Start with the whole picture
Find a Divorce Attorney
Finding and choosing the right attorney may be an important step in your divorce. It does not have to be your first step. Start free with Separate Ways to understand and organize your divorce, get free Divorce Concierge support, and bring in attorney help when you are ready or when your situation requires it.
Attorney help
Trusted Attorney options
Eligible attorneys serving your area. You put them in your own order and decide who to meet.
Separate Ways does not rank attorneys or choose one for you.
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Start your divorce here
Separate Ways is the free place to begin. Create an account before you commit to anyone or pay for professional time.
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Understand and organize what your divorce involves
Define your Divorce Scope, gather documents, and use modern tools and free Divorce Concierge support to see the whole picture.
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Bring in the right attorney when legal help is needed
When legal work is part of your plan, request attorney help, review eligible Trusted Attorney options where available, and choose for yourself.
Nothing is filed and no attorney is contacted unless you ask for attorney help.
Why Separate Ways
A divorce attorney may be part of your plan. They should not have to be your whole plan.
Most people searching for a divorce attorney are really searching for a way to get through divorce. The legal work matters, but divorce also involves documents, finances, property, family decisions, real estate, deadlines, questions, and a long list of things that do not all require an attorney.
Separate Ways is the modern place to start and manage that process. The free app, your Divorce Scope and modern AI-assisted tools help you understand and organize the divorce itself. When legal help makes sense, you can request attorney help through Separate Ways, review eligible Trusted Attorney options where available, decide who you want to speak with, and choose whom to hire.
Your attorney handles the legal work. Separate Ways helps you handle the divorce.
Handling the divorce means the practical work around the legal case: organizing your situation, keeping documents together, knowing your next steps, working through children and family decisions, tracking property and assets, dealing with the house and the financial transition, and handing off cleanly to the professionals you decide to involve. Your Divorce Concierge is part of that, and it is free core support.
Separate Ways is not a law firm and does not choose an attorney for you. Attorney legal fees are separate if you decide to hire one.
What that looks like in practice
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Start the divorce here, not with a retainer
Create a free account, build your Divorce Scope and see what your divorce actually involves before you spend money on professional time.
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Handle the whole transition in one place
Documents, next steps, children and family, property and assets, real estate, and the financial transition live together in My Divorce instead of being scattered across notes and email.
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Use your Divorce Concierge
Divorce Concierge is free core support built into Separate Ways. Your concierge helps you understand what is next, keeps the process moving and coordinates handoffs to professionals when you need them.
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Bring in legal help when you need it
Request attorney help from inside the app, review eligible Trusted Attorney options where available, and decide for yourself who you want to contact or hire.
The Separate Ways journey
What happens when you start with Separate Ways
Before you make expensive decisions, start with the whole picture. Getting organized first means you are not paying professional time to reconstruct your divorce from scratch. If your situation is urgent, get legal help promptly and use Separate Ways to manage everything around it.
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Tell us where things stand
Create your free account and answer guided Divorce Scope questions about your household, children, property, real estate, finances and anything already filed.
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See what your divorce involves and what needs attention
Your answers become a personalized My Divorce area with your situation, your documents and the next steps that actually apply to you.
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Work with your free Divorce Concierge and the app
Ask a real person when you do not know who to ask, and use modern AI-assisted tools to keep documents, decisions and open questions in one place.
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Request attorney help when you need it
Nothing happens automatically. You decide when legal help is part of your plan, and you can ask for it at any point, including right away.
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Review eligible Trusted Attorney options and choose who to meet
Where eligible options exist for your area, you review them, put them in your own order and decide whom to contact or retain.
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Keep managing the rest of the divorce in Separate Ways
Documents, family, property, real estate and finances stay organized in one place, whether or not you retain an attorney.
Attorney help
Trusted Attorney options for your area
Family law. Serves your county.
Family law. Consultations this week.
Family law. Serves your county.
Separate Ways does not rank attorneys and does not choose one for you.
You review the options, set your own priorities and decide whom to contact. Separate Ways does not rank attorneys and does not choose one for you.
The new way to start
Most people start with a lawyer. There is now a better first step.
The traditional default
- Think you may be getting divorced
- Search for a lawyer
- Hire a lawyer
- Try to manage everything else around that relationship
There is nothing wrong with hiring an attorney. The difficulty is starting there, before you understand what your divorce involves.
The Separate Ways path
- 01Start free and define your Divorce Scope
- 02Organize the whole transition in My Divorce
- 03Use your Divorce Concierge and modern tools
- 04Decide what professional help you actually need
- 05Find and choose an attorney when legal work is part of the plan
How to find a divorce attorney
Start by getting clear on your situation, then compare attorneys using the same practical questions.
Before the first conversation, know
- Where your divorce would be filed
- Where you are in the process
- Whether children are involved
- The major property and debts that exist
- Which issues still feel unresolved
Searching for a divorce attorney can feel urgent, especially when papers have been served, your spouse has already hired counsel, or important decisions about children, property or money are unresolved. But urgency does not mean you have to hire the first attorney you find.
Before contacting attorneys, organize the basic facts of your situation. Know where your divorce would be filed, where you are in the process, whether children are involved, what major property and debts exist, and which issues feel unresolved. You do not need to know the legal answer to every question. You just need enough organization to have a useful first conversation.
Then speak with attorneys who handle divorce and family-law matters in the jurisdiction that applies to you. Ask each attorney the same questions about experience, communication, fees, availability and how they would approach the work you may need.
Separate Ways is built to help with that process. You can organize your situation in the free app first, then request attorney help when you decide you want it.
Deciding
Do I need a divorce attorney?
You may want to speak with a divorce attorney if any of these apply:
- Your spouse has already hired an attorney or says they are about to.
- You were served with court papers and are unsure what to do or when you must respond.
- You and your spouse disagree about custody, parenting time, child support or alimony.
- Your divorce involves a business, significant real estate, retirement accounts, investments or assets you do not fully understand.
- You suspect assets, income or debt are being hidden.
- There is a major power imbalance, coercive behavior, intimidation or a safety concern.
- You are being asked to sign an agreement you do not fully understand.
- You want legal advice about the consequences of a proposed settlement before agreeing to it.
An attorney can also be useful for a limited purpose. You may want advice on one issue, help reviewing an agreement, assistance preparing for a hearing, or full representation. What an individual attorney offers varies, so ask directly about the scope of services available.
Inside the app
How Separate Ways attorney help works
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Start your divorce in Separate Ways
Create your free account and complete your Divorce Scope so the important parts of your situation are in one place. This is the starting point, not an attorney request.
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Organize the transition with your tools and concierge
Work through documents, family, property, real estate and the financial transition in My Divorce, with free Divorce Concierge support helping you understand what is next.
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Request attorney help when you want it
Nothing happens automatically because you created an account. Attorney help is one capability inside the larger product, and you decide when to use it.
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Review eligible Trusted Attorney options when available
Separate Ways may present approximately three eligible Trusted Attorney options when available for your jurisdiction, based on objective operational criteria such as Trusted Attorney approval, service area and availability. Separate Ways does not rank them or decide who is best for your situation.
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Set your order and decide who you want to meet
Put the options in whatever order makes sense to you, request a consultation with one attorney or several, and decide for yourself whom to pursue or retain. Everything else in your transition keeps running in Separate Ways alongside it.
Attorney help
Trusted Attorney options for your area
Family law. Serves your county.
Family law. Consultations this week.
Family law. Serves your county.
Separate Ways does not rank attorneys and does not choose one for you.
Attorney discovery and consultation coordination through Separate Ways is free to the consumer. Any legal fees are between you and the attorney you choose.
Provenance
What is a Separate Ways Trusted Attorney?
A Separate Ways Trusted Attorney is not simply someone whose name appears in a directory. Trusted Attorneys separately apply to participate, provide their own professional and licensing information, identify the jurisdictions they serve, accept the applicable terms, and go through the Separate Ways review process. Only attorneys deliberately approved into the Trusted Attorney Network can be eligible for presentation through the Separate Ways attorney-help process.
A public directory listing, where one exists on a local Separate Ways guide, does not mean that attorney or firm is a Trusted Attorney, is participating with Separate Ways, is accepting clients, or has been recommended by Separate Ways.
Questions to ask a divorce attorney before hiring them
- 01How much of your practice is divorce or family law?
- 02Are you licensed and in good standing in the state where my case would be handled?
- 03Have you handled matters involving the kinds of issues present in my divorce?
- 04Who will actually work on my case: you, another attorney, a paralegal or a team?
- 05How do you communicate with clients, and how quickly should I expect a response?
- 06How do you charge for your services?
- 07Is there a retainer, and how is it used or replenished?
- 08What work could I handle myself to use attorney time more efficiently?
- 09What would you want me to organize or bring before we begin?
- 10What would the next step be if I decided to hire you?
Sources
The American Bar Association advises consumers to ask about a lawyer's experience, areas of practice, who will work on the matter, communication, fees and costs before hiring.
Preparation
What should I organize before talking to a divorce attorney?
- 01Important dates and current court papers
- 02State/county where the divorce is or may be filed
- 03Children and current parenting schedule
- 04Major real estate and how it is titled
- 05Bank, investment and retirement accounts
- 06Business interests
- 07Major debts and monthly obligations
- 08Income and employment information
- 09Existing agreements or court orders
- 10Your biggest unresolved questions
Separate Ways Divorce Scope is designed to help you capture the high-level picture once so you are not reconstructing it from memory every time you need professional help.
Local guidance
Find divorce attorney guidance by state and city
Live state guides
Find a Divorce Attorney in UtahUtah-specific attorney preparation, Trusted Attorney help, and local city guides.Utah is the first live state in an expanding national system. More state guides are being added over time.
Why get organized before you hire a divorce attorney?
Attorney time is most useful when it is focused on the work that requires legal judgment. Organizing your basic facts, questions and documents beforehand can help you explain your situation more clearly and have a more productive conversation about what legal help you may need.
Separate Ways does not tell an attorney how to handle your case and does not give legal advice. The goal is simpler: help you arrive better organized and keep the rest of your divorce transition from being scattered across notes, emails and disconnected professionals.
Common questions
- How do I find a good divorce attorney?
- Start by confirming the attorney handles divorce or family law in the state where your case would be handled. Then compare attorneys on experience, communication, fees, availability and how they would approach the work you may need. Separate Ways can help you organize your situation and request Trusted Attorney options when eligible options are available in your area, but you decide whom to contact and hire.
- Does Separate Ways recommend the best divorce attorney for me?
- No. Separate Ways does not decide which attorney is best for you and does not rank attorneys based on the facts of your divorce. Eligible Trusted Attorney options may be presented based on objective operational factors such as approved network status, jurisdiction, service area and availability. You review the options and make the decision.
- Is Separate Ways an attorney directory?
- No. The main Separate Ways attorney-help experience is not a public directory. You use the free Separate Ways app to get organized and request attorney help when you want it. Some local educational pages may contain neutral legacy directory references, but those listings are separate from the Separate Ways Trusted Attorney Network.
- Is it free to find an attorney through Separate Ways?
- Using the Separate Ways app, requesting attorney help and receiving Separate Ways concierge coordination is free to the consumer. If you decide to hire an attorney, that attorney's legal fees and engagement terms are separate and are between you and the attorney.
- Can I speak with more than one divorce attorney before choosing?
- Yes. When attorney options are available, you can review them, set your own priority and request consultations with one or more attorneys before deciding whether to retain anyone.
- Does talking with an attorney through Separate Ways mean I hired them?
- No. Reviewing an attorney profile, prioritizing an option or having a consultation does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship. The attorney's own engagement process determines whether representation begins.
- What if I already have a divorce attorney?
- You can still use Separate Ways to organize your divorce and manage the broader transition. If you already have counsel, Separate Ways should not automatically start an attorney-help request for you.
- Can Separate Ways give me legal advice?
- No. Separate Ways is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, legal representation or legal opinions.
Start free
Start your divorce with Separate Ways
Create your free account and get organized. Use your Divorce Concierge and the tools in My Divorce to manage documents, family, property, real estate and finances. Bring in attorney help when you need it, and decide for yourself who you contact and whether you hire anyone.
Free to start. Attorney legal fees are separate if you decide to hire one.
Separate Ways is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, legal representation or legal opinions. Separate Ways does not select counsel for consumers based on the substantive facts of a divorce. Attorney options, when available, are presented using objective operational eligibility criteria. The consumer decides whom to contact, consult and retain. Reviewing an attorney, prioritizing an option or participating in a consultation does not by itself create an attorney-client relationship.