Fixed price · From $2,800 USD · Paid once
Fixed-price web design for divorce and family law practices
A website your practice owns outright, built for the person searching at eleven at night with the door closed. One price, agreed before I start.
I read every message myself and reply within one business day. Prefer a call? 866.268.2930
You own it from day one. The domain and hosting are registered in your firm’s name, not mine.
Christopher Ross
On the web since 1996. I build these myself.
Sample words. Yours go here.
- 1Plain words. No carousel of a courthouse.
- 2Your way to reach you sits inside the first screenful.
- 3The qualifying questions get answered before the call.
Divorce Web Designer: the facts
| Service | Web design, fixed price, in three sizes |
|---|---|
| Price range | $2,800–$7,500 USD |
| Serves | United States, Canada |
| Based in | Fort Erie, Ontario, working remotely |
| Phone | 866.268.2930 |
| hello@divorcewebdesigner.com |
Think about who is actually on the other end of your website. Somebody sitting in a parked car outside their own house, or awake at eleven at night with the bedroom door closed, typing something into a phone they may be about to delete from their history. They are not browsing. They have maybe four minutes and a lot of adrenaline, and they are trying to work out two things: can this person help me, and what happens if I call.
That is a very specific reader, and most law firm websites are not built for them. They are built for the firm. Long carousel of a courthouse, a paragraph about zealous advocacy, and the phone number in the footer.
I build the other kind. Plain, fast, easy to read on a phone at arm's length, with the next step obvious on every screen. One fixed price, agreed in writing before any work starts, and the finished site is registered in your firm's name rather than mine.
Family law websites here start from $2,800 — Starter $2,800, Grow $4,500, Complete $7,500, same numbers on the pricing page.
This site is the website build: pages, intake, ownership. Local search and Google listings for family law firms are a separate practice at DivorceSEO.com.
Three sizes, not one
You do not lease four thousand square feet to run a two-person practice, and you do not take a hot desk in a shared suite if you are hiring three associates next spring. You size the space to the practice you actually have. Same logic here. Most solos only need Starter. You can move up a size later, and nothing you paid for the first time gets thrown away.
Starter
$2,800
For a solo or a newly opened practice that needs one clear front door.
- A home page, an attorney bio, a page for each of the two or three matters you actually want to be called about, and a contact page
- Every page written for you: plain-language copy, optimized for search engines, in the language a worried searcher actually uses, not a blank template you have to fill in yourself
- Built mobile-first, with your phone number and a way to reach you inside the first screenful
- One intake form that asks the qualifying questions before the call, so you are not spending twenty unbilled minutes discovering the caller lives in another state
- A content management system so you can change your own hours, fees, and bio without booking a developer
- A basic SEO package so the site is legible to search engines from launch day
Grow
$4,500
For a firm of two to five attorneys, or a practice with several distinct matter types.
- Everything in Starter
- Up to twelve pages, including a real bio page per attorney and a separate page per practice area
- Practice area pages written and structured so custody, support, and property division do not compete against each other in search
- Staff training so your office manager can update bios, hours, and announcements without calling me
- A place to publish articles or client FAQs, set up properly rather than bolted on
Complete
$7,500
For a practice ready to run more of its front office through the site.
- Everything in Grow
- Consultation booking wired into a real calendar, with the intake questions asked before the slot is held
- Room for a gated client resource area, if your practice runs that way
- Multi-location or multi-jurisdiction page structure, built so you can add another office later without a rebuild
- Built so pages can keep being added for years without starting over
Every size is a one-time fee. There is no monthly retainer for the site itself. Hosting and the domain renew annually, small amounts, in the range of a phone bill. Financing is available too: 0% interest over 24 months for qualified clients. Just ask when we talk.
Pricing shown in USD. See Canadian-dollar pricing →
Full pricing: what each size includes and what renews each year →
Built for the late-night reader
The hero on this page is the specimen: a quiet, phone-first layout for the person searching with the door closed. That is the craft I sell — not a courthouse carousel, not a stock handshake. Same discipline on every family-law build: plain type, next step obvious, no theatre.
See the portfolio: this shell plus live sites I own →
Photos that make people trust you
A visitor deciding whether to call is reading your site for exactly one thing: is there a real person on the other end of this. A stock photo of a gavel or a handshake answers that question the wrong way. An actual, well-lit photo of you and your team answers it correctly in about two seconds.
I'm not going to show up at your office with a camera, and I'd rather say that plainly than pretend otherwise. What I will do is tell you exactly what to shoot before anyone picks up a phone: the angle, the light, where to stand so the background doesn't compete with the person. You take the photos, I finish them here, correcting color balance and exposure so a headshot taken in a conference room under fluorescent light reads as intentional rather than accidental. That's part of every size above, not a separate line item.
The part that matters in five years
The domain, the hosting account, and every file are registered in your firm's name from day one. Not mine.
This is the whole difference between what I do and the two things most family law firms end up with instead. A template-site vendor gives you a monthly bill and a site that lives on their platform, so the pages exist only for as long as the payments do. A legal directory throws in a "free website" with your listing, which is the sign the mall hangs above your door: it comes down the week you stop paying rent there. Both of them are fine right up until the day you want to leave, and then you discover the thing you have been paying for was access, not property.
The day you want to leave is the day you find out what you actually bought. Better to find out before you sign.
Ask any vendor you are talking to one question: is the domain registered to my firm, and can I move the whole site somewhere else without your permission. The answer tells you everything.
Here, the answer is yes. If you ever decide to move on, you take all of it, and I will help you pack it up.
Who this is for
Three different practices, three genuinely different builds.
- Solo practitioners: one attorney, doing your own intake, comparing me against a $99-a-month template vendor.
- Small firms of two to five attorneys: past the one-page-with-a-headshot stage, needing per-attorney bios and practice area pages that hold their own.
- Mediators and collaborative practices: where the site has to read as non-litigation from the first screen, which a generic legal template will get wrong by default.
How the work goes
The call comes first, about twenty minutes. What kind of matters do you want more of, what kind do you want fewer of, and what should happen when somebody lands on the site at midnight.
The quote comes next, in writing, with a number and a scope you can read in one sitting. If the number does not work, say so and we will cut scope until it does, or you walk away owing nothing.
The build follows. You see it while it is still rough. We fix what wants fixing before anything is public.
The handover is the part people forget to ask about. Domain and hosting in your firm's name, logins in your hands, and a walkthrough so whoever runs your office can update a fee or a bio on a Tuesday afternoon without a support ticket.
What the research shows
I do not invent attorney testimonials. What I can show is the anonymized sample behind the guides on this site, collected 21 September 2026: 45 family law firm sites and 15 divorce mediation sites across the US and Canada (a convenience sample from search, not a random survey of the profession).
- On 59 of 60 domains, the public registration record showed no registrant organization or email. Ownership is something you check in the registrar login, not in a WHOIS screenshot.
- Of 11 law-firm website vendors whose pricing pages could be read, exactly one stated that the domain and hosting account transfer to the client.
- Of 24 readable contact forms on firm sites, 19 asked none of location, children, agreed-or-contested, or whether anything had been filed. The two questions that decide whether you can take a matter at all were almost never on the form.
Those three gaps are why the builds here put domain and hosting in the firm's name, write the pages in plain language, and put a qualifying intake form on every size. The ownership guide, the intake form guide, and the template-vs-fixed-price arithmetic carry the full counts and method.
Common questions
Do I own the site when it is done?
Yes. The domain is registered to your firm, the hosting account is in your firm's name, and the logins are yours. If you move to another designer later, nothing has to be negotiated back.
Is there a monthly fee?
No. Each size is one price, paid once. Hosting and the domain renew annually and they are small, in the range of a phone bill. If you want ongoing help after launch, that is a separate conversation you get to have later rather than a subscription you sign now.
Can you tell me what my site is allowed to say?
No, and I will not pretend otherwise. Attorney advertising rules vary by state and province and they are your bar counsel's call, not mine. What I will do is build the pages so that disclaimers, disclosure text, and required language sit where they need to sit and can be edited by you the day the rules change.
How long does a build take?
Starter is usually three to four weeks from our first call. Grow and Complete run longer, mostly because bios and practice area copy need your review and a round or two of sign-off before they go live. I write the first draft of every page; you're reviewing and correcting, not starting from a blank page, which is where most of the delay used to come from.
I already have a site. Can you work with it?
Sometimes. If it is on a platform you actually own, often yes. If it is on a proprietary builder you cannot export from, a rebuild is usually cheaper than the fight. Send me the address and I will tell you which one you have.
From the guides
Three of the questions firms ask before they sign anything, each with counts from sites I checked rather than opinion.
- Who owns your law firm's website: four assets, four answers, and a vendor email you can copy.
- Monthly-fee template site or fixed-price site you own: the three- and five-year arithmetic and what you hold at the end.
- How many pages a family law website needs: the number by firm size, and the pages firms leave out.
Start with a conversation
Tell me what your practice does and what you want the site to do for it. If I am not the right fit, I will say so and point you somewhere better.
Email hello@divorcewebdesigner.com, or use the contact page if that is easier.
Ready to get started?
I reply within one business day.