DIY Separation Agreement

DIY LAWYER is a legal information business that specializes in providing information and assistance to Irish residents which enables them to access the courts without incurring the high costs of the legal profession. DIY LAWYER LTD is the parent organisation of www.diylawyer.ie -  www.diydivorceireland.ie – www.diyjudicialseparation.ie – www.diyseparationagreement.ie and is the developer of legal information websites. DIY LAWYER LTD and the business under its control are not solicitor firms and do not provide legal advice. DIY LAWYER LTD provides computer skills, web marketing specialists, law researchers and legal documents and legal information which enable Irish residents, as lay litigants, make their own applications to the courts in family law matters. DIY LAWYER was founded by Peter P Ryan (BA Hon Public Administration).

As a practising Civil Servant for over 30 years Peter P. Ryan filled many roles including working as a Customs & Excise Officer on the Border, where he specialised in undercover activities. He worked as a part-time Trade Union Representative where he was secretary during the period that the Maastricht Treaty did away with physical borders between States and threatened his members jobs. He was involved in successful negotiations which ensured that the jobs of his members were secured in other worthwhile work areas. He was the Editor of the Customs Journal for over 6 years and an Editor of the Revenue Journal for another 5 years and chief features writer in both magazines. While working on the above he studied public administration and the law and received an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree in Public Administration. 

His experience in representation and the breakdown of information and its delivery in a more simplified and user friendly nature led him to assisting people with dealing with administrative bodies and their regulations, rules, documentation and their plethora of red tape. His ability to read and decipher legislation, statutes, directives, regulations and practices and simplify matters and see things as they are, ensured there was always someone at his door seeking his assistance. He has successfully assisted people in overturning decisions from a wide range of administrative bodies and having their rights recognised and restored. He believes the first answer normally given to member of the public seeking assistance or provision from administrative bodies is NO. His knowledge of administrative case law ensured that NO was never accepted without the full examination of the law in the first instance, the conduct and procedure of the officials in dealing with their citizen's in the second and normal practice prevailing at the time.

It was inevitable that when his own marriage was in difficulty and he went through marriage counselling, mediation, separation and eventually divorce he would see an opportunity to help others in similar circumstances. His first visit to a court office seeking a set of divorce papers and being told that they did not provide these and that he would have to go to a solicitor set the scene for what followed. He researched the law on divorce, the legislative requirements, the circuit court rules and the documentation involved and successfully filed for and got his own divorce. In the same year, 2003, he founded Irelands first dedicated divorce information website www.diydivorceireland.ie to assist people in simplifying the procedures and making their own applications to the court for divorce and it is now without equal in being the most successful divorce assistance provider with referrals from court office staff, citizen's information centres, marriage registrar's, mediators, friends of past customers and even the legal practitioners themselves.

Peter is committed to breaking down the barriers to access to the Irish courts by its citizens without the need to always have to hire solicitors and barristers and incur huge legal fees. He has recently launched Ireland 's first dedicated separation websites www.diyjudicialseparation.ie and www.diyseparationagreement.ie for consenting couples eager to obtain a separation by agreement. His business now operates under the banner DIY LAWYER and his website www.diylawyer.ie is set to provide more information and launch other legal products in the near future. Watch out for diywills.ie later this year.

Peter P Ryan and his business has been featured in the media through many forums including

SEOIGE AND O'SHEA RTE 1

THE MARIAN FINUCAN SHOW RTE RADIO 1

THE LAST WORD WITH MATT COOPER TODAY FM

ANNA LIVIA RADIO DUBLIN CITY FM

THE IRISH INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER (see clip)

THE IRISH EXAMINER NEWSPAPER

And many more local radio shows and local and regional newspapers.