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Chapter 7
All About Legal Fees
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Legal feesthe two most dreaded words in the English language. If you're going through a divorce and you get a staggering bill from your attorney, you may be hard pressed to think of anything worse besides the breakup of your marriage itself. Why are lawyers so expensive, and how do they charge for services rendered? To penetrate the most inscrutable secrets of this mysterious cabalthe cult of the divorce attorneyread on.
Why Does Your Lawyer Cost So Much?
All lawyers do is talk, right? And didn't someone once say talk is cheap? Not when there's a Juris Doctorate after the person's name. Well, why not?
Lawyers charge a lot because they usually have high overhead: an office, a receptionist, a secretary. Someone has to pay for it, and it's not going to be the lawyer.

 
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