Possibly planning to file for divorce this week. Just had a quick question. Is a $2,000 retainer and an estimated $5000 divorce unreasonable? I'm trying to keep as simple as possible without doing a DIY divorce on the Internet or something. I think that's what my STBX wants me to do. He's freaking out over the fact that the attorney I'm thinking about hiring has said he needs a $2,000 retainer and that the a simple divorce/custody agreement will in the end, total about $3000 to $5000, which includes the retainer. For those of you who have gone through this, and I'm sorry if you have, this [censored], how much did you spend? I'm scared I could sign something and lose all of our savings and have STBX hate me and withdraw from the kids even more... I so don't want to go forward with this process!
Me: 38 H: 43 Kids: 2,4 T10 M6 BD: 1/14 11/14: H moves out
