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2026 cost estimates for divorce in Idaho, including attorney fees, court costs, and other expenses.
As of June 29, 2026, a divorce in Idaho costs on average $7,550, typically $4,200-$12,600 for a moderate-complexity case, based on sourced attorney-fee and court-cost data. Typical attorney rates run $180 to $355 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 | $1,300 | $2,650 | $4,400 | 1-3 months |
| Moderate | $4,200 | $7,550 | $12,600 | 3-6 months |
| Complex | $14,250 | $20,900 | $33,200 | 6-18 months |
Last verified: June 2026
$180 – $355/ hour
Median: $265/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 Idaho. The recorded median total is $7,550, with reported quotes clustering between $4,200 and $12,600. Each statutory line below is sized against that median.
Added together the itemised lines come to $700–$2,600, which leaves roughly $4,950–$6,850 of the Idaho 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 $7,550, the median divorce cost in Idaho runs 14% below the $8,798 national average across all 50 states and DC.
Idaho carries 3 rows — simple, $1,300–$4,400 at $135–$265/hr over 1-3 months; moderate, $4,200–$12,600 at $180–$355/hr over 3-6 months; complex, $14,250–$33,200 at $245–$445/hr over 6-18 months — on 4 shared citations. They put it below the midpoint of the table without reaching the bottom quarter.
$7,550 is a median, not the middle of the band — $3,350 above the $4,200 floor, $5,050 under the $12,600 ceiling. Every rank below is out of 51.
Idaho occupies the 38th row of 51 for a divorce. Its $7,550 median trails the $8,550 table midpoint by $1,000, which is 12% — close enough that a single firm's quote can straddle both figures.
West Virginia ($7,750) and Louisiana ($7,500) bracket Idaho inside a $250 window — narrow enough that 38th is close to arbitrary.
7 tracked states — Nebraska, New Mexico, West Virginia, Louisiana among them — record a median within three percent of Idaho's $7,550. The figure sits in the densest part of the divorce distribution, where a rank change of several rows costs only a few hundred dollars.
The two rankings disagree sharply. Idaho attorneys sit 32nd of 51 on hourly rate at $265 an hour, but the state is only 38th on total divorce cost — the recorded matters resolve in fewer billed hours than the rate alone would produce.
| Rank | State | Median | Against Idaho |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32 | Ohio | $8,000 | +$450 |
| 33 | Iowa | $7,950 | +$400 |
| 34 | Mississippi | $7,950 | +$400 |
| 35 | Nebraska | $7,750 | +$200 |
| 36 | New Mexico | $7,750 | +$200 |
| 37 | West Virginia | $7,750 | +$200 |
| 38 | Idaho | $7,550 | — |
| 39 | Louisiana | $7,500 | −$50 |
| 40 | Indiana | $7,450 | −$100 |
| 41 | Tennessee | $7,400 | −$150 |
| 42 | Montana | $7,350 | −$200 |
| 43 | Oklahoma | $7,300 | −$250 |
| 44 | North Dakota | $7,200 | −$350 |
The 38th position is not a stable fact about Idaho: $200 up or $50 down moves Idaho a row, and a ten percent revision in either direction would cross 20 rows, 10 above and 10 below in near-equal numbers.
Climbing five places would mean passing Iowa, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Mexico, West Virginia and adding $400 to the $7,550 recorded here.
Five places down means passing under Louisiana, Indiana, Tennessee, Montana, Oklahoma: $250.
$5,350 short of Hawaii ($12,900), $1,500 clear of Alabama ($6,050).
The $7,550 median divided by the $265 median rate implies roughly 28 billable hours. The peer median is 30 hours: Idaho 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 1.68x the rate — 13 hours at $200 becomes 62 hours at $335. Hours dominate, but the rate contribution is large enough to notice.
From $4,200 to $12,600 the moderate band is $8,400 wide, close to the $9,550 peer median. End to end that is 32 hours at $265.
Per month of elapsed time the two tiers are close: about $1,678 a month across the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate matter, and $1,742 a month across the 6-18 months recorded for a complex one.
A third ordering: by implied hours Idaho is 35th of 51 at 28 hours, 3 places above its cost rank of 38th on cost — more work behind the same divorce money.
52% up the $4,200–$12,600 band sits the $8,550 table midpoint, buying 32 hours at $265 against the 28 the local divorce median implies — 4 hours apart.
| Measure | Idaho | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Moderate median | $7,550 | 38th |
| Hourly median | $265 | 32nd |
| Implied hours | 28 | 35th |
| Simple median | $2,650 | 35th |
| Complex median | $20,900 | 29th |
$265 an hour puts Idaho between Wyoming ($275) and Indiana ($265) — not the divorce cost pairing.
5 other states record exactly $265 — Indiana, Iowa, Missouri, Montana among them — so rate is a coarse instrument in this divorce table.
$7,550 buys 38 hours at $200, 28 at $265, 23 at $335.
| Rank | State | Median rate |
|---|---|---|
| 30 | Ohio | $280 |
| 31 | Wyoming | $275 |
| 32 | Idaho | $265 |
| 33 | Indiana | $265 |
| 34 | Iowa | $265 |
Idaho moves up the table as complexity rises: 35th at the simple tier, 38th at moderate, 29th at complex, a 6-place climb. The state's position on the headline moderate figure understates where it sits once a matter is contested.
$2,650 is 35th of 51 on a straightforward divorce, under Nebraska ($2,700) and over New Mexico ($2,650), $250 under the $2,900 tier midpoint.
$20,900 is 29th of 51 once contested, between Wisconsin ($21,600) and Missouri ($20,750), $900 off the $21,800 tier midpoint.
The lower two bands run into each other — the simple tier tops out at $4,400 against a moderate floor of $4,200 — but there is a clear gap of $1,650 between the moderate ceiling of $12,600 and the complex floor of $14,250. In Idaho the jump into contested work is a step, not a slope.
| Tier | Idaho | Rank | Tier midpoint | Implied hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| simple | $2,650 | 35th | $2,900 | 13 |
| moderate | $7,550 | 38th | $8,550 | 28 |
| complex | $20,900 | 29th | $21,800 | 62 |
$2,650 puts Idaho 35th of 51 on straightforward matters, 3 up on its moderate position, and $250 (9%) under the $2,900 tier midpoint.
13 implied hours at $200: 46% of the moderate tier's 28, over 1-3 months.
Nebraska ($2,700) and New Mexico ($2,650) bracket it — a $50 window.
3 states sit within three percent of the $2,650 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
$20,900 puts Idaho 29th of 51 on contested matters, 9 up on its moderate position, and $900 (4%) under the $21,800 tier midpoint.
62 implied hours at $335: 221% of the moderate tier's 28, over 6-18 months.
Wisconsin ($21,600) and Missouri ($20,750) bracket it — a $850 window.
2 states sit within three percent of the $20,900 here, against 7 at the moderate row.
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 33 | Montana | $2,750 |
| 34 | Nebraska | $2,700 |
| 35 | Idaho | $2,650 |
| 36 | New Mexico | $2,650 |
| 37 | North Dakota | $2,600 |
| Rank | State | Median |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | Oregon | $21,600 |
| 28 | Wisconsin | $21,600 |
| 29 | Idaho | $20,900 |
| 30 | Missouri | $20,750 |
| 31 | Montana | $20,350 |
$7,550 ranks a divorce 2nd of 8 in Idaho, under Criminal Defense, over DUI / DWI. At 92% of Criminal Defense ($8,200).
The state does not rank uniformly. Idaho is 22nd of 51 for Personal Injury but 43rd for Criminal Defense, a 21-place spread across the matter types tracked here, so its 38th on divorce says little about what the other lines cost.
Idaho is not equally priced in every practice area. Measured against each matter's own midpoint, Immigration runs 6% below its own midpoint while Estate Planning / Probate runs 23% below its own midpoint — a 17-point spread between the extremes.
The largest tracked median in Idaho is 5.1x 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 Idaho in the upper third, 3 in the lower, 4 between; divorce is 38th.
In percentile terms it sits at the 26th percentile of the 51 tracked states.
| Matter | Simple | Moderate | Complex | Hours | Rank | vs mid | Above |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Criminal Defense | $3,300 | $8,200 | $24,550 | 31 | 43rd | −20% | Nebraska |
| Divorce | $2,650 | $7,550 | $20,900 | 28 | 38th | −12% | West Virginia |
| DUI / DWI | $3,150 | $6,850 | $14,400 | 28 | 32nd | −8% | Pennsylvania |
| Immigration | $1,600 | $4,450 | $9,850 | 18 | 28th | −6% | Montana |
| Personal Injury | $1,300 | $4,400 | $12,750 | — | 22nd | −15% | Texas |
| Bankruptcy | $1,450 | $3,200 | $4,050 | 15 | 30th | −11% | Missouri |
| Real Estate Closing | $900 | $1,900 | $4,200 | 9 | — | −15% | — |
| Estate Planning / Probate | $500 | $1,600 | $5,500 | 7 | 37th | −23% | Nebraska |
Simple tier. $2,650 ÷ $200 = about 13 hours, spread over 1-3 months at roughly $1,325 a month. The $4,900 step to the moderate tier is 15 more hours at that rate.
Work against price. $7,550 to $20,900 is a $13,350 step, mostly work: 34 more hours at $265 is $9,010, while moving to $335 across 62 hours adds $4,340. Work carries 67%.
Borrowing the wrong row. Louisiana ($7,500) is $50 light, West Virginia ($7,750) is $200 heavy — but the $8,550 table midpoint is out by $1,000, 5x the neighbour error.
Both ends, in time. $4,200 is 16 hours at $265; $12,600 is 48. Over the 3-6 months recorded for a moderate divorce, that is 4 to 11 hours a month — the difference between an occasional file review and continuous work.
Contested against simple. At Idaho's own recorded figures, $20,900 buys 7.9 matters at the $2,650 simple median — or, counted in time, 62 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 Idahocourt'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.