders, Discovery Requests, Discovery Responses, Hearings, Interrogatories, Postponements, Trial Briefs, etc., etc. until your cash and assets are gone.
If your spouse has a lawyer too, the 2 lawyers will do their dance until neither one of you has cash or credit left. Then they’ll recommend that you settle your case and tell you what a great job they did.
Don’t fall for this nonsense. There are times when you will need a full representation lawyer (and if your simple uncontested blows up, you will need full representation), but not in a simple uncontested California divorce.
And guess what! If you use Online Divorce Lawyer and your case blows up into a contested case, you already have a local divorce lawyer who knows your case on your team!
Avoid unnecessary and dishonest lawyer churners. They will overcharge you by at least 4-5X. Make the lawyer fit your case. Don’t make your case fit the lawyer’s BMW payments. Know your cost up front.
Get the Best of Both Worlds
California uncontested divorce consumers now have another option.
Use our DIY option for a flat $397 fee with no ups or extras ever or use our Premium option to hire a savvy, competitive local California Online Divorce Lawyer who will use our wicked-cool software to prepare your docs. Protect your legal and economic interests. Protect yourself from the high risks of unregulated online divorce mills and dishonest traditional divorce lawyer churners.
You get all of the protection of using a California Online Divorce Lawyer at a fraction of the price of the dishonest traditional divorce lawyer churners.
And if any problem does arise, or even if your uncontested case completely blows up (very few of them do), you already have a California divorce lawyer on your team. S/he already knows your case.
You will only use your California divorce lawyer when you need your California divorce lawyer. And you only pay for services you need. You do not automatically overpay just because something MIGHT go wrong.
Please note that your payment invoice will indicate, “Legal Marketing Systems,” our parent company, as the payee. Many thanks.
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…to get a quote from our closest Online Divorce Lawyer to you. Unbundled document review packages start at around $725-$1000 flat fee. Bear in mind that you don’t pay $397 PLUS the $725-$1000 . You pay only one of those fees, depending on whether you want to keep the cost way down or have a lawyer on board for advice, guidance and document review.
Compare your California online divorce options below before making your uncontested divorce hiring decision.
| FEATURES | Unqualified Online Divorce Mill | Traditional Lawyer | Online Divorce Lawyer Premium |
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| Approximate Cost: | Most are in the range of $400-$1100 AFTER hidden monthly fees are added; A couple are as high as $2500-$3500; Another Group Claims $139-299 is the Total Price But Has Many Hidden Fees, such as an undisclosed monthly “storage fee,” a $199 “Expedite” fee (or you have to wait 10-12 days to get your docs) or a $199 “Premium Package” Fee; Constant Up-Selling | $7500-$10000 +++ retainer fee, but then they work off that retainer at $450-$750 per hour as fast as possible to get you onto a billable hourly rate at $450-$750 per hour. All services, whether you need them or not are drastically oversold and over-charged. | $700-$1500; Each ODL Independently Owned and Operated; Compare Terms; Some ODL’s Charge Around $700-$800 for Their Basic Doc-Review Package INCLUDING Legal Advice PLUS All of the Advantages Listed Below |
| Education: | Unknown – None Required | College Degree and Law Degree | College Degree and Law Degree |
| Professional Qualifications: | None Required | Bar Exam | Bar Exam |
| Professional Association: | None | Your State’s Bar Association; | Your State’s Bar Association; Online Divorce Association of America |
| Code of Ethics: | None | Strong Enforced State Bar Code of Ethics | Strong Enforced State Bar Code of Ethics |
| Licensing: | None | Strong State Lawyer Licensing | Strong State Lawyer Licensing |
| Continuing Legal Education: | None | Strict State Bar CLE Requirements | Strict State Bar CLE Requirements |
| Location: | Often in Another State, Mexico or India | Your Home Town | Your Home Town |
| Accountability: | None UNLESS they are located in your state; Maybe Through THEIR Local District Attorney or State Attorney General for Blatant Consumer Fraud, but Very Difficult For You to Pursue; Also, No DA’s in India; If Things Go Wrong, You’re On Your Own | Huge Accountability Through YOUR State’s Bar Association’s Strongly Enforced Complaint Procedure | Huge Accountability Through YOUR State’s Bar Association’s Strongly Enforced Complaint Procedure |
| Local Knowledge of Laws, Rules of Court and Local Court Policies: | Unknown; High Risk; Hit or Miss; Low-Quality Training; High Turnover of Untrained Low-level Staff | Professional-Level Knowledge of Your State’s Laws and Your County’s Rules of Court and Local Court Policies | Professional-Level Knowledge of Your State’s Laws and Your County’s Rules of Court and Local Court Policies |
| Wicked Cool Online Divorce Software: | No evidence or claim that they have online divorce software – cut-and-paste only | No | Yes |
| Prepares ALL of Your Legal Docs: | No – State Forms Only – No Local County Forms – Every Case Has Local County Forms | Yes | Yes |
| Legally Able To Provide Legal Advice: | No | Yes | Yes |
| Performs An Analysis of Your Legal and Economic Rights in Your Case: | No – Not Qualified: But Doesn’t Do It Anyway; Some Will Up-Sell You to Local Lawyers for Legal Advice or Other Legal Services at ADDITIONAL cost, but Only AFTER You Are Fully Paid | Yes | Yes |
| Responsive Client Support – Returns Calls and Emails Promptly: | Generally No; Low-Quality or No Customer Support; No Reason To Provide Quality Support; High Turnover of Low-Quality Untrained Staff; You’re On Your Own | Yes – Required By Strongly Enforced Bar Code of Ethics | Yes – Required By Strongly Enforced Bar Code of Ethics |
| Available to Meet: | Never | Yes – Subject to Appointment | Yes – Subject to Appointment |
| Flat Fee: | Always Claimed, but Often There is Rampant Up-Selling of Undisclosed “Expedited” Service Or Other Add-ons; Some Fees Claimed to be Complete are MONTHLY Fees | No. Will drastically over-sell all services, whether needed or not; Will tell you that ALL additional services are required and will scare you to death about all consequences of not paying them more. | Yes; ALL Fees Must Be Disclosed In Advance And Agreed By You in Writing |
| Scalable Services: | No – If You Need Legal Advice or Additional Legal Services Such As Mediation or a QDRO, or If Your Case Blows Up, They Will Up-Sell You To a Local Lawyer Who Has Subscribed Your Zip Code and Pays for the Referral; Why Not Start With That Local Lawyer at Similar Cost and Be Covered for All Risks? | Fully Scalable – but they will attempt to scale ALL services at ALL times; They know how much money you have, and they want it. You are in a very weak position strategically. | Fully Scalable – MOST Online Divorce Lawyers Offer unbundled document review services; All offer Full Representation. Most Offer Mediation, QDRO and Other Potential Legal Services. All Costs Fully Disclosed in Writing Up-front with You, the Well-informed Client, Controlling All Costs. |
The problem with the providers in this group is that they are all aggressive up-sellers. Their only goal is to get you signed up to a cheaper package and then up-sell you to a $1500-$4500 package.