If you cannot afford an attorney to represent you in the marital dissolution that you seek, then you should contact the local "legal aid" facility in your county for assistance or contact your local county bar association to see if it has a program to assist a person such as you.As for the filing fee, go to the county clerk's office and ask for a fee waiver to complete along with the summons and the petition for the marital dissolution that you seek.As to who ends up paying what in the end regarding assets and liabilities, the courts typically end up dividing the assets between the respective spouses.