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Thus, your total cost with the court filing fee is $468.00. Our fee for the Do-It-Yourself Divorce with minor children (for an action involving custody of children) is two hundred dollars ($200.00) which includes ~50 pages of typing.
On average, a divorce without children that went all the way to trial cost $23,500, including $16,500 in attorney fees. Fortunately, spouses divorcing without minor children were able to settle their issues without going to trial 74% of the time.