Celebrity divorce lawyer launches site to simplify breakups
It’s Over Easy allows couples to handle splits, child custody issues online
LOS ANGELES — For years, Laura Wasser has been one of the go-to divorce attorneys when Hollywood power couples break up.
Now Wasser wants to bring some of the strategies she’s developed during her career representing stars such as Angelina Jolie, Christina Aguilera and Johnny Depp to help regular couples. Her new site, It’s Over Easy, aims to get couples divorced from their computers or tablets, without having to hire an attorney — or ever set foot in a courthouse.
The formal launch of the website — itsovereasy.com — on Thursday will allow couples in New York County and throughout California to handle their divorces and child custody arrangements online. Wasser said the inspiration came from her own online shopping habits, and hearing from people who want to handle their own divorces but find the process too confusing, expensive, intimidating — or all of those things and more.
“I feel like there’s so many people who these days shop online, date online, bank online — maybe they actually even met dating online — and now they’re married. Why not give them the opportunity to do this online?” said Wasser, who doesn’t comment about her celebrity clients but is familiar to readers of TMZ and other celebrity sites.
She said the site’s goal is “changing the face of divorce.” It requires both parties to use the site to complete their judgment, although work is transferable to a lawyer if needed.
The process is based on core questions Wasser asks clients and techniques she uses to try to keep breakups amicable.
Wasser, 49, said she urges people undergoing a divorce or end of a long-term relationship to try to think about the moments they really cared for the other person, such as when they proposed marriage or the birth of a child. “Try to get back to them and realize that there is something good that did come out of your relationship. Focus on that and try to find a way forward,” she said.
It’s Over Easy is part serviceoriented and part-lifestyles site, with Wasser and others sharing their approaches to managing finances during a breakup, coparenting children and surviving holiday gatherings.
Users of the site fill in financial information and details about what days are most important for them to have their children. At the end of process, both sides will have documents that can lead to legal divorces and custody agreements.