Before You File — Florida Divorce Preparation
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Before You File
Florida
Divorce preparation

Stop paying lawyers for work you can do yourself.

A divorce attorney’s guide to the weeks before you file plus tips to save thousands more!

Save money · Save time · Stay organized
from $229

Less than one billable hour.

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What
this is

Before You File is a Florida divorce preparation system written by a family law attorney detailing how a case runs, what a court expects of you, and most importantly, where the attorney’s fees build, in plain language. For less than one billable hour of a lawyer’s time, Before You File will introduce the extensive discovery process, retrieve your bank and financial institution statements for you, and keep your file organized throughout the pendency of your case.

Every Florida case opens with Mandatory Disclosure, a defined set of financial records both parties must exchange whether or not either one requests them. Gathering those records is the first real work of a case, and a firm will do it for you at its hourly rate. AutoCollect retrieves what it can reach instead, Your Case File holds the rest, and the hours nobody spends are hours nobody bills.

The
arithmetic

Advocacy is worth every dollar. Data collection isn’t.

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What’s left to decide?

How you
are billed

Nobody explains how the billing works until you are already inside it.

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So the only question that matters is who spends the hours.

Their meter $325 / hour
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Runs to $1,300 – $5,200
Before You File $0 / hour
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Costs once from $229
What you
are purchasing

Every hour you do yourself is an hour nobody bills you for.

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Price

For only one billable hour.

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14 days to change your mind, no reason needed. Written for Florida and nowhere else. Every document carries the date it was last reviewed.

The attorney
behind it
Erica G. Burns, Esq.

Erica G. Burns, Esq.

I have been a member of The Florida Bar since 2015 and started my firm in 2017. I first-chaired more than 30 trials and appeared at over 100 evidentiary hearings. In that time, I’ve watched many clients spend money on attorney’s fees they did not need to spend — not on advocacy, but on the parts of a case that never required an attorney at all.

I created this to help you save on your attorney's fees.
Going through a divorce is hard enough.

Florida Bar member · Florida family law since 2017

Where this
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Before you go further

Is someone in your household making you afraid?

Then preparation isn’t the first thing you need. There’s a free guide for this, and you don’t have to share any information to own it. If you share a device with the other party, read it on one they don’t use.

DV Resource Guide