Websites for family law
A law firm website for someone who never wanted to need one
Family, divorce and separation practices. Written for the client, not for other lawyers.
Your reader is deciding whether to trust a stranger with the hardest year of their life. Every sentence lowers that wall or raises it.
People choosing a family lawyer worry about two things: what this will cost, and whether they will be judged. Answer both in the first viewport, with fees as plain as the regulator allows (ideally fixed amounts for defined stages) and the voice of a calm person, not a statute. Credentials decide the shortlist, not the call.
Why "contact us for a consultation" is losing you clients
An unpriced consultation feels like an open-ended bill, agreed to at a terrible moment. Many people research for weeks and never call anyone, because every firm made the first step feel like signing something.
Make the first step small and priced: a defined first meeting, a stated fee (or a genuinely free one, said plainly), and one sentence on what happens in it.
Fixed fees are a website strategy as much as a billing one
If you offer fixed fees for defined work (an uncontested divorce, a separation agreement, an initial consultation), publish them. Yours becomes the only site on the shortlist that answered the visitor’s first question.
A published fee ledger also filters, drawing clients who accept the terms. Present it itemised, unambiguous, no asterisks.
See the thinking, built: a full family law concept site
Alderwood Law is a concept site for a fictional BC family practice: the process in six plain steps, fees agreed in writing before anything starts, and a first step a frightened person can take. No gavels, no pillars, no stock handshakes.
Walk through the concept build → Alderwood Law is a fictional business. Every name and number on it is invented and labelled as such.
Writing legal pages that people and search engines both trust
People search family law in plain words: "how does divorce work in BC", "who keeps the house". Each question gets its own page, written for someone at 1am who has never hired a lawyer. That earns the ranking and the trust before the first call.
Everything stays inside the lines: no outcome promises, no invented case results, nothing the Law Society would frown at.
Questions people ask before they hire
How much does a law firm website cost in BC?
$1,999 one time for a multi-page site, plus $99 a month for hosting and two small edits, back within 48 hours.
Can you publish our fixed fees?
Yes, and they are the strongest thing the site can carry. We publish exactly the fees you set, itemised, with no invented numbers and nothing implied beyond what you put in writing.
Will the content sound like legal advertising?
No. It is plain language, kept inside professional conduct rules, and you approve every page for accuracy before it goes live.
We are lawyers. Can we edit the site ourselves?
Send us the change and it ships within 48 hours under the $99 plan, with the design and accuracy checks intact.
See what a potential client sees at 1am
The free audit walks your site like an anxious first-time client, on a phone, late, looking for a price and a first step, and shows where they give up.
The free Field Test: your site tested the way a customer uses it, back within 24 hours with a fixed price. Five fields, no call.
Last updated 2026-08-31