Hi. Still doing Gaman, but it's hard.
Since everyone (including me) is always looking to find divorce lawyers but there are very few recommendations I wanted to let everyone know what ive found so far. If anyone can provide more recommendations or share the pricing/outcome they had, it would be a big help to everyone here. I can update this post with your comments.
1) Sakura International Law office- Itakira Yumi
Initial consulting 1hr costs 11000 in Japanese 22000 in English. Would not say fee structure up front "it depends". Has some great reviews but the high initial fee and lack of transparency is off-putting.
2) Honda law office 11000 for 30 minutes. They spoke English well but I didn't get the "warrior of justice" vibes. I was definitely put back by the 24% nonscaling reward fee.
3) very best- 30 mins free consultation. Kind of stock talk stuff but they were simple to use. The lawyer was the most personable I interviewed with. Reading the contract there are a lot of hidden fees, but it seems fairly standard: retainer 150k kyougi stage 250k Chotei stage, 300k trial. Guaranteed reward (post payment( 300-400k base for divorce + 100k if you got custody.) +10% nonscaling fee on whatever you get. 50k fullday+ 30k halfday travel expenses. Document translation fees 4k per 100 words + mandatory 50k clerical fee.
4) Japanese non-english speaking lawyer (for reference) base fee 300k. Sliding scale reward ranging from 17-4.4% plus a set fee for whatever tier (similar to our income tax brackets) usually this seems to average out 200k-400k more when depending on the different simulations
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