Mediation
The firm serves both spouses as a neutral, represents neither, and prepares the documents you agree on. Commonly split between the parties.
$3,750 without children, $4,950 with children
Mediation packages
Family law
Family law, from the first filing to the final order.
Divorce, legal separation, parenting, support, paternity, and the orders that follow, handled by one Arizona Licensed Legal Paraprofessional, at published fees, with a written scope on every matter.
What the firm handles
Every family matter, explained.
Open any matter for what it involves in Arizona and which fee applies. Court filing fees are separate and paid to the court.
Divorce and dissolution of marriage
Arizona is a no-fault state: one spouse states that the marriage is irretrievably broken and the court takes it from there. The petition, service, disclosure, temporary orders where needed, the division of community property and debt, support, and, where there are children, legal decision-making and parenting time, through the decree.
Drafting from $650 per document. Complete uncontested set $1,250 or $1,650. Negotiation $3,250 or $3,950. Mediation $3,750 or $4,950. Contested matters at $250 per hour.
Legal separation
Everything a divorce decides, on property, support and children, while the marriage itself stays in place. Chosen for religious, insurance or timing reasons, and convertible to a divorce later.
Petition or response $650. Packages as for a divorce.
Annulment
A declaration that the marriage was never valid, on specific grounds such as fraud, duress, or a prior marriage that was never dissolved. The court can still divide property and enter orders for children.
Annulment $650.
Legal decision-making and parenting time
Who makes the major decisions about a child, on education, health care, religion and personal care, and when the child is with each parent. Arizona decides by the child's best interests under A.R.S. § 25-403, and the court starts from the premise that both parents matter.
Included in a petition or response. Standalone parenting plan $450.
Parenting plans
The written schedule and the rules: exchanges, holidays, school breaks, travel, communication, and how the parents will resolve future disagreements. Drafted to be specific enough to work at six on a Friday evening.
Parenting plan $450.
Child support
Calculated under the Arizona Child Support Guidelines from both parents' incomes, the parenting time schedule, and the cost of insurance and childcare. The worksheet, the order, and the income withholding order, done correctly the first time.
Child support documents $250.
Spousal maintenance
Support between spouses during and after the case, under the statutory factors and the Arizona Spousal Maintenance Guidelines. Amount and duration are agreed or argued, then written into the decree.
Included in a petition, response, or package.
Paternity and parentage
Establishing who a child's legal parents are, then the orders that follow: legal decision-making, parenting time, and support. For unmarried parents this is the case that creates enforceable rights on both sides.
Petition $650, response $500. Negotiation $2,750. Mediation $3,000.
Post-decree modifications and enforcement
Orders change when life changes: a move, a new job, a child's needs. Modification requires a substantial and continuing change in circumstances. Enforcement asks the court to make the other party follow the order that already exists.
Petition to modify $650, response $475. Negotiation $2,500. Mediation $2,500.
Relocation
A parent who wants to move a child out of Arizona, or more than 100 miles within it, must give the other parent at least 45 days' written notice under A.R.S. § 25-408, and the other parent has 30 days to petition against the move. The court then decides on the child's best interests.
Motion or response $450. Contested relocation at $250 per hour.
Property and debt division
Community property and community debt, identified, valued, and divided equitably. Retirement-division orders and the division of formal business entities or commercial property wait on the Court's additional qualification and are referred to an attorney until then.
Included in a petition, response, or package.
Orders of protection and injunctions against harassment
When connected to a family matter: the petition, the hearing the other side may request, and the defense when an order has been sought against you.
Petition $200 in the justice court. Hearings at $250 per hour or $850 per standalone appearance.
Third-party rights
Legal decision-making, placement, or visitation sought by a grandparent or another person who has stood in a parent's place, under A.R.S. § 25-409.
Quoted at consultation.
Adoption
Assistance with all aspects of the adoption process, from the petition through the final order, under the family law endorsement's additional qualification for adoption, which the firm holds.
Quoted at consultation.
Collaborative law
Both spouses and their representatives sign a participation agreement committing to settle outside the courtroom. Since January 2025, Legal Paraprofessionals may represent clients in Arizona's collaborative process.
Quoted at consultation.
Within the endorsement, pending the Court's additional qualification
- Qualified Domestic Relations Orders and other orders dividing retirement assets
- Division or conveyance of formal business entities or commercial property
- Appeals to the Court of Appeals or the Arizona Supreme Court
These are part of the family law endorsement under ACJA § 7-210, but the Arizona Supreme Court requires an additional qualification before a Legal Paraprofessional may handle them. The firm will offer them once that qualification issues. Until then it handles the rest of a family matter and refers these pieces to an attorney. Guardianship of a minor under Title 14 is a probate matter and is referred as well.
How a case moves
An Arizona divorce, step by step.
The typical sequence under Arizona law and the family court rules. Your matter has its own dates, and the firm maps them for you in writing at engagement.
- PetitionFiled in the Superior Court of the county where either spouse lives. The clerk issues a summons and the preliminary injunction that keeps property and insurance in place while the case is open.
- ServiceThe other spouse is served or accepts service in writing. Every deadline runs from that date.
- ResponseDue 20 days after service in Arizona, or 30 days if served outside the state, under Rule 24.1 of the Arizona Rules of Family Law Procedure. Without a response, an application for default follows, with a further 10 days to answer.
- The 60-day periodThe court cannot hold a hearing or enter a decree until 60 days after service or acceptance of service (A.R.S. § 25-329). Parents of minor children complete the court's parent information program in that window.
- Disclosure and temporary ordersBoth sides exchange financial information. Where someone needs support, a parenting schedule, or use of the home before the case ends, the court can enter temporary orders.
- ResolutionA consent decree once everything is agreed, or mediation, negotiation, and, if needed, trial when it is not. Spouses who agree on everything before filing can use the summary consent decree process under A.R.S. § 25-314.01, which also carries a 60-day wait from filing.
Three ways to resolve it
Matched to the dispute, priced in the open.
Most family matters settle. The tier depends on how far apart the two of you are, and it can change by written amendment if the matter grows.
Negotiation
The firm represents you alone and settles the disputed terms with the other party or their counsel, then drafts and files the agreement and decree.
$3,250 without children, $3,950 with children
Negotiation packagesRepresentation
Contested matters that cannot be scoped in advance: disclosure, temporary orders, hearings, and trial, with a retainer held in trust. Often combined with flat fees for the phases that can be defined in advance.
$250 per hour, retainer from $3,500
Full representationDrafting only? Petitions, responses, parenting plans, support documents and consent decrees are drafted at flat fees with advice included, from $175 per document, and a complete uncontested set is $1,250 without children or $1,650 with children.
Before the consultation
What to bring.
- Existing orders and filingsAny decree, order, petition, or notice already in the case, and the case number if there is one.
- Financial recordsRecent pay stubs, last year's tax return, and statements for the accounts and debts that will need dividing.
- The other party's full legal nameFor the conflict check the firm runs before any advice.
- The parenting schedule in useWhat the children's week looks like today, and what you want it to look like.
- Your questionsWritten down, in the order they matter to you. The consultation is yours.
- Written SpanishConsultations are held in English. Documents and correspondence can be explained in Spanish in writing.
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Need documents prepared today?
Choose a 60-minute strategy consultation or a 30-minute advice session and pick a time on the calendar. The fee is invoiced by email, and the time is held once it is paid.
Entitled Document Services prepares Arizona court documents right now, with published flat fees and service in English and Spanish.