If you don't qualify for legal aid, you can still cut down on your legal costs if you are able to agree with your spouse on most issues. You can sit down together, write down everything you agree on, and then take it to the lawyer and ask him to draw up the correct paperwork to make sure that happens. A lawyer can only represent ONE of the parties to a divorce, but what my first husband and I did was to have his (less expensive) lawyer draft the agreement, have my (more expensive) lawyer review it and suggest any changes, and then we added the fees and split them in half. It was simple and cheap.