Most fees (attorney or not) are binding. My first attorney didn't do squat. I still had to pay her $1200. My second attorney didn't do much, no where near what I paid him to do, still I was out another $1500. My new attorney is doing all the work I paid attorney #1 and attorney #2 for....Sorry you are out the money, I know that it must feel like a waste. But look at it this way you and your husband have worked it out which is amazing in the divorce process. I already know of a couple who went through the whole divorce both of them spent over $4000 to get it done...they have since remarried. They look at it as an investment in their future.