Well, some of us were speaking about it.
Here’s a classified ad in today’s Oxford Eagle:
Divorce Services DIVORCE WITH OR WITHOUT children $125.00. Includes name change and property settlement agreement. SAVE hundreds. Fast and easy. Call 1-888-733-7165, 24/7
Search for the number on the internet, and one learns that the same ad is running this week in the Rogersville, Tennessee Review. A Google search discloses instances in Missouri, Alabama, Georgia and the Greenwood Commonwealth.
Anyone have a guess about this one? I can imagine all sorts of things, from phishing for credit card and other data onward. Getting competent help in preparing divorce papers is not one of the things I’m imagining.
Since I’ve repeated the advertisement, in a case anyone comes here seeking a place to get a cheap divorce and isn’t sure from what I’ve written here, I am not recommending you call that number.
Anyone have a guess about this one?
I bet its divorce forms for uncontested DIY
e.g. http://www.filedivorceintexas.com/
They sell a package of fill in the blank forms and written instructions on how to file for irreconcilable differences divorce. A “one size fits all” approach without advice specific to their situation. Sort of like refusing to see the doctor and just demanding a shot of penicillin.
Did you forward to Bar or AG’s office? Or a Chancellor? I routinely report these when I see them in my community. I hear uncontesteds in my county and see the huge mess these people make of the pleadings and the process. I had not thought of them as phishing but certainly they could at least get names, birth dates, social security numbers, and addresses – and the credit for the children is probably not messed up so would be available for use. Hmmmm.
As I understand it, they just sell the forms – they don’t take personal information down but leave it to the purchaser to fill everything in and get it filed. Not even a “scriviner’s service,” just the blank paper forms. Even still, the forms and particularly the instructions are giving advice on the law.
“Since I’ve repeated the advertisement, in a case anyone comes here seeking a place to get a cheap divorce and isn’t sure from what I’ve written here, I am not recommending you call that number.”
…or proffering a cheap divorce. (:o)
Zanne, I was planning on forwarding it to the state bar.