INITIAL CONSULTATION $50 OR $175

Case Locations We Serve

LAWYER RATES FROM $290/HOUR**

EXPECTED COSTS FOR A CASE

OUR INITIAL RETAINERS ARE SOMETIMES AS LOW AS $2,500*

Initial Consultations are relatively inexpensive and will remove many of your fears of the unknown and should make it easy for you to decide your next steps. These consultations last about an hour and are done by appointment and in person. Afterwards, you may call the lawyer once free within a week to get more questions answered. Although the first appointment costs $175 up front -

$50 of your $175 is transferred directly to a local charity; if you hire us the same day or if you hire us later and have a High Asset Case you will get the other $125 credited to your account. This Initial Consultation is a great opportunity for a client to evaluate the lawyer and lay the foundation for continued legal work while getting questions answered and legal advice at a special reduced rate. Your Family Law problems no doubt are troublesome and negative; however the above charitable donation at no cost to you creates something immediately positive. Legal advice and answers you get from the Initial Consultation should also make you feel better. And by hiring us, we'll continue to make your journey as successful and gentle as we possibly can.

We are proud to say that over half of the people who take advantage of our initial consultations hire us to work on their cases. Before this appointment we must have your completed Client Representation Application with permission to run your Credit Report if you hire us. Kindly complete this Application and email, fax or mail it to us so we get it 2 days before your initial consult so you will get about twice as much consult time with the lawyer. Our lawyers love to be prepared by doing some research and preparation before talking to you. If you wait to complete this form during your appointment and then give the lawyer a few minutes to review and consider the pertinent information, you will waste much of your scheduled time and we may reschedule you to a later day. Your credit report will help us determine (1) if anyone is damaging your credit or spending your assets which can affect your decisions; (2) if you need a Guarantor when hiring us; and (3) to expedite your case development in splitting assets and debt.

*Our initial retainers range from $2,500 to $5,000 or higher for out of area Clients or ones with very Complicated Cases or Clients with a Bad Credit report.  Examples of complicated cases are ones having a lot of assets, custody fights over children or involving TPO’s. The full retainer fee is due at the time we are hired. When a client’s account credit balance reaches $500, an additional retainer is required if the case is still active. Because terms are always “Pay-in-Advance”, credit balances are not carried for clients. Associate Attorney rates typically are $290 per hour; Marilyn's rates are typically $350 per hour. Before a Client has hired us, legal questions are not answered nor legal advice given over the phone except during a consult appointment.  We are currently accepting Washoe County Clients only.

If you are trying to get a Champagne Divorce on a Beer Income, we are not the right attorneys for you. A good divorce is expensive but you get what you pay for with us. It sometimes costs our Clients $20,000 or more for complicated cases having a lot of assets. It sometimes costs our Clients $2,500 or less for an Uncontested Divorce. Either way we need paid with retainers in advance, otherwise we are loaning money to Clients that is hard to collect. Spending time and money on collections unfairly detracts from serving our paying Clients.

**Hourly rates are not a good criteria for selecting an Attorney. However, our hourly rates are more than competitive in the area and especially when comparing to other experienced Family Law Attorneys that practice Family Law exclusively. We are convinced that our experience, efficiency and dedication allows us to consistently charge our Clients less for their case than the opposing Attorney charges to their “EX” when the same amount of work has been done.