California Divorce Judgment Rejected? This Is Why!

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There are many reasons your California Divorce judgment paperwork will be rejected. In fact, there are 3 pages of reasons why your California Divorce judgment may be rejected.

But the main reason your judgement papers get rejected is because when you turn in your divorce judgment package to the court, this is the first time anybody is actually reviewing your documents. (Continue reading below video)

 

When you turn in your divorce judgment, that is the first time the court is reviewing even your initial court documents such as your summons and petition and whether you know it or not, if you did something wrong on the divorce petition, you wouldn’t know it until you turned in your judgment.

Now, while your divorce judgment can be rejected for many reasons, generally the court will review and provide you with a list of reasons why your divorce judgment paperwork is being rejected.

But, they won’t tell you what the correction is. They will just tell you what is wrong with it.

And for the first time in my life, I have seen a reject sheet that didn’t even provide the reasons why the judgment was rejected. If you watched the video, i showed you a reject sheet from a clerk that basically said the paperwork was so messed up that they weren’t going to go to the trouble of providing all the reasons why it was being rejected.

In fact, the divorce judgment reject sheet simply said that there were too many issues and many missing documents and to seek legal advice on how to prepare their divorce.

That is exactly what this person did. They hired us to review and correct and finalize their divorce case. Now, while the clerk was correct and there were many missing forms and errors, i just thought it was so lazy of the clerk to not even provide the reasons why it was rejected.

If you need assistance with your divorce judgment paperwork please give us a call. Correcting California divorce paperwork is our speciality. Or, just save yourself some trouble and hire us before you ever file a single divorce form.

You will save yourself a lot of wasted time and grief.

California Divorce Courts Closed 3/31/2017 For Cesar Chavez Day

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California Divorce Courts Closed 3/31/2017 For Cesar Chavez Day

The Courts close every Cesar Chavez holiday, but people forget it is a holiday that the courts are closed on. It is no fun to take the day off of work to go to court and find out they are closed.

So just a quick note to say that the courts are closed tomorrow, Friday March 31, 2017 for Cesar Chavez Day.

Do California Divorce Papers Need To Be Notarized?

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Do California Divorce Papers Need To Be Notarized?

When it comes to having your California divorce papers notarized, the rules have changed a few times and for now it just makes sense to have your divorce papers notarized in every circumstance. Let me explain.

In the past, if you had an uncontested divorce case in California, where one party files the Petitioner and the other party files a Response, and you end up signing a written agreement, then you did not have to have your California divorce judgment notarized. (see more below the video)

But then we started having some of the judgment clerks requesting that the judgment be notarized, even when uncontested, when the parties wanted to terminate spousal support in long term marriages. You see, with long term marriages, anything over 10 years, the courts would normally reserve jurisdiction on spousal support.

So it seems that where the parties wanted to still waive spousal support, despite being uncontested, we were seeing the judgment clerks reject the judgment and ask that the parties have their signatures notarized. Probably to double check to make sure the spouses are in agreement.

In every California divorce case where you are filing a hybrid divorce or what is known as a default with agreement, the respondent always had to have their signature notarized, because they had not filed a response and the court wants to make sure it is really them.

So more often than not, it is best to just have both signatures notarized. With my business and my divorce clients, I am having both spouses in all situations have their signature notarized so we don’t have to worry about the divorce judgment being rejected.

How To Prepare Quit Claim Deed After Divorce Los Angeles County

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How To Prepare Quit Claim Deed After Divorce Los Angeles County

If you are getting divorced and have a home which one of you will keep or buy out the other, you will want to complete a quit claim deed. All my client who have homes who fall into this category always ask me if I provide this service of preparing quit claim deeds after their divorce.

While I certainly could do this, and have for one or two clients, it is such a simple process that I would rather create more value for my clients and even those people that just find this on YouTube, and show you how to do it by creating this video.

 

How To Request Zero Child Support Order For California Divorce

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How To Request Zero Child Support Order For California Divorce

Whether through my full service divorce clients or through our online do-it-yourself tutorials at California Divorce Tutor, it is a popular request that people do not want to have child support as part of their California divorce. Mostly people say they want to address the needs of the children, including child support, outside of  court just like they did when they were married. Essentially, they don’t want a child support order stating what they have to pay.

 

With child support and requesting that there be no child support, the thing that you are up against is that child support is mandatory in California. However, there is a way to package up your California divorce to request no child support as part of your divorce. You just have to do it a certain way.

So this video will show you what forms and what language you need to in order to achieve a no child support order divorce.

We provide both a full-service divorce solution across California or you are trying to save some money and have plenty of time on your hands, you can always elect to use our do-it-yourself videos at California Divorce Tutor. We have a solution for everyone.

 

St. Patrick’s Day 2017 In Santa Clarita: Restaurant’s Celebrating St. Patricks Day

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St. Patrick’s Day 2017 In Santa Clarita: Restaurant’s Celebrating St. Patricks Day

Egg Plantation Saint Patrick’s Day Santa Clarita 2017

24415 Walnut St
Newhall, CA 91321
(661) 255-8222

The Egg Plantation  will be opening for a rare evening.  On St. Patrick’s Day they will be serving up corned beef and cabbage or Irish stew dinners and will have Guinness on Tap.  Topping this off, at 6:30 there will be a live band complete with a fiddle, penny whistle and more.  There is no cover charge.

For more information you can visit their Yelp Event Page Here

 

Rose And Crown British Restaurant SCV Saint Patrick’s Day Santa Clarita 2017 

24246 Lyons Ave.
Santa Clarita, CA 91321
(661) 255-5048
Spicy Guinness Chili, corned beef and cabbage, and Stout. For more event information visit their Facebook Page Here
The Oaks Grill Saint Patrick’s Day Santa Clarita 2017
26550 N Heritage View Ln
Valencia, CA 91381

(661) 288-1995

Featuring corned beef and cabbage, corned beef sliders, beer and cheese soup all day (March 17).
Wolf Creek Restaurant Saint Patrick’s Day Santa Clarita 2017
27746 McBean Pkwy
Santa Clarita, CA 91354

(661) 263-9653

Serving Corned Beef & Cabbage and green beer. Learn more at Wolf Creek Restaurant & Brewing Company
Pocock Brewing Company St. Patrick’s Day Santa Clarita 2017
24907 Avenue Tibbitts, Ste B
Santa Clarita, California 91355
Below is an image that says it all!
As for me you can be that with St. Patrick’s day falling on a Friday I will be having my share of green beer at one of these fine establishments in Santa Clarita. Perhaps I will see you there.

California Divorce Judgment Rejection Issues Ep. 2

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California Divorce Judgment Rejection Issues Ep. 2

In episode 2 where I review a clients California Divorce judgment rejection letter and the issues and fixes, we discuss issues with the following documents.

FL-130, FL-141, FL-180, FL-170, FL-190

Most people trying to do their own divorce in California will get at least one rejection letter when they submit their judgment to the court for approval. Many people try to do their own California Divorce and when they get stuck they call me for assistance and in this video I go over the reject sheet to talk about the issues.

 

One Hundred Reasons Your California Divorce Will Be Rejected

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One Hundred Reasons Your California Divorce Will Be Rejected

There are over 100 reasons your California divorce will be rejected. Now, I am not going to get into all of them for purposes of this article, but what I have been doing is shooting a video discussing all the issues that can come up when you file for divorce in California and try to do your own divorce.

What I have been doing is, when clients hire me to help fix their divorce paperwork, it taking their divorce rejection sheet from the court and going over all the reasons the divorce was rejected and talking about the issues and how to correct them.

Below is just one such video as an example. You can find others on my youtube channel where as of this writing I have going on 900 videos about California Divorce!

 

I get asked all the time why I put out all this free information and they ask, “if you give it all away for free, how will you be in business?”

This questions usually comes from my competitors who are afraid to give anything away. Their mindset is so short sighted that it makes it easy to stand out in this area of California Divorce.

When you are going through divorce you need to be educated. The majority of my videos are self-help and how-to divorce videos on everything I can think about or learn about California Divorce.

Preventing Identity Theft During California Divorce

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Preventing Identity Theft During California Divorce

One thing that I never get asked is in regards to security. You are about to hire a company to handle your divorce in California which means you will be providing someone all your financials, personal account numbers, date of birth, social security and anything else anyone would need to steal your identity.

And you are trying to find the cheapest company out there to handle your divorce? Possibly someone working from their home or part time? Where do you think your divorce paperwork is going when they are done? Right in the trash.

 

We use Iron Mountain shredding service for all our legal documents. We go through a lot of paper and we shred every single document as we are handling your case. Then, once your divorce is finalized, we shred every document from your file. Everything… Gone…

Time to start thinking about security and who you are providing all your financial and personal information to.

Divorce & Fear | Part 2 of Chapter 2 of Why You Don’t Need A Divorce Attorney Book

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Divorce & Fear | Part 2 of Chapter 2 of Why You Don’t Need A Divorce Attorney Book

Fear

To be sure, getting a divorce is going to change your life one way or another and by how much will vary from person to person. But with change, comes fear. Fear of the unknown mostly. Fear of change. But don’t let fear overpower you or cause you to make rash decisions. Here is where I am going with on this.

When I was talking to you about not listening to your friends and to come to your own conclusions, I was referring to people who will either purposely or with the best of intensions, cause a certain level of fear in you. Specifically by stating that if you don’t get an attorney that you will get screwed in your divorce. I am using that language purposely, because that is usually how I hear it being stated by my clients so perhaps this terminology rings true for you too.

I am also talking about the fear attorneys will try to instill in you as well with similar rhetoric. Let me tell you how this works. You decide you want to speak to an attorney about your divorce. Let’s say you have some questions, which is fine. What most attorneys will do is tell you all the bad things that can happen to you if you don’t hire an attorney and why you need to retain them now to “protect your rights”.

You want to know why attorneys say this? Because they have to. They have to tell you all this scary stuff because it is their job to “fight for your rights”. It is their job to get you the “best deal” in your divorce. It is not that they are bad, necessarily, just that the very nature of having an attorney puts you in an adversarial position with your spouse. I mean it is called, “The Adversarial System”. I don’t want to go to far with this conversation because I have dedicated an entire chapter to this.

What I wanted you to get out of this chapter is that there is a better way. You don’t have to go down the path of the adversarial system. You don’t have to go to court, you don’t have to go to trial, you don’t even need to see a courtroom. I laugh to myself sometimes because when people call me they frequently will ask, “What would a judge say about (blank)”. And my answer is always the same.

No judge is ever going to make a decision about anything if you guys can work out your agreements outside of court. The only people who ever see a judge are the ones that could not figure it out by themselves and needed to have a judge to decide. There is a big misconception that to get divorced that you need to go in front of a judge for them to make a decision.

This is so far from the truth. My clients who use our service and ultimately come to an agreement will never set foot in court. My of fice deals directly with the spouses to come to an agreement and document that agreement. This turns the divorce process into more of simply drafting agreements and submitting them to the court for approval. The Court does not look at your agreements to see if anything is fair or even equal. All they care is to make sure

that the children are being taken care of and that procedure was followed property and the divorce paperwork done correctly. That’s it.

Here is how you get rid of fear about divorce and the divorce process. Get educated. You are taking a great first step here by reading this book. You can also go to my website at www.divorce661.com and read the over 2,000 articles, videos and podcasts I have produced on the topic of divorce in California. You can also just pick up the phone and call 661-281-0266 for a free phone consultation where I can learn about your situation, discuss if our services are a good fit for you and answer any questions you have about divorce and the divorce process.