How to Save Money on Custody Lawyers
The biggest driver of legal cost is time. You can reduce billable time by reducing chaos: one-page summary, clean timeline, and labeled evidence. Educational only — not legal advice.
The “reduce billable time” checklist
- Write a one-page case brief (goals, key concerns, current order).
- Keep a dated timeline (20–40 entries max for the first pass).
- Label evidence (Exhibit A/B/C) and summarize what each exhibit shows.
- Stop sending long message dumps — extract key quotes only.
- Batch updates: one weekly summary instead of daily emails.
High-cost habits to avoid
- Mixing 10 issues in one email with no dates.
- Forwarding 200 screenshots and asking “what do you think?”
- Emotional drafts that require heavy rewriting.
- Not tracking deadlines and forcing emergency work.
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