Another idea to save fees and drama is to either hire a financial planner specializing in divorce and/or to have a financial divorce plan done. There are a few divorce financial plan programs. One of them is "finplan." Divorce financial planners are usually less expensive than lawyers and they go right to the crux of it and crank the numbers by inputting different asset, income and support numbers into the program and then show projections for each party's likely financial situation for the next few years under different scenarios. Some really good family lawyers have the software and have their paralegal or assistant do the assessment and projections.