With Honesty Cut Legal Fees With Honesty by Honorable Anne Kass. Ann Kass is a District Judge in the Second Judicial District State of New Mexico.
Attorney fees are a major issue in divorce court.
Given that the single most common problem divorcing spouses face is not having enough money, if they're not careful, they'll find that their lawyers may make that problem worse, not better. For example, if divorcing parents aren't able to talk to each other respectfully and sensibly about when, where and how they will share their children, they will have to pay their attorneys to talk for them. Similarly, divorcing spouses who aren't absolutely honest with one another can find themselves with enormous legal fees because their lawyers will have to spend time questioning and investigating everything the other side says. That can be very expensive. In divorce cases, the court can order one side to pay all or part of the other side's lawyer fees.