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FIND A 1-800-DIVORCE LAWYER
 | If you have made the difficult and highly
personal decision to terminate your marriage or to pursue any legal remedy relating to
your family situation, the wisest first step you can take is to consult a competent and
cost-effective family lawyer. Not knowing your legal rights up-front can harm your
legal position as well as that of any minor child(ren). If you are facing a family
legal problem, sound and immediate advice about your legal rights is
priceless.
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| Don't confuse the act of consulting a lawyer
with retaining or hiring that lawyer. After you consult a lawyer to get advice on your
legal rights and options, you may or may not retain that lawyer to handle your case.
Consultation with a lawyer should always be the first step.
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| Some 1-800-DIVORCE
lawyers offer a free
consultation. Others will charge a small consultation fee for their time, but often this
small fee is a credit against the lawyer's retainer fee if you hire him or her later on.
Be sure to ask your local 1-800-DIVORCE lawyer about his or her fees.
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| Neither 1-800-DIVORCE nor any
1-800-DIVORCE
lawyer advocates divorce or legal separation. Nor does
1-800-DIVORCE
advocate that you, or
any minor child, remain in an unhappy, stressful or otherwise dangerous marital situation.
Your marriage is well worth saving, if that is possible. Please consider all
appropriate marriage counseling opportunities.
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| In making your decision on hiring a lawyer,
please consider the following:
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profession. While almost all lawyers now advertise, they are concerned rightfully about
how they present themselves professionally to their potential clients. Savvy lawyers have
recognized the distinction between practicing law and operating a law business. They know
they must do both. Today's consumer will not just drop by a lawyer's office. Today's
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1-800-DIVORCE is a powerful marketing statement to you by your local
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| While cost is at the forefront of most
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experienced lawyer, not a cheap one. Because 1-800-DIVORCE
brings your local 1-800-DIVORCE
lawyer a constant stream of cases, s/he has a better opportunity than most competing local
lawyers to be experienced and to operate a more cost-effective operation. Be sure to
consider these factors in your decision to hire a lawyer.
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| Most 1-800-DIVORCE lawyers and clinics handle
many different types of family law cases, not just divorce. Be sure to ask your
local 1-800-DIVORCE lawyer what other areas of family law s/he handles.
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| Some 1-800-DIVORCE
lawyers handle areas of
law other than family law (or will have a partner or someone else in the firm who does).
If you have other legal problems, now or in the future, ask your 1-800-DIVORCE lawyer if
s/he can assist. You will already know him or her, and hey, you'll never forget the phone
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HERE'S THE SMALL PRINT (BUT WE'VE MADE IT BIGGER):
 THIS IS IMPORTANT LEGAL STUFF!
| In most states, this web site and each of its
pages are considered advertisements. Regardless of your location, you should
consider the content of this web site as advertisement. You should not hire a lawyer on
the basis of advertisement alone. You might find advertisement a convenient way to locate
a lawyer. However, the hiring of a lawyer should be an informed decision based upon many
factors, including the content and convenience of advertising.
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| 1-800-DIVORCE
is a telephone and internet
directory of independent family lawyers and family law clinics. 1-800-DIVORCE is not a
lawyer referral service.
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| 1-800-DIVORCE does not recommend or endorse
any lawyer. 1-800-DIVORCE makes no warranties as to the performance of any lawyer or the
outcome of any case. Each case is different. Its outcome cannot be predicted.
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| Neither 1-800-DIVORCE nor any
1-800-DIVORCE
lawyer warrants or represents that the hiring of a 1-800-DIVORCE lawyer will cause a
better result in your case than if a non-1-800-DIVORCE lawyer had been hired. The
type of advertising used by a lawyer will not affect the outcome of your case. Legal cases
are decided upon their merits, which can be enhanced by a skillful and experienced lawyer.
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| Visitors to the 1-800-DIVORCE web site are
strongly recommended not to attempt to resolve their legal problems on their own or with
the advice of well-intentioned friends or relatives. This can be disastrous. Consulting or
retaining a competent lawyer is always a wise step, regardless of the outcome.
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| Each 1-800-DIVORCE lawyer reserves the right
to create and modify his or her own engagement policy by which s/he is hired. That
engagement policy may include client interview and a retainer agreement.
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| Communication with a 1-800-DIVORCE lawyer,
either telephonically or electronically, does not establish automatically a lawyer-client
relationship. Because your local 1-800-DIVORCE lawyer is wise, s/he will be careful
to control when and how any lawyer-client relationship is created. You should not consider
or represent that any communication has created the lawyer-client relationship until a
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| The Constitution leaves divorce and family
law matters to the individual states and the District of Columbia. Consequently,
there are 51 sets of divorce law in the United States. While there are many
similarities in the development of laws and some codified unification between the states,
you should take advice only from a lawyer who is licensed and experienced in the location
that has jurisdiction over the family law matter in question.
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The content of this web site is intended
solely to provide you a convenient, memorable and free gateway to a local experienced
family lawyer during a stressful and/or unhappy time of life when you might not otherwise
know where to turn. 1-800-DIVORCE does not assert that it is the only method by which a
family lawyer can be found, just the most civilized. 1-800-DIVORCE
hopes and trusts that
this web site has assisted you. 1-800-DIVORCE wishes you the best in your
case.
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