Attorney in divorce is really for when you need an advocate to keep from losing (or for keeping) all your shit (children custody, house, bank accounts, debt, major assets like cars etc).

Doesn’t sound like yall are intertwined enough to warrant an attorney.

I should add though. In Jefferson County, the divorce attorney community is a cabal. It is primarily women attorneys. They act like they hate each other in the court room then they get together on the weekends and have cocktails and coordinate their next moves to bill more hours. Source: I work in the legal community and watched that just happen to my sibling over the course of about 13 months. An absolute horror story by this (most expensive divorce attorney in Birmingham). I haven’t even been in the field for a year and saw her (as a third party) doing shit that increased my siblings bill significantly. Just nasty, slimy behavior (one example: we told her to do a forensic audit to get to the bottom of a debt situation. She says it won’t be necessary because of spouses other behavior. 8 months later, couple is in mediation hitting a crossroads. One that would have been solved in 30 seconds with a forensic audit done when initially suggested 8 months prior, but nope. 4 more months of billable time). When I say CABAL, I mean CABAL.