Divorce – 3 Tips To Choose The Best Divorce Attorney

By Author: Jane Cooper
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There is a saying that there are three entities in this world that you need to be very honest to. They would be your God, your doctor and your divorce attorney. A personal divorce attorney is no different from your physician. The physician would take the best care of your health while your personal divorce attorney would look after you at the time of divorce and ensure that you get the best out of it. To ensure that you get the best out your divorce you need to choose the best divorce attorney in town. To do that you would have to do a lot of research and go through the following three tips that would help you hire the best divorce attorney.

Tip 1

As I stated before, your divorce lawyer is just the same as your physician or your gynecologist! So make certain that when you are approaching a divorce lawyer, you always look into his or her reputation amongst his or her clients, the court, among other attorneys and most importantly look into what the judges think about that attorney. A judge’s verdict about an attorney could end in either extreme; Work out in favor for you or the opposite depending ...
... upon the credibility that your attorney has with the judges. So as your very first tip, do a lot of research and look for a credible attorney.

Tip 2

Your tip number two would be to look for a divorce attorney who is confident. Remember that you do not want to be represented by a complete push-over who would say “yes” to every demand of your spouse’s attorney and would never stand-up to you or your rights. For all that you know an attorney who is pushed around by everyone would surely be a laughing stock in the judges’ chambers and you would be added on to their list of “laughing stock”. Look for an attorney who dresses, acts, talks, and walks like one of those holly-wood movie types. Let him be dressed in pin striped Armani or Gucci. Class means success and success translates to better negotiation and a divorce that is better than what you’ve imagined!

Tip 3

As to the final and the most important tip of all, you will have to learn about an attorney’s charges or fees. From the very first meeting, clarify the points on how you are going to be charged and what is the rate that the attorney wants. Also find out if you are going to be charged even if you make a simple call to the attorney’s office to ask for the divorce documents to be sent or even for a simple clarification. Some Austin divorce attorneys only charge for appointments given and for the time that they represent you in court. So be careful with their fees and charges and have it clarified in the very first meeting. Trust me, you do not want to have a successful divorce settlement with your divorce attorney eating half of that settlement with a big bill that has n number of hidden charges that weren’t discussed before!

If you are on the hunt for a divorce lawyer, always remember these three simple tips and ensure that you find the best one out there.
About Author:
Jane Cooper writes about Austin divorce and Austin child custody issues.