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Before You File
Florida
Divorce preparation

Stop paying lawyers for work
you can do yourself.

A divorce attorney’s guide to the weeks before you file plus tips to save thousands more!

What
this is

Early in every Florida divorce case, the parties are required to exchange a defined set of financial records, called Mandatory Disclosure. Gathering those records falls to you, and every hour a firm spends reviewing, chasing and organizing them is billed at its hourly rate. Before You File significantly reduces how much of that work your firm bills you for. The hours nobody spends are hours nobody bills.

Before You File, a Florida divorce preparation system, starts at less than one billable hour of a lawyer’s time and will introduce the extensive discovery process, retrieve your bank and financial institution statements for you, keep your file organized throughout the pendency of your case, and most importantly, provide 9 different ways to save on your attorney’s fees.

How you
are billed

Nobody explains how the billing works until you are already inside it.

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So the only question that matters is who spends the hours.

Their meter $325 / hour
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Runs to $1,300 – $5,200
Before You File $0 / hour
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Costs once from $229
What you
are purchasing

Every hour you do yourself is an hour nobody bills you for.

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Price

For only one billable hour.

What you get The full library, yours to keep.
  • ✓Every part, read in any order
  • ✓Every worksheet, fillable or printable
  • ✓High Conflict bonus, free
  • ✓Answers save as you type
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The attorney
behind it
Erica G. Burns, Esq.

Erica G. Burns, Esq.

I have been a member of The Florida Bar since 2015 and started my firm in 2017. I first-chaired more than 30 trials and appeared at over 100 evidentiary hearings. In that time, I’ve watched many clients spend money on attorney’s fees they did not need to spend — not on advocacy, but on the parts of a case that never required an attorney at all.

I created this to help you save on your attorney's fees.
Going through a divorce is hard enough.

Florida Bar member · Florida family law since 2017

Where this
stops

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Before you go further

Is someone in your household making you afraid?

Then preparation isn’t the first thing you need. There’s a free guide for this, and you don’t have to share any information to own it. If you share a device with the other party, read it on one they don’t use.

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Before You File™ is operated by Before You File, LLC, a Florida limited liability company. It provides educational preparation materials for Florida residents. It is not a law firm and does not provide legal advice, legal representation, or document preparation services. Using this site does not create an attorney-client relationship.

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