California Divorce About The 6 Month Waiting Period

Today we’re talking about the six month cooling off period. By this time you may have filed your documents.

We’ve talked about that in video one. And then we’ve talked about the service of your documents.

And now we’re talking about the six months cooling off period.

So what that means is that the courts in California, there’s a law that does not allow you to finalize your Divorce until six months have passed.

Now the question we always get is when does that date start?

The answer is it’s not what you think. The six month process does not start when you file your documents.

Your six months process starts when you serve the documents.

So let’s say you file your documents on the 1st of the month and then not serve until the 20^th of the month, that’s when you get them into the hands of your spouse.

That’s the date that the courts jurisdiction of your case. And that’s the date that starts the six months process.

What that means is your official single status the soonest that can happen is six months after the date of service.

Now when you use our service we’ll generally, will get your case in two to three months.

Have it sign by the judge in your hands judgments complete, you’re totally Divorce and you’re just waiting for that six month mark to come to be officially single.

But in most cases when people are representing themselves because the complex nature of the paperwork and confusion and misunderstanding on the process of filling out the forms and filing court procedure normally your case will go much longer than six months just because of you’re unfamiliar with the actual documents on process.

So when you use our service we’ll have it done within two to three months and you’ll be waiting for that six months time period to elapse before it’s actual and official single status in your Divorce.

I hope that makes sense about the six month cooling off period in California.

 

How To Serve Your California Divorce Papers

Today we’re talking about the next step which is how to serve your Divorce paper.

So in the last video we talked about filing the initial documents to summons, petition, case cover sheet and a form called UCCJEA.

If you completed those correctly and you’ve now got those filed with the court you’ll have a case number issued.

You can’t file your documents until the case number has been issued.

So if you’ve already served your documents prior to filing you’re going to have to reserve them.

We see that happened quite a bit amongst folks trying to do their own paperwork. So if you filed your documents you’ll have a case number.

You would have paid your court fee or gotten your fee waiver at the court and now your documents are ready for service.

So there’s couple ways you can go about doing this. Ordinarily the initial divorce papers need to be personally served.

That means it needs to be served on your spouse by someone over the age of 18 other than yourself.

This could be a family friend. It could be anyone that’s not a party to the case. It could be the Marshalls, the Sheriffs.

You could hire a process server. There are lots of options for personal service. Just remember anyone other than yourself.

You can also do it by mail. This isn’t a widely known tactic but it’s one we utilize in our office in amicable cases where folks are trying to get through their Divorce case together, you can do it by mail.

So what we would do if you’re using our service is we would mail the file documents to your spouse.

And all you’ll have to do is sign the document indicating they received them, mail it back to us and we file that with the proof of service.

Now regardless of how you do this you need to file a proof of service with the court.

There’s nothing your spouse needs to sign when it’s done in person.

Whatever you have served them we’ll fill out the proof of service, they’ll give it back to you or if you’re using our service you give it back to us and we will take it through the courthouse and we will file the proof of service.

That’s would starts the sixth month cooling off period process. We’ll talk about that in the next video you’ll receive.

So by serve it by mail you can do it and it has to be someone other than you. You cannot be the one that mails it to him.

You’ll have to have again some neutral third party over 18 not yourself mail the documents and go through this process which is called Notice of Acknowledgement of Receipt which we use because it saves money.

It saves time. It keeps other people friends and family from having to be involved in your case.

And you don’t have to have a process server going throw something in your spouse’s face which doesn’t make most people happy.

So I hope that will make sense on the process of service once your documents are filed.

Please give us a call if you’d like our assistance. I appreciate you watch this video.

I hope you find that helpful and informational.

 

How California Divorce Mediation Works

I want to let you know on this video that some people call us because we’re just a Paralegal Firm.

They know we can’t give legal advice or represent them in court.

So we usually will work with people who have Amicable cases or somewhat amicable.

I want to let you know you don’t have to have all your agreements in place to use our services and here’s why.

The question becomes ‘Tim, what happens if we start using your service and we run into a little difficulty in coming up with the agreements and we get stuck?’

And it does happened. So what we do is we would refer you out to a third party Mediation Service.

It’s someone that we worked with closely who’s also has an affordable business of where they can sit down with you and help you mediate your issues whether it’d be one issue such as spousal support or maybe you guys are in agreement on anything.

That’s what the Mediation is for. They’ll help you establish a line of communication if you’re not communicating well.

And then they’ll help you come up with the agreements on foundation of what’s fair.

Mediation when you have issues or unable to come to decisions on your own regarding the terms of your Divorce Mediation is a fantastic solution.

It keeps the parties talking and you guys will come up with the best. The decisions will be the best interest for both of you with no real winners or losers.

So yes you can use our service even if you don’t have agreements in place.

Part of the process is Mediation if that’s not the case if you’re unable to come up with agreements on your own.

So just keep that in mind. I want to share that with you because a lot of people are unaware that Mediation Services exist.

I love to hear from you.

 

California Divorce | Overview Of The California Divorce Process

I just want to give you a brief overview of what you’re looking at when going through Divorce in California.

When you use a service like ours or should I say when you use our service specifically we break the Divorce process down into three steps because trust me you won’t be happy if we throw everything at you at once.

Number one if someone has to decide either you or your spouse who’s going to file for Divorce. Once the paperwork is filed it needs to be served.

So we’ll prepare the initial documents. You guys decide who’s going to file be the filing party. We’ll file the paperwork.

We’ll get your case issued and the other party will need to be served which we’ll also take care of doing.

We have to get those documents into the other party’s hands either by personal service.

We can do it by mail and there’s some other ways we can go back doing that. That’s step one.

Step two is that parties have to complete all their financial disclosures. There are lots of financial disclosures.

Aside from children Divorce is going to be all about dividing up your property. Your assets, your debts, your house, your IRAs, your cars, your bank accounts, all of that.

We’ll help prepare that for both parties. Then we have to come up with the agreements.

You have to let us know who’s getting what, what are you doing with the kids.

Is there going to be spousal support, child support? We will put all those agreements into the final paperwork which is called the judgment.

And once you guys will sign that we’ll submit that to the court and your case will be complete.

That’s how easy it can be. Call us because everyone has specific circumstances.

So within those guidelines give me a call. I’ll be happy to answer your questions specific to your scenario.

And then we can help you with your Divorce in California. Please call us I’ll be happy to help you with your case.

Our California Divorce Service Serves All Of California

I just want to let you know that we work with clients all throughout California.

We have a systemized way of getting through your Divorce process with you and in your local court in any County in California.

Because we specialized in Divorce we pretty much become the go to service for folks getting Divorce in California because that is our specialty.

And we’ve worked with probably not every court, every county because there are some very small counties up North but all the major countries we’ve certainly worked with.

And I highly experienced in filing Divorce cases all throughout California.

In fact you don’t even have to come to our office if you don’t want to.

And of course if you are out of our local area you’ve probably aren’t going to want to.

But we do handle cases throughout California regardless of where you live we can take care of all the paperwork filing the forms, we’ll serve your forms.

We will actually do the paperwork with the court even though we’re not nearby possibly we will go down there and file usually by mail.

But we do have ways of doing that, working with all the courts throughout California.

So no matter where you’re at we can help you. You will still get that Full Service Divorce process.

Meaning you won’t have to go to court. You won’t have to fill out the forms.

We will take care of that for you. You won’t have to worry about the procedure of the Divorce.

All that will be handled by our offices, by our team. And you will have someone here representing your interest in helping you and your spouse getting through your Divorce.

You won’t have to worry about taking care any of that. We will take care of the entire case for you anywhere in California.

I just want to remind you of that.