{"id":736,"date":"2010-01-05T12:34:17","date_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/shlep\/?p=736"},"modified":"2010-01-05T12:35:16","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T16:35:16","slug":"orlando-sentinel-article-about-do-it-yourself-divorce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/2010\/01\/05\/orlando-sentinel-article-about-do-it-yourself-divorce\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Sentinel article about Do-it-yourself Divorce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/os-law-do-it-yourself-divorce-20100103,0,539329.story\" target=\"_blank\">Article<\/a> offers some guidance for Floridians seeking to handle their own divorce.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But as the economy has plunged into recession, lawyers aren&#8217;t seeing as many clients. Conversely, the number of people representing themselves in divorce cases \u2013 instead of hiring a lawyer \u2013 has climbed steadily since 2005.<\/p>\n<p>But how do you navigate the court system and get a divorce? Here are some options.<\/p>\n<p>Why? Probably because it&#8217;s cheaper.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, in 59.9 percent of all divorce cases in <a id=\"PLGEO100100410000000\" title=\"Orange County (Florida)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/topic\/us\/florida\/orange-county-%28florida%29-PLGEO100100410000000.topic\">Orange County<\/a>, people represented themselves. This year \u2013 from data taken through the end of November \u2013 65 percent of people seeking a divorce are representing themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article offers some guidance for Floridians seeking to handle their own divorce. But as the economy has plunged into recession, lawyers aren&#8217;t seeing as many clients. Conversely, the number of people representing themselves in divorce cases \u2013 instead of hiring a lawyer \u2013 has climbed steadily since 2005. But how do you navigate the court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[896],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-consumer"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":738,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions\/738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/shlep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}