You’ve spent years buying goods and possibly property with another person. Now you are splitting and those goods and property need to be divided. How do you divide it? And what if the other person wants more than you think they should get? Together you bought all your furniture and you both REALLY want to keep the living room set you bought together. That’s why it’s complicated.

And good divorce attorneys cost a lot because they are good at arguing why their client should be entitled to more for a wide variety of reasons, and end up getting their clients more than they would have without them.