Online Divorce Reviews exposes fraud, incompetence and misleading business practices in the US online divorce industry.
Since 1999, the online divorce industry in the US has been completely unregulated. A few states have registration of providers located within those states, but they do not regulate the industry in any meaningful sense. Most online divorce providers are located either in completely unregulated states or outside the US in India, Ukraine, the Czech Republic or Mexico.
Local District Attorneys and the FBI have shown no interest or ability to protect the rights and interests of American divorce consumers, particularly against foreign online divorce scammers.
Over the last 20+ years, thousands of unsuspecting divorce consumers nationwide have been harmed financially and legally at one of the most vulnerable and stressful times in their lives.
The biggest online divorce fraud is hidden fees. Scammers state on their top pages that their fee, usually $139 or $169, is for a complete package. However, that $139 or $169 covers you only for the first 30 days.
After 30 days, they hit your credit card every month until you cancel. They get away with this fraud by disclosing the monthly fees ONLY in their Terms of Use , where they know you will not look.
The amounts of the extra monthly fees are not disclosed. The Terms of Use, to which you agree when you sign up, specify that the monthly fees are “subject to change without notice.” You have no idea what your cost will be when you sign up. You have signed a blank check.
Additionally, most online divorce providers claim that they handle divorce in all 3000+ counties located in the US – an impossibility. It is difficult to know the Rules of Court and policies of just one state, never mind all 50 states.
Accordingly, they have no idea what they are doing. They make many mistakes. It is the blind leading the blind.
Their claim that they handle divorce in all 50 states also tells you that they do not offer genuine online divorce – where powerful cloud-based software crunches the heavy state-specific divorce paperwork load.
The scammers have online interviews only. They have no software to prepare the state-specific forms. All document preparation is done manually. Your personal data is cut-and-pasted by someone’s grandma in Ukraine or India. That’s why it takes 12-14 days to get your prepared docs. And it’s also why your divorce papers will be riddled with mistakes.
And you take the additional risk that your personal data is not sold to spammers by these foreign-based frauds. How would you even know that your personal data has been sold until damage has been done to you?
Online Divorce Reviews intends to reduce the occurrence of these frauds and the gross negligence in the preparation of divorce papers by educating US divorce consumers as to the prevailing frauds, negligence and trickery that await them.
Don’t just take our word. Our video reviews will prove what we claim. However, bear in mind that these scammers are very good at fraud. They are fast and they are always experimenting with new frauds and improving or replacing older frauds.
You will see new frauds constantly. That’s why we will show you how to do your own homework and how to analyze online divorce websites to exclude the scams and to narrow down your search to the honest online divorce providers, which we assure you do exist.
Find the online divorce provider you’re interested in below and click on it to check our video review.
We’re adding new reviews all the time.
Don’t get tricked into hiring onlinedivorce.com by its posted $159 fee. That $159 fee covers you only for 30 days. In most states, you will need a lot longer than 30 days to prepare your divorce case, file it at court, serve it on your spouse and get it finalized. They will hit your credit card every month until you cancel. And they prevent you from canceling. We show you their 250+ Better Business Bureau complaints. Those complaints make it clear that when you call to cancel, they put you on hold forever or they tell you that your case worker will call in 3 or 4 days, and that call never comes. Located in Ukraine.
Don’t get tricked by Hello Divorce’s $99 teaser fee. You get to use their software but you can’t ask any questions and no one proofreads or checks your legal documents for accuracy and correctness before they are filed. When your case gets screwed up, they up-sell you to their next fee level, $1100 where they will correct the problems you wouldn’t have if you’d had a caseworker and document proofreading. You will have questions and you will screw up your case if you only have use of the software and have no case worker to ask questions of or to proofread your legal docs before they are filed. The $99 is only to get you “in the door.” They want your $1100 and they will sit back and watch you screw up in order to get that $1100.
Onlinedivorcer.com is based in Mexico City. If you have any dispute with this company, you are on your own. No consumer protection or law enforcement will help you. Also, because they are outside the US, they can sell your personal data. You will be swamped with spam and you may experience credit or other financial privacy invasions. There will be nothing you can do about that. It’s initial fee covers you only for 45 days. In most US states, you will need a lot more than 45 days to get your divorce prepared, filed at court, served on your spouse and finalized. Onlinedivorcer.com has hidden fees which are only disclosed in their Terms of Use where they hope you will not look before you hire them. Yet even the amount of the hidden fees is not disclosed in their terms. Hire this company and you have signed a blank check for your divorce. And again, you are on your own in any dispute
My Divorce Papers tries to trick you into hiring them by claiming that they have over 5000 certified client testimonials, but this video proves that those testimonials are certified by a company owned by the owner of My Divorce Papers. F-rating at the Better Business Bureau.
GetDivorcePapers.com runs 2 frauds – hidden monthly fees and fake client testimonials. One fraud makes you sign a blank check for your divorce. The other fraud tricks you into hiring this company because they make you think they must be very good if they have all of those testimonials. The testimonials are bogus and the monthly fees are hidden. We prove it in this video.
In the online divorce industry, it’s not just many online divorce services that are scams. It’s also websites that get paid by online divorce services to pretend to review them and rank them on their websites. These websites do NOT perform any kind of a fair or real “review” of the online divorce companies they recommend. They just get paid to recommend them. You don’t want to take advice about something as important as hiring an online divorce company from someone who takes money from that same online divorce company to tell you they are good. That doesn’t help you. This scam takes away your free choice to pick your own best online divorce provider,
DivorceNet.com is owned and operated by Martindale-Nolo, a very large and old respected company with many legal and divorce- related products and services. They publish divorce books. They offer published articles, etc. on many non-divorce topics. They run a large lawyer lead generation service that is not doing well. They may be looking for new services, and they’ve recently (2022) begun to handle online divorce from this website. They do nothing but lie to you on their website. Just blatant lies. We did not expect to find this kind of fraudulent nonsense from a company like Martindale Nolo, but here it is.
Located in Jaipur, India. If you have a problem with this company, you will be on your own. No American law enforcement or consumer fraud agency will help you. You also run a greater risk of sale of your personal and financial data because this company will know that you will not be able to take any action against them in the US. You may receive tons of spam or experience credit or other financial privacy invasions. MyOnlineDivorcePapers.com claims to have been in business for 13 years and to have handled 2.4 million divorces (24% of all American divorces in the last 13 years). They also claim to have 398,000 client testimonials. But their website has only been in existence since September 2020 and they only show 28 uncertified client testimonials with no verification at all. They claim an A+ rating at the Better Business Bureau, but don’t even have a BBB page. Their Trustpilot page shows 7 testimonials.
OnlineDivorce.com uses a forwarding service to bring you to their website. They use a number of domain names to advertise. When you click on one of them, it brings you to the top page of OnlineDivorce.com. They do this because their reputation is so bad. They have the best domain name in the industry and they’ve screwed it into the ground with all of their fraud and incompetence. So now they have to hide their domain name.
Divorce is never fun, but if you are fortunate enough to have an uncontested divorce, where you and your spouse/partner are, or will be, in agreement on all issues of your divorce, then online divorce is a wise choice.
Online divorce SHOULD provide you the cost-reduction of powerful cloud-based software that crunches the huge paperwork and procedure loads, the convenience of doing most or all of the process from the comfort of your home and the self-empowerment of knowing that you will be the only source of information in your own case.
That is what is supposed to happen. However, when the 51 American Bar Associations dropped the ball when online divorce arrived on the scene in early 1999, the problem we all now face was born.
All of the usual conmen rushed in to fill the vacuum caused by the lack of insight and responsibility of all American Bar Associations. The Bar Associations could see that if their lawyer members used online divorce, there would have to be huge reductions in the fees those lawyers could charge their clients to churn their uncontested divorces unnecessarily. That could not happen!
So the Bar Associations punted and American divorce consumers have been harmed by the resultant conmen ever since.
Read about a brief history of online divorce in America.
In conjunction with our video reviews above, we provide also the following list of online divorce providers, categorized by their level of danger to you
Take note that these online divorce providers are listed in alphabetical order. They are not listed in any order of ranking or recommendation. Online Divorce Reviews believes that the list below contains only good and honest online divorce providers, but we make no recommendation or guarantee as to the quality of service that will be provided:
NetDivorce – California only
Online Divorce Lawyer – California only
Online Divorce PRO – California only
These online divorce providers are also listed in alphabetical order. These may well be honest and competent providers but they regrettably engage in some misleading business practice that is not as potentially damaging to you, the American divorce consumer, as the rampant frauds of the Very Ugly.
CaliforniaOnlineDivorce.com – Hidden Monthly Fees (video coming)
CompleteCase.com – Hidden Monthly Fees (video coming)
DivorceFiller.com – Hidden Monthly Fees (video coming)
DivorceNet.com – Many False Statements (see video above)
GetDivorceOnline.com – Hidden Monthly Fees (video coming)
HelloDivorce.com – Teaser Fee (see video above)
MyOnlineDivorcePapers.com – Hidden Monthly Fees | Fake Client Testimonials (see video above)
OnlineDivorcer.com – Hidden Fees (see video above)
OnlineIndianaDivorce.com – Hidden Monthly Fees | Fake Client Testimonials (video coming)
Again, these Very Ugly online divorce providers are listed alphabetically. With one exception, it is difficult to list these based upon their level of fraud and incompetence. That exception, the worst and most dangerous online divorce provider, is listed first:
OnlineDivorce.com – Hidden Monthly Fees | Fake Client Testimonials (see video above)
GetDivorcePapers.com – Hidden Monthly Fees | Fake Client Testimonials (see video above)
MyDivorcePapers.com – – Hidden Monthly Fees | Fake Client Testimonials (see video above)
Online Divorce Reviews is a free public service provided by Legal Marketing Systems, Ltd. (LMS). LMS does not receive a commission or any payment whatsoever from anyone as a result of Online Divorce Reviews. What you see on this site is the result of our 40+ years experience in uncontested divorce and 20+ years experience in online divorce. Online Divorce Reviews recommends no online divorce provider on this site. We provide only a list of online divorce providers known to us to be honest and competent. We also provide a list of those online divorce providers to avoid for stated reasons.
Online Divorce Reviews is owned and operated by LMS., which is the parent company of NetDivorce, LLC, which operates netdivorce.com, the best and cheapest online divorce provider in California, and Online Divorce Lawyer, the Best of Both Worlds – the convenience, cost-reduction and self-empowerment of online divorce PLUS the safety and security of a California lawyer on your team.
NetDivorce (and its pre-internet version, California Legal Assistance Centers, Inc.) has been handling uncontested California divorce since June, 1981. Online Divorce Lawyer has been in business since 2018.
The purpose of Online Divorce Reviews is to expose online divorce industry fraud, incompetence and misleading practices for the benefit of American divorce consumers. As part of that process, we do not officially recommend our child company, netdivorce.com. Obviously, we claim that NetDivorce is an honest and competent company. And there are other listed honest and competent companies available nationwide.
Apart from our list of honest and competent online divorce providers, this will be the only mention of NetDivorce on this site. We mention it here only for the purposes of full disclosure.
Note also that our child company’s site offers service only in California. This site, Online Divorce Reviews, deals with online divorce fraud and trickery nation-wide.
Our purpose and goal here is to expose the rampant and ever expanding fraud and trickery within the almost completely unregulated online divorce industry.
As part of that exposure, we will show you techniques in our video reviews which will enable you to do your own homework on any online divorce site of interest. That process will enable you to make your own informed and much better hiring decision.
We assure you that there are good and honest online divorce providers out there. We list them on our top page. We trust you will understand why we cannot recommend any of them. You can check them out and confirm for yourself by using the techniques and considerations shown in our video reviews.
We hope and trust this website will help you in your own divorce. Divorce is tough enough already without all the crap and dishonesty that awaits you in a mostly unfriendly online divorce industry.
Why should you consider listening to Legal Marketing Systems at all? Why should you even read our Online Divorce Reviews website or look at our video reviews?
Because we’ve been on the front lines of divorce since 1981.
In fact, our CEO, Peter J. O’Hanlon, has been hired to handle a California divorce an AVERAGE of 4 times EACH AND EVERY SINGLE DAY since June 1, 1981.
Peter is a barrister (the more qualified branch of the UK legal profession) in the UK since July 29, 1976.
He got his law degree Magna Cum Laude at age 20. He passed the UK Bar Exam, generally regarded as the toughest in the world, on the first attempt, with specialization in family law and tax.
He was called to the Bar of England and Wales at age 21, the youngest possible age. He practiced criminal law in the UK in the late ’70s and later private international business law in California in the ’90s.
Peter owns and operates 1-800-DIVORCE, the continent-wide network of independent divorce lawyers and family law firms.
Peter wrote the world’s first complete
divorce software package (for California divorce) in 1983-84.
In a joint venture, he put up the world’s first fully functioning online divorce website at divorceweb.com in March 1999.
From 1981 to 2001, Peter owned and operated California Legal Assistance Centers, which pioneered divorce by mail in California in the ’80s and ’90s. Peter has been the founder and CEO of NetDivorce, LLC since 1999.
He also founded the Online Divorce Association of America in September 2016.
In January 2017, he created Online Divorce Lawyer, a web-based set of marketing, branding, document preparation and case tracking tools, developed to assist California divorce lawyers to fight back and recover the vast amount of divorce business being taken from them by unqualified, often fraudulent, unaccountable and almost completely incompetent online divorce mills located mostly in Ukraine, India, the Czech Republic or Mexico.
When it comes to divorce issues, uncontested divorce and online divorce specifically, Peter and Legal Marketing Systems know what they are talking about. Peter will not waste your time.