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Me. After spending $250,000 on incompetent lawyers in my divorce case who have a natural conflict of interest and who generally just phone it in, I fired them a

Me. After spending $250,000 on incompetent lawyers in my divorce case who have a natural conflict of interest and who generally just phone it in, I fired them all and switched to Pro Se representation using ChatGPT’s $200 a month plan. I can represent myself incompetently for nearly free. Bonus. In my state at least, Pro Se representatives are not required to cite case law, which I think is an area that AI is particularly prone to hallucination. By supplying a single PDF of the my state’s uniform civil code, and having my prompt require that all answers be grounded in those rules have given me pretty good results. After nine months of battling her three lawyers with lots of motions, responses, and hearings, including ones where I lost on technicalities due to AI, I finally got a reasonable settlement offer where she came down nearly 50% of what she was asking. Saving me over $800,000. Highly recommended and a game changer for Pro Se. Also “get a prenup” is the best piece of advice you will ever read on HN.

rimbo789 1y ago
On the pre-nup point, check the jurisdiction the marriage is in. I’m in Ontario, Canada, where pre-nups are much less powerful than people assume. For example you can’t use it to kick someone out of the family home nor can prenups determine access to children.
ProllyInfamous 1y ago
I've also been in a (albeit much smaller) civil lawsuit, as the pro se plaintiff, for about six months, in a small claims court. Last week, I finally got an attorney to review a bunch of my LLM conversations / court filings, and it's been a good way to have saved a few thousand dollars (not having to fumble through explaining my legal theory to him — he can just follow along with my selected GPTs). This was only because I got served a countersuit, and figured it was worth a few thousand dollars to not owe somebody on account of not entirely understanding civil procedure. Probably'll end up in Circuit Court, where being pro se is a terrible idea IMHO.

rimbo789 1y ago

On the pre-nup point, check the jurisdiction the marriage is in. I’m in Ontario, Canada, where pre-nups are much less powerful than people assume. For example you can’t use it to kick someone out of the family home nor can prenups determine access to children.

ProllyInfamous 1y ago

I've also been in a (albeit much smaller) civil lawsuit, as the pro se plaintiff, for about six months, in a small claims court. Last week, I finally got an attorney to review a bunch of my LLM conversations / court filings, and it's been a good way to have saved a few thousand dollars (not having to fumble through explaining my legal theory to him — he can just follow along with my selected GPTs). This was only because I got served a countersuit, and figured it was worth a few thousand dollars to not owe somebody on account of not entirely understanding civil procedure. Probably'll end up in Circuit Court, where being pro se is a terrible idea IMHO.