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2026 cost estimates for divorce in Florida, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a divorce in Florida costs on average $8,000, typically $4,450-$13,400 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $190 to $385 per hour. A moderate-complexity case typically takes 3-6 months to resolve. Common related costs include court filing fee ($100-$400) and service of process ($50-$100).
Data verified: June 29, 2026
| Complexity | Low | Median | High | Typical Duration |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Simple | $1,450 | $2,900 | $4,800 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $4,450 | $8,000 | $13,400 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $15,550 | $22,800 | $36,300 | 6-18 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$190 – $385/ hour
Median: $290/hr
3-6 months
For moderate complexity cases
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</script>Divorce costs form around two variables that compound each other: how much the spouses disagree on, and how many separate issues (property division, child custody, child support, alimony) are in dispute. An uncontested divorce with no minor children and no real estate can resolve with a single court filing fee and a document-preparation charge. Once custody or asset division is contested, cost accumulates from discovery (formal document exchange), mediation sessions billed hourly, and — in the most complex cases — expert witnesses such as forensic accountants (business or investment valuation) and custody evaluators.
Attorney billing in divorce is typically hourly rather than flat-fee, because the number of court appearances and negotiation rounds is not knowable in advance. A retainer is paid upfront and drawn down as the attorney bills time; complex cases often require replenishing the retainer more than once. Court filing fees and mediation fees are set by the state or county and apply regardless of which attorney is hired.
Take a moderate-complexity divorce matter in Florida. The recorded median total is $8,000, with reported quotes clustering between $4,450 and $13,400. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $700–$2,600, which leaves roughly $5,400–$7,300 of the Florida median as professional time — the part that differs between quotes. One further recorded fee is not itemised above and is not in that total.
At $8,000, the median divorce cost in Florida runs 9% below the $8,798 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Florida carries 3 rows — simple, $1,450–$4,800 at $145–$290/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $4,450–$13,400 at $190–$385/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $15,550–$36,300 at $265–$480/hr over 6-18 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$8,000 is a median, not the middle of the band — $3,550 above the $4,450 floor, $5,400 under the $13,400 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
Florida occupies the 31st row of 51 for a divorce. Its $8,000 median trails the $8,550 table midpoint by $550, which is 6% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
Missouri ($8,100) and Ohio ($8,000) bracket Florida inside a $100 window — narrow enough that 31st is close to arbitrary.
4 tracked states — Missouri, Ohio, Iowa, Mississippi among them — record a median within three percent of Florida's $8,000. The figure sits in the densest part of the divorce distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
Florida ranks 28th of 51 on hourly rate at $290 an hour and 31st on total cost — 3 places apart, enough that the rate is a slightly optimistic guide to the total.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Florida |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | Oregon | $8,850 | +$850 |
| 26 | Arizona | $8,550 | +$550 |
| 27 | Pennsylvania | $8,400 | +$400 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $8,300 | +$300 |
| 29 | Wyoming | $8,250 | +$250 |
| 30 | Missouri | $8,100 | +$100 |
| 31 | Florida | $8,000 | — |
| 32 | Ohio | $8,000 | −$0 |
| 33 | Iowa | $7,950 | −$50 |
| 34 | Mississippi | $7,950 | −$50 |
| 35 | Nebraska | $7,750 | −$250 |
| 36 | New Mexico | $7,750 | −$250 |
| 37 | West Virginia | $7,750 | −$250 |
The rows within ten percent are lopsided: 12 below Florida against 5 above. $100 up or $0 down moves Florida a row, so a downward revision would cost the state far more places than an equivalent upward one would gain — the 31st position is propped up by a thin divorce field above it and a crowded one beneath.
Climbing five places would mean passing Arizona, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Missouri and adding $550 to the $8,000 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Ohio, Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico: $250.
$4,900 short of Hawaii ($12,900), $1,950 clear of Alabama ($6,050).
The $8,000 median divided by the $290 median rate implies roughly 28 billable hours. The peer median is 30 hours: Florida reaches its total in 2 fewer implied hours, because the rate rather than the workload carries more of it.
The 7.9x step from the simple to the complex tier breaks down as 4.8x the hours against 1.67x the rate — 13 hours at $215 becomes 63 hours at $360. Hours dominate, but the rate contribution is large enough to notice.
From $4,450 to $13,400 the moderate band is $8,950 wide, close to the $9,550 peer median. End to end that is 31 hours at $290.
Per month of elapsed time the two tiers are close: about $1,778 a month across the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate matter, and $1,900 a month across the 6-18 months recorded for a complex one.
By implied hours Florida falls to 46th of 51 at 28 hours, 15 places below its 31st on cost — the divorce total arriving on less recorded work.
46% up the $4,450–$13,400 band sits the $8,550 table midpoint, buying 29 hours at $290 against the 28 the local divorce median implies — 1 hour apart.
| Measure | Florida | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $8,000 | 31st |
| Hourly median | $290 | 28th |
| Implied hours | 28 | 46th |
| Simple median | $2,900 | 26th |
| Complex median | $22,800 | 21st |
$290 an hour puts Florida between Michigan ($295) and Georgia ($285) — not the divorce cost pairing.
No other tracked state records $290 as its median rate, so the figure identifies Florida on its own within this dataset.
$8,000 buys 37 hours at $215, 28 at $290, 22 at $360.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 26 | Maine | $295 |
| 27 | Michigan | $295 |
| 28 | Florida | $290 |
| 29 | Georgia | $285 |
| 30 | Ohio | $280 |
Florida moves up the table as complexity rises: 26th at the simple tier, 31st at moderate, 21st at complex, a 5-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$2,900 is 26th of 51 on a straightforward divorce, under Texas ($3,000) and over Iowa ($2,900), $0 over the $2,900 tier midpoint.
$22,800 is 21st of 51 once contested, between Maine ($22,850) and Pennsylvania ($22,600), $1,000 off the $21,800 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $4,800 against a moderate floor of $4,450 — but there is a clear gap of $2,150 between the moderate ceiling of $13,400 and the complex floor of $15,550. In Florida the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Florida | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,900 | 26th | $2,900 | 13 |
| moderate | $8,000 | 31st | $8,550 | 28 |
| complex | $22,800 | 21st | $21,800 | 63 |
$2,900 puts Florida 26th of 51 on straightforward matters, 5 up on its moderate position, and $0 (0%) over the $2,900 tier midpoint.
13 implied hours at $215: 46% of the moderate tier's 28, over 1-3 months.
Texas ($3,000) and Iowa ($2,900) bracket it — a $100 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $2,900 here, against 4 at the moderate row.
$22,800 puts Florida 21st of 51 on contested matters, 10 up on its moderate position, and $1,000 (5%) over the $21,800 tier midpoint.
63 implied hours at $360: 225% of the moderate tier's 28, over 6-18 months.
Maine ($22,850) and Pennsylvania ($22,600) bracket it — a $250 window.
5 states record a complex-tier median within three percent of $22,800, denser than the 4 around the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 24 | Oregon | $3,000 |
| 25 | Texas | $3,000 |
| 26 | Florida | $2,900 |
| 27 | Iowa | $2,900 |
| 28 | Nevada | $2,850 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 19 | Utah | $22,900 |
| 20 | Maine | $22,850 |
| 21 | Florida | $22,800 |
| 22 | Pennsylvania | $22,600 |
| 23 | Illinois | $22,050 |
$8,000 ranks a divorce 2nd of 8 in Florida, under Criminal Defense, over DUI / DWI. At 87% of Criminal Defense ($9,200).
Florida is consistent across practice areas: over the matter types tracked here its rank only moves between 29th (DUI / DWI) and 33rd (Immigration), so its 31st on divorce reflects a general price level rather than something specific to this matter.
The premium Florida carries is close to uniform across practice areas: DUI / DWI runs 4% below its own midpoint and Real Estate Closing runs 12% below its own midpoint, only 8 percentage points apart. Whatever drives the state's price level applies to every matter type here at roughly the same strength.
The largest tracked median in Florida is 5x the smallest, effectively the 5.1x that the typical state records: the internal spread is ordinary even where the levels are not.
0 of 7 matter types rank Florida in the upper third, 0 in the lower, 7 between; divorce is 31st.
In percentile terms it sits at the 40th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,350 | $9,200 | $29,300 | 32 | 31st | −10% | Indiana |
| Divorce | $2,900 | $8,000 | $22,800 | 28 | 31st | −6% | Missouri |
| DUI / DWI | $3,650 | $7,150 | $14,950 | 27 | 29th | −4% | Maine |
| Personal Injury | $1,500 | $4,550 | $13,800 | — | — | −12% | — |
| Immigration | $1,850 | $4,350 | $11,350 | 16 | 33rd | −8% | Wyoming |
| Bankruptcy | $1,400 | $3,150 | $5,100 | 13 | 31st | −12% | Idaho |
| Real Estate Closing | $1,000 | $1,950 | $4,050 | 8 | 29th | −12% | Arizona |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $550 | $1,850 | $5,950 | 7 | 31st | −11% | Wyoming |
Simple tier. $2,900 ÷ $215 = about 13 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,450 a month. The $5,100 step to the moderate tier is 15 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $8,000 to $22,800 is a $14,800 step, mostly work: 35 more hours at $290 is $10,150, while moving to $360 across 63 hours adds $4,410. Work carries 70%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Ohio ($8,000) is $0 light, Missouri ($8,100) is $100 heavy — but the $8,550 table midpoint is out by $550, 6x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $4,450 is 15 hours at $290; $13,400 is 46. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate divorce, that is 3 to 10 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Florida's own recorded figures, $22,800 buys 7.9 matters at the $2,900 simple median — or, counted in time, 63 implied hours against 13, a factor of 4.8 — the two ratios differing because the rate rises with the tier.
Verified June 2026. Filing fees change on the Floridacourt's own schedule; billing models are covered in the legal fees guide.
This tool provides general cost estimates for informational purposes only. It is NOT legal advice. Costs vary significantly based on individual circumstances. Consult a licensed attorney in your jurisdiction for specific guidance.