According to mediation expert Peter Sheehy, couples are often not aware of the costs of a court battle. &ldquo;All the asset pools are down, real estate is down or static,&rdquo; a news website quoted Sheehy as saying. <img alt="Sex and relationships, Divorce costs couples a fortune" src="/imagedata/2012/jul/divorce-money.jpg" style="width: 500px; height: 342px; " /> &ldquo;An 800,000-dollar pool may be reduced by 100,000 dollars. &ldquo;Why would you spend 200,000 dollars on legal fees when the asset pool is only worth 800,000 dollars?&rdquo; he said. Research has shown that it costs 300-400 dollars an hour for a lawyer and an expert witness, such as accountants and property valuers, and 4000-5000 dollars per day for a barrister, which includes fees to read legal documents, a major newspaper reported. In the case of custody disputes, a family report will set you back 3000 dollars per couple and then expect to pay 300 dollars an hour for the author to testify at a half-day trial. Starting from stage one, the divorce application costs 577 dollars, daily hearing fee costs 638 dollars, 300-400 dollars per hour Lawyers fees, meditation stage costs 5000-6000 dollars and awaiting trial date costs 20,000-30,000 dollars. In the end comes the trial, which costs 4000-5000 dollars per day Barrister, 300-400 dollars per hour Witness expenses, 3000 dollars per couple, 300-400 dollars for family report. All these expenses sum up to a total of 200,000 for the divorce.

Warring couples regularly burn 200,000 dollars to go their separate ways after their marriage fails to work

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