Divorce Oklahoma City - Can You Really Save Money Through Uncontested Divorce?

Divorce can be very confusing and very costly.  Unfortunately, a lot of couples who have zero experience with divorce decide ‘jump into the deep’ and ‘just go for it’.  Take our advice, ‘just going for it’ is the wrong approach when it comes to divorce.  ‘Just going for it’ can drag your divorce out for several months and cost you thousands of dollars in unnecessary attorney fees. 

Fortunately for you, you have stumbled on to this article.  Because of this article, you and your spouse will not use the ‘just go for it’ approach, you will use the ‘uncontested approach’. 

Uncontested divorce is where you and your spouse are in 100% agreement on each one of the major issues.  Uncontested divorce is where you and your spouse pay a divorce paperwork service a one-time small fee for ‘uncontested divorce paperwork’ and then you get to walk away.  Uncontested divorce is where you and your spouse get to save months of time and thousands of dollars because each of you opted not to lawyer up.

How do you have an uncontested divorce?  Take notice of the term ‘100% agreement’ used in the paragraph above.  Only when there is 100% agreement between you and your spouse on each one of the major issues can uncontested divorce exist.  Here are our four tips for saving money on divorce by achieving uncontested divorce:

Tip #1 – Do Not Surprise Your Spouse.  One of the biggest mistakes you can make during the divorce process is to surprise your spouse by filing for divorce with discussing it ahead of time.  By doing so, you will probably cause your spouse to ‘overreact’.  The ‘overreaction’ will cause your spouse to ‘lawyer up’ and right then and there your divorce is contested…you might as well go ahead and ‘lawyer up’ too because the fight is on.

Tip #2 – Maintain Good Communication Between You and Your Spouse.  Maintaining good communication between you and your spouse does not necessarily mean that you and your spouse are friends, it just means that you and your spouse are able to communicate well enough that you are able to negotiate a settlement on each one of the major issues.

Tip #3 – Keep The Children Out Of It.  As much as possible, shield the children from the muck and the mess of the divorce process.  When it comes to the early stages of the divorce, the less your children know the better because you do not want the children to misinterpret something that you told them (which children often do).  When the children misinterpret something that you told them, they might, and probably will misconstrue the facts so that your spouse wrongly assumes that you are dragging the children into the divorce.  This wrong assumption will cause your spouse to ‘overreact’.  Again, just like we discussed in the paragraph above, the ‘overreaction’ will cause your spouse to ‘lawyer up’.  Once that happens, you might as well ‘lawyer up’ too because the divorce is going to be contested.

Tip #4 – Use Uncontested Divorce Paperwork.  There are a lot of very reputable divorce paperwork services out there.  You just have to do the necessary research in order to find one.  Instead of interviewing several divorce attorneys, just contact a reputable divorce paperwork service.  For a one-time, small fee that will draft all of the paperwork that is required in order to finalize your divorce.