075: Proof Of Income Required For California Divorce Spousal Support Stipulations

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In this episode, we will discuss the proof of income required for your California divorce spousal support stipulations.

During the process of divorce or after your divorce is concluded, you and your spouse can turn into an agreement and this is what a stipulation is.

Stipulations are useful if you are trying to get some type of temporary order. Maybe the court needs an evidence of income and they want to see some type of court order, showing that you are making some income. You could do that on stipulation.

Make sure to listen to the latest podcast to know more about stipulations.

 

 

Divorce And Real Estate With Connor MacIvor

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Divorce And Real Estate With Connor MacIvor

Tim: Alright, this is Tim Blankenship and we are here live with Connor MacIvor. This is our fifth live broadcast.

Connor: Oh, very good!

Tim: And we almost got things wired pretty well. So today we’re talking Real Estate and Divorce.

And I’ve wrote down some questions even for you. And I have some very cool slides. We wanted to share it with everyone.

So let’s take a look. How about that?

Connor: That’s awesome! I appreciate you have me on your show.

Tim: Yes.

Connor: …as well this is such an important topic especially with what you do for a living and what we do as a living.

This comes up and it’s a painful process a lot of the time.

Tim: Yes.

Connor: Very few times is it easy.

Tim: Yes, and if you have property and you have Real Estate and you’re getting Divorce it has to be dealt with.

Connor: Yes.

Tim: In the Divorce one way or another. So I wanted to get these types of videos out there so people know what options they have.

Because usually when they call us they have no idea. The first time let’s say they realized they have to do something is actually call our office and start the services with us.

Connor: Plus a lot of times something that’s interesting to know as well it’s like buying a new car. You go out. You go to the dealership.

You find the car you like. You test drive. You take it out. Prior to that, you’ve probably never seen that car much at all.

After you buy it it’s everywhere.

Tim: Right.

Connor: Everybody has most cars. The same thing when you’re starting to go through the process of Divorce everybody now becomes an expert.

They may have never been Divorced but all of the sudden you’re getting all these information. You got to do this. You got to do that.

This is what you need to talk to this. This is what you need to do. And in essence a lot of people get mislead that way.

Tim: That’s probably the one the biggest challenge that we faces in all aspect of the Divorce is people talking to friends.

We’ve been through the Divorce process or haven’t like you’ve said, and giving them pointers or kind of put things in their head. It kept stirring the pot sometimes.

So you probably do a lot of Real Estate? You’ve been doing this a long time?

Connor: Yes. We got in 1998. So that’s when we started. I started in a couple different smaller brokerages when I’m down in San Fernando Valley.

I was a full time cop at that time. Paris my partner in Real Estate came about the following year.

So 1999 and she settled with Cola Banker for a little while and then REMAX is where we both been since–

Tim: Forever?

Connor: 1999 or 2000 so as far as, do we sell a lot? We’re top 5, top 10.

Tim: Yes.

Connor: It’s just going to depend on month, time of year, number of foreclosings.

Tim: Sure.

Connor: As far as Divorce goes this is something that coming from the background of law enforcement, there’s a lot of Divorce there.

A lot of Divorce amongst attorneys, a lot of Divorce amongst contractors and sheriffs, so—

Connor: Yes, we’ve dealt with that for sure.

 

 

074: Using The Property Order Attachment Form FL-345 For Your California Divorce Judgment

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In this episode, what we will talk about is how to use the property order attachment form FL-345 for your California divorce. We will discuss everything about form FL-345 or the property order attachment.

What we are starting to see is a trend with the courts here that they now wanted to see a property order attachment even if there is no property. in the past we can get away with just marking on the judgment that we don’t have a property to be disposed by the court. but now we started to see a trend of judgment coming back with the court asking that we include a property order and simply saying none in there.

Make sure to listen to the latest podcast to know more about property order attachment form FL-345.

How To Split Proceeds Of Home Sale During Divorce In California

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How To Split Proceeds Of Home Sale During Divorce In California

If you are going through a divorce and own a home, you are going to have to decide to sell or buy the other person out.  If you decide to sell, there are ways you can split the proceeds from the sale of your home during divorce to protect yourself.

Tim: Yes, I had a client of ours who is selling their house, going through Divorce and the concern was how is the check going to be dispersed?

Is it going to go in our joint account? What if my spouse gets through to it first and takes it all out? Is there a way of dispersing the money from the sale to separate accounts or can it be, how can that be?

Connor: That’s a part of the mutual agreement.

Tim: Okay.

Connor: With Escrow, typically, how it’s normally done is both. And it’s going to depend if there’s a Court Decree in place, excuse me.

A Court Decree can label an Escrow account when the money goes in and separate and then it’s divided up by the court whatever the pre-arrangements maybe.

Let’s say it’s one of these easier Divorces, if you can even say that then at Escrow they can drop an instruction where if it’s a 50% split or 30-70 or 60-40 or whatever it maybe, then that particular once it closes after the funds is going to record, then as soon as those funds would typically get diverse.

First by check, they would be wired or separate checks mailed or –

Tim: There’s a way to deal with that?

Connor: Absolutely!

Tim: That’s good.

Divorce Paralegal Or Divorce Lawyer | Santa Monica, CA

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Divorce Paralegal Or Divorce Lawyer | Santa Monica, CA

Most people do not need a divorce lawyer when filing their divorce in Santa Monica, CA.  Santa Monica Divorce Lawyers are only needed when you need legal advice or representation in court.  We are a full service divorce paralegal firm serving Santa Monica, CA and can do everything a Santa Monica Divorce Lawyer can do except give legal advice and represent you in court.

Most divorce cases in Santa Monica, don’t require a Santa Monica divorce lawyer.  We assist clients with their divorce in Santa Monica, CA and can help your complete your entire Santa Monica Divorce case from start to finish.

Hi, if you’re looking for a Divorce Attorney in Santa Monica, I want to let you know that you have some additional resources you may not have thought about that might be suitable for your Divorce.

We’re not a law firm. We’re not attorneys. We are what it’s called a Divorce Paralegal Firm also known as Legal Document Assistance.

And we’re here to provide more affordable services, non-attorney services but we do fill out all the paperwork for you.

We do everything a law firm does for you except give legal advice and represent you in court.

So the reason I bring this up is we want people to be more aware that in Santa Monica if you’re going through Divorce there are other Divorce Paralegal Or Divorce Lawyer | Santa Monica, CA.

You can call our offices. We handle the Santa Monica Court House. We will fill out all the forms just like an attorney will.

We’ll file them. We’ll get your case number. We’ll go down to the court house for you so you don’t have to.

We’ll get the case number issued. We will serve your spouse. We will do all the financial disclosures and prepare all your agreements.

Now we do these in a neutral fashion because we’re not a law firm. And because we’re not attorneys we can work with both of you and your spouse.

So just think about how much money you can save if you have one firm assisting both parties in a neutral fashion preparing all the paperwork for both parties.

And even if you think, ‘Well, Tim we don’t have an agreement yet. And we probably we may need an attorney.’

That’s fine. Use our service just to fill out all the paperwork. Let’s get all your financial disclosures done and then you have options.

You’ve got to the point where all the paperwork is done with the court. Why spend money on an attorney at $300-$400 an hour to have them draft paperwork?

Let us do that for a flat fee we charge. And then if you have to move on with attorneys then that’s great.  But maybe you won’t because in fact there are other options such as mediation which we can help you with.

And help you guys mediate your Divorce, sit down, neutral third party and help you work out the agreements.

Talk about the real issues and get some agreements in place, so, it’s far better than hiring an attorney.

So if you’re looking for Santa Monica Divorce Attorneys, it’s probably why you came upon this video. I want to just get out in front of people looking for attorneys and say, ‘Hey, wait a minute. Give us a call. We might be able to help you.’ even if you will say, ‘Well Tim, I need an attorney.’

No matter what let us do that initial paperwork.

Let us save some money up to that point so if you do need an attorney at least you’ve gone through the point where that $3,000 or $4,000 maybe $5,000 you would have spend up to that point with them doing the same thing we’re doing for you for a couple hundred bucks.

You can use that money for litigation or for mediation services or something along those lines.

Give us a call. Free consultation, let us talk specifically about the issues that you have and then we’ll see if we can move forward and assist you with your Divorce in Santa Monica.

Divorce Attorney Alternative Santa Monica, CA

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Divorce Attorney Alternative Santa Monica, CA

We are a full service divorce paralegal firm serving Santa Monica, CA and are a divorce attorney alternative for your divorce in Santa Monica.  We take care of your entire Santa Monica Divorce including filling out all the forms, filing them with the Santa Monica Divorce Court, preparing all necessary financial disclosures and preparing your final divorce agreements.

We have all the forms and software Santa Monica divorce attorneys have and the Santa Monica divorce court system.

If you hare looking for a divorce attorney alternative in Santa Monica, CA, please give us a call.  We are an affordable alternative to hiring an attorney for your divorce in Santa Monica.

Today we’re talking to the folks in Santa Monica in California about our Divorce Attorney Alternative Service. And that was in mouthful.

So what we are? We are a non-law firm. We’re a Divorce Paralegal Firm. So we are the attorney alternative to going through Divorce in Santa Monica.

So we’re looking for folks who have an Amicable Divorce, so, they’re going to work with their spouse to come up with the agreements outside of court.

And you just need assistance with some of the paperwork and maybe you need assistance with coming to agreements, and you need some assistance with understanding the process of going through a Divorce.

And I’ll tell you what; we get a lot of calls from Santa Monica just because there’s a court house in the area and people want to know what’s the process, how does it work.

That’s some frequently asked questions that we get on a daily basis. And people are usually looking for a way to save money on their Divorce.

And being that we are an Attorney Alternative Service, we are that affordable, flat fee pricing business.

You can go to our website at Divorce661.com and go right to our pricing page. And you’ll see that we have our pricing right there on the website.

It’s a flat fee. It’s affordable. We can help you in some cases avoid having to pay some of the court fees but give us a call because we only specialize in Divorce.

And we do have services in Santa Monica area. We have made this as a specialty of ours. And we’d love to help you explain the process.

You can give us a call. We have a free consultation. And you can use us to prepare all your documents for both you and your spouse as we are a neutral third party.

And we’ll do everything from start to finish. From filling up the forms, we’ll go down to Santa Monica court house and file them, the service, all the financial disclosures, we’ll take care of all the agreements.

We have all the courts software and forms that the courts have and attorneys have.

So you probably won’t need any other service other than ours, if you’re able to come up with agreements with your spouse, otherwise, we’ll set you up with some mediation that’s also affordable, get those agreements in place, get that documented on the appropriate court forms and submit your case.

I just want to let you know about Attorney Alternative Service in Santa Monica. Give us a call when you’re ready.

073: California Divorce Notice Of Case Review Default Letter

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In this episode, we will talk about what you can do if you receive a notice of case review default letter for your California divorce.

We have been talking about the courts sending out notice of case review default letters. What we are seeing is that when your California divorce case has sat with the court for a while, but has not finished yet, the court will review the California divorce case to see if it can be concluded by default.

A default is when the other party does not file a response and is not participating in the case. So if the court sees that a few months have gone by and the Petitioner has not already field the request to enter default form, the court will send out a letter notifying the Petitioner that they need to appear at a hearing to determine if your case should proceed as a default case.

072: Serving California Divorce Petition By Certified Mail

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In this episode, we will tell you how to serve your California divorce petition via certified mail. Serving divorce papers by certified mail is not the normal way of serving California divorce papers. In most cases, you will have to personally serve the divorce papers. But in certain circumstances, you can serve your California divorce papers by certified mail.

When you serve your California divorce case by certified mail, you need to ensure you do “Certified – Return Receipt”. This is because you will need to file the returned certified receipt with the proof of service you need to file to let the court know that your spouse was served.

Service of California divorce papers can only be done when the other party is out of state.

Make sure to listen to the latest podcast for exact details on how to serve California divorce papers by certified mail.

Attorney Referred Divorce Paralegal Firm In Santa Monica, CA

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Attorney Referred Divorce Paralegal Firm In Santa Monica, CA

When looking for a divorce paralegal firm in Santa Monica, CA to assist you with your divorce, why not use a divorce paralegal firm who is trusted by attorneys.  We have a great relationship with attorneys and they trust and refer clients to us on a regular basis.

We have become the attorney recommended Paralegal Firm in all of Los Angeles county for that matter.

We’ve actually become the go-to place for Divorce in all of California. We have clients all throughout California and assist people with Divorce.

But specifically in Santa Monica, we have been referred by attorneys in Santa Monica and other law firms throughout Los Angeles area in California.

People are now referring to us where if an attorney is getting a call and then if someone can’t afford their services or if they have had a client that they’ve been helping and then they’ve ran out of money and then no longer can afford attorney, they’re referring that type of business to us.

So we’re getting a lot of attorney referrals for Divorce. People that can’t afford attorney service or ran out of money or maybe don’t just want to spend the money, they’re being referred to us.

And that says something about our business for an attorney who does Divorce too then refer to us to handle either their clients that can no longer afford their services or just refer in general because they don’t want to spend their money or don’t have the money.

We’re glad that attorneys feel comfortable sending their clients or sending people they’ve spoken to and referring them to our Divorce Paralegal Firm.

So I think it says speaks volume for the level of service that we provide. In fact we even have had attorneys call us who don’t necessarily handle Divorces but they do want to get in to Divorce business or start handling Divorce cases and they’re taking our clients and they’re asking us if we’ll handle the paperwork for them.

So you can imagine, and I won’t bring up names but attorneys are taking your money and then they’re calling us having us to do the work or asking us to.

We haven’t decided whether we’re going to do that or not but they’re asking us to prepare the paperwork while they’re collecting the high fees and billing us out at a different rate.

So, no, I don’t think that’s something we’re going to do because our objective is save people money. And that’s not saving people money.

If you don’t need an attorney, you should be coming direct to us. We can have a direct client relationship with you because we’re licensed and bonded to do that stuff for you.

Going through Divorce in Santa Monica or anywhere in California for that matter, Los Angeles area or any county in California, let us help you save some money.

And your attorneys are referring to us anyways might as well come on over and save some money.

Go to our website at Divorce661.com, our pricing page is right there, flat fees, affordable. Let me help you out and save you some money.

We are neutral. We work with both parties. So that’s your total cost aside from your court fees.

661-281-0266, you don’t have to come to our office. But we will certainly file in your local court house.

071: California Divorce Judgment Forms | Best Way To List Property

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In this episode, we will discuss what is the best way to list down your property on your California divorce judgment forms.

If you don’t properly describe the property on the California divorce judgment forms, your judgment will be rejected. In addition, if you are filing a default California divorce judgment, you need to describe the property exactly as you did on the Request To Enter Default Property Declarations.

Make sure to listen to the latest podcast to know more about the best way to list down your property on your California divorce judgment forms.