If you can avoid seeing a family lawyer but see lawyers that do the asset separation binding financial stuff where you both agree before going to the lawyer that helps. If you get into the emotional side or either you or her go see a family lawyer with a taste for blood (or fees) before you can sort it out in a friendly matter it gets expensive and the only ones who win are the lawyers.
There are good family lawyers out there, you may have to look hard though, unfortunately it attracts and/ or takes a certain type of person to do family law.
Whereas if you can find a lawyer who does NOT do family law but does binding financial agreements and treats it all as a financial transaction, you get the legal stuff done properly without going to court and wasting time on the emotional crap that costs money.
There are good family lawyers out there, you may have to look hard though, unfortunately it attracts and/ or takes a certain type of person to do family law.
Whereas if you can find a lawyer who does NOT do family law but does binding financial agreements and treats it all as a financial transaction, you get the legal stuff done properly without going to court and wasting time on the emotional crap that costs money.