Lawyers are sometimes unavoidable.
For example 1. Your spouse may be abusing you, physically or emotionally. Your spouse may be your only means of support, yet may be hiding income or assets from you. You have been married a long time, either or both of you are involved in a self-owned business, and you have financial complications too complicated to work out without counsel. You have serious disagreements as to where your children are to live or how they should be brought up.