Online divorce market sees first aquisition as market matures

Added: (Wed Apr 26 2006)

Pressbox (Press Release) - Issue date: 26th April 2006

On April 6th 2006, Online Legal Services Ltd. the company behind the UK's leading online divorce service and other succesful legal based websites completed the acquisition of competitor quickedivorce.co.uk from owners quickedivorce.com Ltd an online divorce service based in Llanelli, Wales.

quickedivorce.co.uk joins Online Legal Services Ltd as part of its expanding portfolio of succesful legal websites.

Online Legal Services Ltd has acquired quickedivorce.co.uk because of the strong position of the quickedivorce.co.uk brand in the online divorce services market. Quickedivorce has been trading since 1999 and has processed over 20,000 divorce cases since it launched.

The quickedivorce service offers consumers a quick, simple and effective way of completing their own uncontested diy divorce proceedings for just �40.00 and compliments the Divorce-Online service which has succesfully focussed on providing managed services to the consumer who require someone else to deal with their divorce for them but not a Solicitor.

Mark Keenan, MD of Online Legal Services Ltd commented �This aquisition, will help us to continue to grow our market share nationally. I am confident that the acquisition will allow us to further improve the quality of service that we give our customers and expand our range of services in the future�.