“I asked Harriet what it would cost three different ways because I didn’t believe her. The answer was the same every time, and it was the same at the end.”
Leocadia S.Agreed divorce
Family law, Fort Worth · By video across the state
An agreed divorce for one flat fee, start to finish
That covers every paper we draft, the agreement you both sign, the final hearing by video and every call and email in between. What it leaves out is named right here, before you pay anything.
- Court filing fees
- A trial, if your spouse contests
- Home or business appraisals
Fixed
The fee is written into your engagement letter, and it doesn’t move.Patient
No meter running while you think out loud.Bilingual
Every meeting in English or Spanish, whichever you choose.
Flat fees
Four flat fees, and where each one stops
Each fee is everything we charge for the work it names, however many calls it takes. Courts, mediators and evaluators bill you separately, and we tell you what they usually cost before you sign.
Agreed divorce
For spouses who agree, or nearly agree, on the house, the debts and the children.
- Petition, waiver and final decree drafted
- A written agreement for both of you to sign
- The final hearing, by video where the court allows
- court filing and service fees
- a trial if the agreement falls apart
- Term:
- One flat fee, start to final decree
Custody order or change
A first custody order, or a change to the one you have, when the other parent will talk.
- Petition or response, filed and served
- A parenting plan with a holiday calendar
- Preparing for and attending one mediation
- the mediator’s own fee
- a custody evaluation or a final trial
- Term:
- One flat fee for one parenting plan
Child support review
Setting support for the first time, or changing it after a job or a paycheck changes.
- The support worksheet, run on real pay stubs
- The petition, and an agreed order or one hearing
- A wage-withholding order sent to the employer
- collecting support already owed
- filing and service fees
- Term:
- One flat fee, to a signed order
Stepparent adoption
For a stepparent ready to become a legal parent, with the other parent’s consent.
- Petition and consent papers drafted
- Arranging the home study and background check
- The final hearing and the new birth certificate request
- the home study and background check fees
- a contested termination case
- Term:
- One flat fee, through the final hearing
Each fee covers one case in one county. A payment plan over three or four months goes in the same letter.
The lawyers
Three lawyers, and you’ll know which one is yours
One lawyer carries your case from the first call to the signed order. Consuelo, and Yadira who books every meeting, speak Spanish.
Founding partnerConsuelo Galarza
Takes the custody cases and the divorces that aren’t agreed yet. Meets clients in Spanish or English.
Meet Consuelo
Founding partnerHarriet Garrity
Writes the firm’s flat fees and handles agreed divorces from the first draft to the decree.
Meet Harriet
AssociateWyatt Strayhorn
Handles child support and stepparent adoptions, and runs every support worksheet twice.
Meet Wyatt
Clients
Said once the order was signed
“My mother joined every video call so she could follow in Spanish. Consuelo never made that feel like an imposition.”
Abelardo T.Custody change
“Wyatt told me on day one that the background check would be the slow part. It was, and the fee stayed where it was.”
Rhett K.Stepparent adoption
Every family’s case is different. These clients describe their own experience, not a result you should expect.
Questions
What people ask before they hire us
What if my spouse stops agreeing halfway through?
Then the agreed-divorce fee covers the work done to that point, and we quote the rest as its own flat fee before doing any of it. You decide whether to go on.
Will I ever have to come to Fort Worth?
Usually not. We meet by video, you sign electronically or by mail, and many courts hold short hearings by video. When a court wants you there in person, your lawyer is there with you.
Can we talk in Spanish?
Yes. Consuelo Galarza and Yadira Quiroga, who books every meeting, speak Spanish. Court papers are filed in English, and we go through each one with you in Spanish before you sign.
How do I pay a flat fee?
Half when you sign the engagement letter and half when we file, or in three or four monthly payments written into the same letter. The total is the same either way.
Book a video consult
Tell us the kind of case, not the whole story
We’ll write back with a time for a 30-minute video call and the fee that fits. Evenings work; plenty of parents call once the children are asleep.
Phone(817) 555-0148
Hours
- Monday to FridayToday
- 8 a.m. – 6 p.m.
- SaturdayToday
- 9 a.m. – 12 p.m.