Rhode Island Divorce Tips by Attorney Chris Pearsall

What is an Uncontested Rhode Island Divorce? A Rhode Island Divorce Attorney's Perspective

QUESTION:

What is an "uncontested divorce" in the Rhode Island Family Court System?  I keep calling attorneys to ask for the total cost of a basic uncontested divorce in Rhode Island and I keep getting asked by the lawyers I call what do I mean by a basic uncontested divorce.  Shouldn't they know what it is?

ANSWER:

Good question.  Here's the problem.  If you are calling for the price for one then shouldn't YOU know what it is you're asking for a price for?  

I'm not being sarcastic, talking down to you, or belittling you in any way.  

The truth is that you have an excellent question.  Here's the predictament most lawyers will have with your question.  If the lawyer doesn't have a set fee for what the lawyer refers to as an uncontested divorce then how can he or she give you a quote?  The answer.  The lawyer can't.

It might surprise you that most lawyers do not have a set flat fee price for an uncontested divorce because your idea of what an uncontested divorce is versus what it may take to accomplish an uncontested divorce from beginning to end.  If you think an uncontested divorce involves one set of things and the lawyer thinks it involves a different set of things then how can the lawyer give you a price for something that is in your mind that he or she doesn't know.

Consider this Example:

John wants to divorce his wife Margaret.  John calls to get a quote from Attorney Snittle.  John tells the attorney that he and Margaret have agreed to everything and will put it in writing.  They both just want it done as quickly as possible and need an attorney to take them through the process. John asks Attorney Snittle for her charge for this basic uncontested divorce.  Let's imagine that Attorney Snittle actually tells him that it should only cost him $1,000.

John comes in with $1,000 and retains Attorney Snittle's services.  Attorney Snittle is clear that she charges $200 per hour against the $1,000 but if it is as he said then the estimate should be close.  

Here's what happens though.  John's wife Margaret evades service of the divorce papers and Attorney Snittle has to spend extra time tracking Margaret down.  She also has to spend more time dealing with the constable to get Margaret served.  Attorney Snittle asks John to have him and his wife put down in writing and signed before a Notary Public the settlement agreement John and Margaret made and had signed. John says there isn't one.  John expected Attorney Snittle to draw it up for both of them and take care of the signing formalities.  Attorney Snittle believed based upon John's representations that John and Margaret had that covered.  Now John asks Attorney Snittle to draw up an agreement for him and his wife.  Attorney Snittle now has to interview John regarding every aspect of their assets, debts, children, etc... in order to prepare the agreement because she has to be able to give John proper legal advice.  Attorney Snittle also needs the information to prepare the divorce agreement.

Eventually the divorce is completed amicably.  However, Attorney Snittle reasonably gave a price of $1,000 but it was based on incomplete information.  John gets billed for $1,625.00 based on the Attorney's hourly rate agreement.  John claims he is being swindled because he was quoted $1,000 for a basic uncontested divorce and now he is being over charged.

Yet Attorney Snittle was substantially misinformed or was not thoroughly informed by John.  John just wanted the fast quote and that's what he got but his case was not a basic uncontested divorce to Attorney Snittle.  Why?  Because in Attorney Snittle's estimation a basic uncontested divorce does not include a spouse evading service of process.  It also doesn't involve the attorney drawing up the agreement between the parties when she is lead to believe that the parties have already completed their divorce settlement agreement in writing, or that they will put their divorce settlement agreement in writing on their own without additional time by the attorney.  Attorney Snittle provided a quote based on incomplete information and Attorney Snittle was required to do more work because of John and his wife, not because Attorney Snittle is dishonest.

So what did John think?  Did he think a basic uncontested Rhode Island divorce includes taking care of service of process no matter how difficult it is or how much time it takes on the attorney's part to get it accomplished?  It sounds like he did.  Yet Attorney Snittle never said anything like that.

What else did John think?  Did he think that the attorney always prepares the divorce settlement agreement in a basic uncontested divorce?  It certainly seems like that, doesn't it!  Attorney Snittle didn't promise that and was told by John that they agreed on everything and they'd even put it in writing.

See the trouble that can occur if the person asking is not on the exact same page as the lawyer.

The fact is that there is no true definition for a basic uncontested Rhode Island divorce because every couple is different, every case is different, every attorney may have different understandings of it, and neither John nor Attorney Snittle can predict what the other spouse is going to do or not do.

I could give you 3 to 5 different definitions that different lawyers have for their understanding what an uncontested divorce consists of in Rhode Island and they would all be different and have all different estimates.

In this case John believes he was cheated and Attorney Snittle probably believes that John is being unrealistic because he knows the extra work that she had to put into his case.  She may have been able to resolve it amicably, but issues that were not within her quote caused more time to be required and she did the work for that time and still got the case resolved amicably.

An uncontested divorce can be one that is understood by everyone as a case being filed by one spouse and not being opposed by the other spouse.  However, the amount of services that it takes to get that unopposed divorce resolved is rarely the same each time.  Unless the Attorney knows the whole story and the prospective client and the attorney are on the same page about what is and what is not included in the entire divorce proceeding or quote given then the quote is worthless.

Therefore, if this is your method of shopping around for a lawyer to handle your uncontested divorce in Rhode Island Family Court, you need to consider quite a bit more factors and reconsider the manner in which you search for the lawyer.

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Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer Coaching Tip - Understand Your RI Divorce!

It's too easy to pay a Rhode Island lawyer money to handle your representation and then just believe you are handing over your troubles to him or her.  Too many people do it.  Can you imagine what the natural result is?  Lawyers just handle your divorce and you have no clue what is going on because you don't understand what the heck your divorce lawyer is doing.

Consider Giselle's Rhode Island Divorce situation.

Giselle hires Attorney Shelly Melatonin to represent her.  She pays her retainer fee and waits to hear from her attorney.  Giselle gets a questionnaire in the mail and is told to fill it out and send all the information back to the attorney, including a 9 page financial form that she does her best at filling out.  A few weeks after Shelly sends the papers back to her attorney, she get's a voice mail asking her to come in to meet with her attorney.

Giselle meets with her attorney and is told that the paperwork is standard and that she must sign the divorce documents in various places and the Attorney says she'll take care of notarizing the documents.  Giselle trusts her attorney.  The attorney flips from page to page and points to the signature line where Giselle needs to sign and she quickly signs each page.

Giselle feels rushed and isn't sure exactly what she just signed.  Giselle mentions that she wants things to be as amicable as possible with her husband and she is worried about her husband getting upset.  Attorney Melatonin reassures her that he will be fine.  Shelly asks what's next. and her attorney answers that they have to have some of the papers delivered to her husband so he knows about the filing and then they will all start talking about how to resolve things nicely.  Giselle feels reassured.

Two days later Giselle gets a call at work from her husband, William.  He is furiously screaming at her on the phone.  Giselle doesn't understand and is partially in shock.

Giselle can't understand why William is upset.  Giselle calms him down and asks him to bring the papers and meet with her at Dunkin Donuts for a coffee after work.  William is still shouting but reluctantly agrees.

Giselle and William meet at Dunkin Donuts.  William is screaming and waving the papers in a crazed rage from the moment he gets out of his car.  Giselle rushes into the Dunkin Donuts hoping that a public place will calm him down as she tries to figure out why he is all upset.  William enters the Dunkin Donuts and quiets down slightly as he comes over to Giselle and starts to raise his voice again.

Giselle offers to buy William coffee and whatever else he wants and asks him what he wants.  Thankfully it diverts William's anger so he can select something.  Angrily, William orders several dozen donuts to take back to his new apartment and two extra packages of coffee to take home.

Giselle is still puzzled and sits down and waits for William to come over to the table.  William sits down and begins to open his mouth.  The conversation goes like this.

Giselle:  Will, you knew I was filing the divorce papers.  I told you.  So I'm really surprised that you're so upset.  I don't have anyone else if that is what you are thinking.  What is going on?

William:  What is going on?  How could you do this?  What is this crap?  Sure, file for divorce but now you're trying to screw me over.  Don't think for one minute that I'm going to stand for this.  You humiliate me and then want to leave me penniless and keep me from being part of our kids lives.  I thought you were going to be reasonable but I must have been stupid for thinking that any woman could be reasonable in a divorce.  You all want everything isn't it!!!  [William is shouting again.]

Giselle:  What are you talking about Will?

William:  THIS!  THIS is what I'm talking about! [Squeezing the Divorce papers in front of her face so hard they begin to rip.]

Giselle:  May I look at those?

William throws the divorce documents on the table.  Giselle starts to pick them up to read them.

William:  I just can't believe you want this divorce so badly that you went so far as to have a Sheriff serve me at work in front of all the guys at the job first thing in the morning.  I was the talk of the office all day and no one would even talk to me.

Giselle:  [Raising her Voice.] WHAT?!?  I didn't know anything about that or have anything to do with that at all.

Giselle grabs the divorce papers quickly and starts reading them.  The more she reads, the agrier Giselle gets.  The divorce papers ask for literally EVERYTHING and that William be given minimal visitation with his children. The papers even ask the court to award her sole decision-making power for their two children.

Giselle:  Will, I didn't want this.  I didn't even know about this.

William:  Isn't that your signature Giselle?  It looks like it to me!

Giselle:  Yes, but I didn't know that was in there.

William:  How could you not know it was in there?  You signed the damn divorce papers under oath Giselle?  You had to know it was there!

Giselle:  I didn't Will.  I swear I didn't and I'm going to straighten this out right now.  Giselle grabs her celphone and calls and leaves a nasty message for Attorney Melatonin that William is angry with good reason and she wants to know why she wasn't told about all of these things and nothing was said about a Sheriff embarrassing her husband at work.

William:  Well, the damage is already done at work Giselle.  How are you going to fix that?  I'm humiliated.  I can't talk anymore.  I'm just too angry.  I'm getting the best Rhode Island divorce lawyer I can afford tomorrow.  I'm not about to let you or anyone else take me to the cleaners.

William quickly grabs the papers out of Giselle's hands and storms out of the Dunkin Donuts.

Giselle speaks to Attorney Melatonin the next day and demands copies of all the papers.  She also demands an explanation about why papers were delivered to her husband by a Sheriff at work and why in the world all those demands were made in the divorce papers.

Attorney Melatonin:  First, it is standard that service is performed by a Sheriff. It's in the Domestic Rules of Procedure.  The language in the papers you signed is standard.  It's a template Giselle.  As soon as your husband got a lawyer, the lawyer would tell him that.

Giselle:  I just wish I would have known about these things.  I think we're going to war with William now.  He was so upset.

Attorney Melatonin:  I'm sorry that your husband is so upset but this is how it works.  I'm simply doing my job for you.  That's why people find divorce so difficult and get attorneys, because they don't know how the process works and they get all upset.  If your husband asked his own attorney instead of yelling and screaming at you, then he'd know everything is just fine.  It's just paperwork.

Giselle:  Oh.

Attorney Melatonin:  So are you all set now Giselle because I don't like receiving nasty voice mail messages like that on my cel phone in the middle of the evening.

Giselle:  No, we're not really okay.  You're fired.  I want my file documents and I want the balance of the monies I paid for my divorce returned to me right away.

Attorney Melatonin:  Why?

Giselle:  Well, William might have had to get his own lawyer and ask questions to get these answers.  But I already had you as my lawyer and I trusted you.  I trusted you to keep me informed about things and for you to take time to go over and explain things with me that are important and you didn't do it.  Now you've made things worse.  I don't need that kind of lawyer.

Please have my file and my refund check by Wednesday.  I'll come by during lunch break to pick them up.  [Giselle hangs up.]

TIP

Don't put so much trust in your Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer so that you don't think on your own.  Think about what you are doing.  Ask your lawyer questions.  Read Everything!

Lastly, if your lawyer makes a mess as was done in this case, don't be afraid to fire him or her before the mess gets so big that your divorce could never be cleaned up.

ISSUES IN THIS SCENARIO

There are several issues that present themselves here.

First, Giselle trusted the lawyer a bit too much to act in her best interests.  She trusted her lawyer so much that she didn't even bother to read divorce documents that she was signing under oath.  That is a huge mistake on her part.

Second, Giselle shouldn't count on the fact that she paid a decent amount of money to Attorney Melatonin to be her security that her attorney is doing things right in her divorce.  You are the client.  Things should proceed reasonably as you expect and as you request but that only works if you know what is going on and remain informed.

Third, even when you ask your questions and your attorney gives you the answers, don't be afraid to question those answers if your attorney has already done something that has caused a foreseeable mess that you didn't expect or agree to.

What do I mean by the third issue?  

Well, Attorney Melatonin wasn't fully truthful about the service of the divorce documents.  A plain clothes constable in a plain car could just as easily have served William without the traumatic problems that were caused.  William didn't need to be served at work either.  He could just as easily have been called and he might have agreed to meet the constable at a comfortable location for William.  Using a Rhode Island Constable might have kept things reasonably amicable.

Also, there is no set "template" for wording that must be used for men or women when it comes to divorce.  The wording was present because Attorney Melatonin may have a template she uses but to say it's a standard template is rather deceptive.  Attorney Melatonin should have taken the time to go through all the divorce papers with the client and explained the wording and significance with Giselle.

Thankfully, in my humble opinion, Giselle made the right call by terminating Attorney Melatonin.  She should have been told about the options for service of the divorce papers on William.  Giselle also shouldn't have been told its a template.  That very fact that Giselle fired her attorney due to her anger over the situation is likely to calm William back down because it will show him how upset she is with the way William was treated.

Summary

 1.  Think.
 2.  Question.
 3.  Read.

Realize that no one is in a better position than you to protect your own interests. 

I'm Attorney Christopher A. Pearsall and I am "The Rhode Island Divorce Coach."

My Sincere Wishes to All Who Go Before the Rhode Island Family Court,

Chris

One Reason Rhode Island Divorce Lawyers Bill Against Retainers Provided by Divorce Clients?

Rhode Island Divorce lawyers have strayed away from being good-hearted and accepting payment arrangements and smaller retainers from divorce clients. 

Why?

Well, one reason is far from greed.  This story explains one major reason why most Rhode Island divorce lawyers bill against retainers and more and more are asking for larger retainers.

 

* * Attorney Goodheart's Story * * 

Attorney Natalie Goodheart was an experienced Rhode Island divorce lawyer.  When Clementine D. Vorce called Attorney Goodheart and explained her story, Attorney Goodheart was appaulled and entered into an agreement to represent Clementine for roughly a 40% reduced hourly rate.  

Attorney Natalie Goodheart was true to her name and didn't hold Clementine strictly to their written fee arrangement.  Instead, Attorney Goodheart focused on Clementine's needs rather than her own pocket and wasn't sending her a bill every other week despite the mounting hours because Clementine's needs were more important.  

It was not your typical case.  Sydney had filed suit claiming that he and Clementine were married.  Clementine's position was that she wasn't married to Sydney.  Yet Attorney Goodheart believed that Clementine was correct when it clearly appeared that Sydney simply was angry the relationship was over and wanted part of Clementine's assets despite his failure to contribute substantially to those assets during their relationship.

Unfortunately this particular Rhode Island divorce case became more difficult as it continued.  This was not due to Clementine but due to Sydney wanting more and more from Clementine's assets.  

Attorney Goodheart's work hours started mounting up on the case so from time to time she was forced to ask Clementine for a payment against all the hours that hours she was working.

Still, the Rhode Island Divorce attorney kept working for Clementine sometimes without asking for a payment for months despite the increasing hours.  

Finally, Sydney forced the Rhode Island divorce to a trial. Attorney Goodheart warned Clementine that a Rhode Island divorce trial would be costly to prepare for and undergo and could cost between $10,000 and $20,000.

Attorney Goodheart and Clementine had already made several offers to resolve the issues present in the case but they were rejected.  Clementine was understandably fed up.  Clementine informed Attorney Goodheart that she would rather pay her to fight through the Rhode Island divorce trial than to make even one more offer to resolve the case.

Attorney Goodheart prepared extensively for the trial and unlike many cases this was a common law marriage allegation so in the end there would be a winner. 

When the dust cleared Attorney Goodheart had won for Clementine. The Rhode Island Judge found there was no marriage and denied and dismissed Sydney's claims.

Attorney Goodheart's prepared the final bill for her representation at the reduced amount of 60% of her normal fee.  In addition, she decided to offer to write off another $4,000 if Clementine paid the bill in full in 30 days.

Clementine's response was not the positive one Attorney Goodheart expected, especially in light of their "win" at trial.  

Clementine offered to pay Attorney Goodheart 40% of the entire bill as payment in full.  Attorney Goodheart was upset by her client's inability to realize what she was already offering yet she agreed to meet Clementine halfway by writing off approximately 50% of her bill.

Attorney Goodheart was astounded by the response.  Clementine once again offered Attorney Goodheart the same offer after picking apart the Rhode Island Divorce attorney's performance during the case and the trial and clearly indicating that Attorney Goodhearts services were only worth 40% of the entire bill.

In the end, Attorney Goodheart decided that she wasn't about to let that much work go unpaid.  A Notice of Appeal to the Rhode Island Supreme Court was filed and Attorney Goodheart terminated the attorney/client relationship and gave notice that she intended to collect on the entire debt.

This is on reason why Rhode Island Divorce lawyers bill against retainers and are more and more being less "Good-hearted" and requiring higher retainers.  

There are many people who don't pay their divorce lawyers for the good work they do, even when their fees are reduced and the divorce lawyers agree to take a big hit on their fees.  

Several Rhode Island attorneys who had the tendency to be "good-hearted" have shared with me that being "good-hearted" just landed them 3 times more clients that don't pay them than the ones that do and their receivables were huge.  These attorneys lost several times more money than they make without the ability at tax time to reclaim any of their unpaid hours which may be lost forever.  

Many RI divorce lawyers have learned that being good-hearted often leads to bankruptcy because the lawyer needs to be paid and good intentions of clients don't pay very many bills. 

The fact is, many lawyers are not fat cats with condos, summer homes, boats, planes, large bank accounts, etc.....  Some attorneys make much less than clients simply because clients won't pay a good-hearted attorney's bill.

Clients who don't pay their divorce attorneys cause a circular pattern which increases fees and causes rates and retainers to rise.

Perhaps derrogatory jokes about lawyers should end and jokes are more appropriate for the deadbeat clients who cause the polycentric problem of higher retainers and rates that attorneys need to charge to survive.

Yet for those of us who retain an optimistic hope, we are willing to work for a reasonable legal fee for clients who will actually pay our bills.

Authored By:

Christopher A. Pearsall, Attorney-at-Law

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Rhode Island Divorce Coach - Am I Bound to my Divorce Lawyer's Decision?

Question:

During my divorce my Rhode Island Divorce Lawyer entered into an agreement with my spouse's attorney in a stipulation without my approval.  Is the court going to hold me to what my lawyer agreed to?  He didn't have my permission.

 

Answer:

Usually, "Yes."  When you hire a divorce lawyer, that lawyer represents you and acts as your agent.  It's very similar to a power of attorney.  If your lawyer bound you to something, you are going to be held to it by the court and by the other party.  If your attorney did it without your approvable, it may be because the attorney misunderstood some instructions you provided to him or her.  Or, the lawyer may have reasonably thought that it was a decision that is or was well within his or her discretion.  

Remember that when you hire a divorce lawyer you hire him or her for the expertise in the area of divorce and family law.  Your lawyer does have discretion in making various decisions that are in your best interests.  Otherwise, it would be pointless to hire an attorney for his or her expertise yet expect that the lawyer can't make any decisions at all without your say so.  That would nullify the whole reason why the lawyer was hired. 

Authored By:

Christopher A. Pearsall, Attorney-at-Law

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Amicable, Simple, Affordable Rhode Island Divorces are Possible without Lawyers!

Yes, amicable, simple and affordable Rhode Island Divorces are possible without lawyers.

It's true.   Now when I mean that these kinds of  Rhode Island Divorces are possible without the involvement of lawyers I am talking about without a lawyer representing the parties in the courtroom.

Now, I will admit that I probably sit with the minority of Rhode Island lawyers here when I take this position.  Heck, I may even be willing to agree that most other lawyers would not agree with me on this statement at all.  In fact, I may be one lawyer standing out here all alone in an open sea of lawyers giving people hope of the thought of a theme of "lawyers not required" without a single strand of support from a RI family law judge or any other Rhode Island lawyer at all on this position.

In actuality, I can easily see why RI Family Court judges and my fellow Rhode Island lawyers, and particularly fellow divorce attorneys, might have the initial reaction that I am in some sense slandering my profession, belittling what we do, or taking instant offense to my proposition.  Yet I would hope that the more learned colleagues in the profession would consider their actual response rather than merely react to what the initial gut reaction might be.

Notwithstanding any response however, you won't find me wavering one iota from taking the position that people can often do much better representing themselves in a divorce then engaging any one of our thousands of Rhode Island attorneys in our small state.

The fact is, if you extract lawyers who make money from both parties from the divorce scenario, you get two people who have more finances to divide and a better chance to move forward because they do.  That's one plus in favor of not involving lawyers.

Also, if you consider the fact that by and large more nominal cases are reached with an agreement by the actual nominal date assigned by the court when the parties reach an agreement on their own.

Does that mean that I believe there is little or no value in the education or knowledge that we as Rhode Island Divorce Lawyers and Judges have?

Absolutely not!  

What it does mean, is that I believe that a bit too often in the pursuit of careers and sometimes income that there are divorce and family law professionals who,

1)  create issues where they could just as easily resolve them;

 2)  cause conflict when they could establish harmony;

3)  destroy family relationships when they could save or strengthen them;

3)  extend a case and bill clients more when they could simplify the and charge significantly less;

or

4)  assist in ending a marriage when they could save that marriage.
 

Until we as Rhode Island divorce lawyers refocus our energies on the people we serve in such a way that we end conflict peacefully, amicably, and quickly using both legal skills and personal relationship skills, we will never be able to resolve a divorce and preserve a family as quickly, affordably, simply, and as stress free as two spouses who can still communicate with one another.

Yes, amicable, simple, affordable Rhode Island divorces are possible if two people can still talk to one another reasonably in an adult manner, with the help from a Rhode Island Divorce Coach who can economically help them through the process without representing either one of them in court.

It's not only possible, it happens all the time through my office.  All it takes to get started is that first call.  So what are you waiting for?

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Christopher A. Pearsall, Attorney-at-Law

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