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LegalZoom.com (Now powered by Wevorce)
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CompleteCase.com
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3StepDivorce.com
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OnlineDivorce.com
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DivorceWriter.com
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MyDivorcePapers.com
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iDivorceForms.com
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GetDivorcePapers.com
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InstantOnlineDivorce.com
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NetDivorce.com
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Price: |
$949 (plus $199 per hour if you need any assistance from a lawyer)
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$299
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$299 (offers 2, 3
or 4 installment payment options that would bump the price to between $314 and $336) |
$139 |
$137 |
$139 - However, there is a LOT of up-selling. There's a $199
premium package - that's an EXTRA $199. There's also a $125 expedited package so you don't have to wait 10-12 days for your docs - but they claim to offer IMMEDIATE
online download.
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$149 |
$129 |
$129 |
$129 |
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Price Fraud: |
None Known - only rampant up-selling |
Yes - $299 for one month only; then $19 per month |
None - no account time limits |
Yes - $139 for one month only; then an unknown amount per month; not revealed on price page |
No |
Yes - $139 for one month only; then $35 per month; not revealed on price page |
No, but no Terms of Use displayed |
Yes - $129 for one month only; then $35 per month; not revealed on price page |
Yes - $129 for one month only; then $35 per month; not revealed on price page |
No. See our No-Fraud Pledge and membership in the Online Divorce Association of America |
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Geographic Scope: |
Nationwide |
Nationwide AND Canada |
Nationwide |
Nationwide and parts of Canada |
Almost Nationwide |
Nationwide |
Nationwide |
Nationwide |
Nationwide |
California Only |
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Specializes in Divorce Only: |
No-does EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Divorce Cases Claimed:We know that the NetDivorce figure is accurate. We don't believe any other actual number in this row. |
Unknown-no claim found |
700,000 users
It's difficult to know what a "user" is. In 2014, they claimed 1,000,000 cases. On September 20,
2012, their site claimed, "has helped over 30,000 couples" and on October 27 2013, it claimed 600,000 cases.
So 570,000 cases in one year and 400,000 in the next year and then a loss of 300,000 cases last year?
All of these seem to be completely bogus claims. This may be the total number of visitors to their
website. |
Unknown - claims to have "helped over 10 million people." They claimed 120,000 for many years.
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500,000 - It was
150,000 last year and it was 30,000 every year for about 10 years before that! Obviously, completely bogus numbers. |
Unknown-no claim found |
Unknown-claims they have "served over 1.2 million people." Who knows what that means.
Possibly this is just the total number of people who have ever visited their website. |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - just says, "many." |
They claim
600,000 cases in 14 years - Ridiculous. They have been in business since February 2016. This is how dumb they think you are. |
30,300 |
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Claims Guaranteed Service: |
Can find no claim of a guarantee of any kind since Wevorce took over! |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Claims Unlimited Support: |
NO! In fact, now that Wevorce controls, it is clear that almost anything is an EXTRA COST! |
Yes - phone and email |
Yes -phone and email |
Yes - phone or email |
Unknown-no claim found |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes - phone, email or live chat Monday-Friday 7 AM - 7 PM |
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Claims Immediate Local Printing of Documents: |
Unknown-no claim found; In fact, with Wevorce, this has become a VERY THIN site in terms of details; Used to be snail mail delivery in 5-7 business days!
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Yes - or Mailing for a Small fee |
Yes - or Free Mailing |
Unknown - no claim. Used to be a 24 hr. delay |
Yes |
No - According to a review on TrustPilot on
1/11/15, "After
filling out the questionnaire, notification said it would take 3 to 10 business
days for paperwork to be completed. It took over a month." That's because
mydivorcepapers.com now has a $125 Expedition Fee. They hold your papers ransom till you
pay. |
No - "your divorce forms can be compiled and completed in as little time as
three to five business days" "the specialists...will make the forms available to download." |
No - Terms of Use: "Once you complete your online interview there will be a review of your forms. That review can take 3-10 days." |
Unknown - No Claim Found |
Yes - take 3-6 seconds depending on your internet speed. |
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Claims Unlimited Immediate Free Changes to Forms: |
Unknown - no claim found; Used to be up to 30 days only! |
No-up to 30 days only - another low quality feature for this high priced service! |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
No - "once submitted they take 48 hours as per our policy" - BBB complaint
8/18/14 |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes |
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Lawyer Referrals Available: |
Oh yeah! Big time. It's clear that all they want to do now is to upsell you to their subscribing lawyers. |
Yes - but to subscribing lawyers and mediators who pay them to refer! This is a conflict of interest.
If your case needs a lawyer, they get paid twice. |
Unknown - Used to be through JustAnswer Legal - at additional cost. |
Unknown-no claim found |
Unknown-no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes - If your case blows up or if you need a lawyer, we refer you free to a lawyer on our sister site, Online Divorce Lawyer. We can usually refer you to a lawyer in your town. |
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Case Review: |
Unknown - no claim found |
No |
No |
Unknown-no claim found |
Unknown-no claim found |
Yes |
Yes - but apparently this is what slows you down to a 3-5 business day delay |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes - DokChek. All of your papers are proofread by a lawyer with 37+ years of experience in California divorce |
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Marital Settlement Agreement Included in Price: |
Yes |
No |
Yes |
Unknown-no claim found |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes - Our Ed West has prepared over 25,000 MSA's. |
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Children Included in Price: |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes |
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Request to Waive Court Fees Included in Price: |
No - but I absolutely could not get the guy on the phone to tell me how much
extra. He just kept saying that I'd find out once I'd hired them. |
Yes |
Yes - Probably; Nothing mentioned.
So check this with them.
Used to be
No - and wasn't even available at extra cost. |
unknown - no claim found and can never get through to them on the phone |
No |
No - "This form is not a required form needed to obtain a divorce." - response to BBB
complaint dated 8/18/14 |
No - they will provide the blank form, but you must complete it yourself |
Unknown - no claim found |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes |
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Claims Dedicated Case Worker Assigned for Same Price: |
Unknown - these guys don't tell you anything up front. |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes - but it is clear from numerous Better Business Bureau complaints that many, if not all, clients never actually speak to their case worker. |
Yes |
Yes |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes - it's either Ed (33+ years experience in California divorce) or Peter (37+ years experience in California divorce)! |
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Uses the Fraudulent Certified Comments Service that Hides Behind a
Private Registration; Displays No Address, Phone Number or Email Address and is Hosted On
the Very Same Internet Server as Their Own Site: |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
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Price Includes State AND COUNTY FORMS: |
Amazingly, yes! This is one of very few revealed details about this service. |
Unknown - no claim |
Yes - states "all required divorce documents" |
No - claims "state Divorce documents" only - no county forms mentioned |
No - "state forms" only; HOWEVER, this company does not even prepare all of your
state docs!! For example, if you go to their Help Center, it is revealed that
they do not prepare the Declaration Under Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction
Act. This is one of the most complex nationwide forms there is. Divorcewriter also does not prepare any of your financial information docs. YOU must
complete these yourself by hand!!! If you have minor children of the marriage, DivorceWriter ONLY COMPLETES ABOUT HALF OF THE DOCS YOU WILL NEED. INCREDIBLE |
No-this site repeatedly says, "all state forms" |
Unknown - no claim found |
No - repeatedly states "state form only." |
Unknown - no claim found |
Yes. There's no way that the big nationwide companies can do this. It's tough to keep up with 58 California counties' local forms. It's just impossible to do it for 3000+ counties nationwide. Almost all cases have some local county forms. Unless you hire NetDivorce, you'll fill them in by hand while standing in line at the court. |
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Price Includes Filing Your Papers at Court For You: |
No - but will refer at an additional fee |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
No |
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Notes: |
LegalZoom was always clueless on divorce - with HUNDREDS of Better Business Bureau complaints. Their business model obviously failed. They've partnered with Wevorce, which is brand new itself, on a hushed-up, hugely expensive up-selling operation to try to recover.
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We think that Complete Case has read our comparison table over this past
6 years.
They've improved a lot. This is a good site and a good company. However, their obviously false claim on the number of cases they've handled and an outrageously fraudulent undisclosed 30-day limit on access to your case has to move them down from second into third place this year.
Many clients delay their cases for good and unavoidable reasons well beyond 30 days and should not be required to pay extra to access your own case after only 30 days.
It is also
incredible that their fee does NOT include a Marital Settlement Agreement. It is
hands-down the most important document in your case! |
3stepdivorce.com claims to have been online since 1997 through its sister company, Divorce Source. But Divorce Source only provided divorce information and blank divorce forms. 3stepdivorce has really only been online providing divorce document preparation services since 2005. Vastly improved website appearance since our last review. This is a solid well-experienced company that has an honest no-nonsense website. We have moved them into second place above completecase.com because of completecase.com's price fraud. |
There are so many lies on this site. At least they have removed their false Better Business Bureau Accredited Business sign since last year. They display unverified client testimonials. They claim falsely that they pioneered online divorce. Online Divorce was pioneered in March, 1999 by NetDivorce's founder and a joint venture partner at divorceweb.com. They claim that their fee is the lowest anywhere when it obvioulsy isn't. This site has been updated but it has become a very thin site - very little information is provided. |
This is a very thin site - almost no info.
Nothing has been changed on this site for many years. And they don't even
prepare all necessary state forms!! YOU must complete MANY forms BY HAND! This is a PARTIAL service only. It is clear from their very few Better Business Bureau complaints that their major problem is that they simply do not prepare ALL of your divorce docs. |
It is fraud to attempt to trick a divorce consumer into hiring them by making you think they have hundreds of
certified customer testimonials when they do not. They run their own bogus testimonial service!!
This site also runs at least another two online divorce review sites, mydivorcedocuments.com and onlinedivorcereview.com, which pretend to review 5 of the sites listed on this analysis
and then recommends mydivorcepapers.com! They try to trick YOU into hiring them by recommending THEMSELVES!!
Ask yourself why an honest competent company would engage in such OBVIOUS FRAUDS. Don't hire mydivorcepapers.com until you have read at least some of their 80 Better Business Bureau complaints. |
Uses a fake Business Consumer Alliance logo.
Very thin site. |
Used to be located in London. Now located in India. Lies about being in business since 2005. It's really since 2013. They are clueless. 104 Better Business Bureau complaints and F-Rated by the BBB.
Last year, they claimed 91,000 verified reviews, but they only had 101. This year, they claim 1240, but go to their site and look at their claimed reviews. All of their reviews are 3-10 words long. Look at the dates on the reviews. They will have several a day for weeks, but at this writing in December 2018, NO reviews for over 3 months.
Uses the same 2 fake testimonials on their website as instantonllinedivorce.com. These guys are bad news. Stay away.
Sister site to instantonlinedivorce.com - uses the same phone number |
Located in India. Lies about being in business since 2002 and having handled 600,000 cases. They've been in business since February 2016. Uses the same 2 fake testimonials as getdivorcepapers.com. These guys are bad news. Stay away.
Also, read their website. It is barely in English. You do not want these folks preparing your divorce docs.
They also don't seem to realize that they have copied over a lot of pages from the getdivorcepapers.com website and left the words, "Get Divorce Papers" on those pages. The guy who runs both companies lives in Dubai. He will be completely unaccountable if you have a problem. |
Like mydivorcepapers.com, we at NetDivorce.com also recommend ourselves. The difference between us is that we recommend ourselves openly on our own site, where you have
an opportunity to use your own common sense to assess our levels of experience, competence, integrity and value. We don't try to trick you with bogus testimonials. All NetDivorce client testimonials are certified by Google, Yelp or the Business Consumer Alliance.
Bear in mind that you will NEVER see a comparison table like this one on any of our competitors' websites. That's because they will only compare themselves to attorneys so that they can pretend to be cheap. We ONLY compare ourselves to our competitors so that you can see that we ARE cheap. |