Request For Order Time Frames For Serving : Valencia Divorce

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Filing and serving Request For Orders or RFO’s can be confusing.  I have discussed in the past, but since I have just finished up another Request For Order for a client, I thought it was a good time to go over the timeframes for serving them again.

We provide 2 options for preparing your Request For Order:

1. Full Service – We will draft, file and serve your Request For Order

2. Do-it-yourself – We have a online video tutorial with all form and example declarations

The most important thing you have to remember about serving timeframes of Request For Orders is that everything is hinged off of the court date you were given by the court.

I explain the timeframes in this video

 

There are 2 sets of timeframes you can use, whether you are serving it by mail or serving it by personal service. Please note that we are not discussing when you have to serve by personal service or by mail in this article, but to be safe, serve by personal service when in doubt.

Or click here to learn how to serve your Request For Order

Here is the way you figure out the date you have to serve your Request For Order.

Let’s say the court date is on June 30th. Everything will be working backwards of that date, so it will look like this.

17 Court days to serve the Request For Order by personal service
Plus 5 Calendar days if you are serving by mail. Again, there are restrictions on serving by mail so make sure you can serve by mail in your case.

So you will take June 30th and count backwards 17 court days. This means you need to skip over the weekends and any court holidays and make sure you don’t count them. The day you land on, will be the last day to personally serve your Request For Order. If we are using a 2016 calendar, the last day to serve the Request For Order would be June 7th. Again, make sure to check for holidays and to skip the weekends.

Keep in mind that you don’t have to wait until the last minute to serve your Request For Order, you can serve the Request For Order as soon as you have it filed and have a court date. Some people wait until the last minute to serve the Request For Order to be mean and give a shorter period of time for the other party to Respond, but that is up to you.

Make sure that once you serve the Request For Order that you file the proof of service with the court.

At Divorce661, we provide a full service Request For Order solution. We will handle the preparation of the motion, write the declaration, file and get your court date and mediation date as well as have it served on the other party and file the proof of service.

And don’t forget, we  have a do-it-yourself product where we have a video tutorial of how to properly prepare a Request For Order to obtain the best results possible.

Also, if you are looking for help with your divorce, we can help you with your full service approach or you can use our online do-it-yourself divorce service as well.

My Valencia Divorce Judgment Rejected 3 Times

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I hear it every day.  I tried to do my own Valencia divorce and my Valencia divorce judgment was rejected. In this case, this gal’s Valencia divorce judgment was rejected 3 times.

Why Your Valencia Divorce Judgment Is Being Rejected

This is not the most times someone has told me their . Nope, the most times someone said their Valencia divorce judgment was rejected was 7 times.  Can you imagine having your Valencia divorce judgment rejected 7 times?  Even if you have had your Valencia divorce judgment rejected once, it is enough to frustrate you completely.  You think you have completed your Valencia divorce properly and then one day, you receive the rejected Valencia divorce judgment in the mail.

Valencia Divorce Judgments Get Rejected All The Time

Valencia divorce judgments get rejected all the time.  In fact, so much that we have a service just for cleaning up the judgement and resubmitting.  But we have talked about that in many articles and if you find yourself in a situation where your Valencia divorce judgment has been rejected.

But the purpose of this article was not so much to talk about our service is it is to discuss a situation I ran into today.

So today, I received a message on Facebook from someone I knew several years ago.  Someone that worked in an office near me.  So not friends, per se, but an acquaintance would be the best way to explain it.

Anyways, I ran into her in the Ralph’s grocery store in Valencia about 6 months ago. She said she knew I was doing divorce’s and said she was having trouble with her divorce as far as the paperwork was concerned.  So she asked me for some advice and I gave her a few pointers to trouble shoot her case based upon what she told me the problems were.

Back to today.  She reached out to me via Facebook and asks me how much it would be to fix her Valencia divorce paperwork.  I give her a price via messenger and explain that we will take care of everything.  Her response was, ” It is just the judgment, everything else is fine”.

Honestly, this irritated me.

Here is why.  I know that not “everything else is fine” when you are turning in your divorce judgment.  This is because when you turn in your divorce judgment, this is the first time that the court reviews any of  your paperwork.

Everyone things all their divorce forms are correct, until they turn the judgment into the court.

Why Your Valencia Divorce Will Be Rejected Multiple Times

Here is a secret that I have told a million times.  When you turn in your judgment to the court, the clerks will find one or two maybe three reasons to reject your divorce judgment paperwork and send it back.  You fix those few mistakes and then they reject it again.

This is why we have created Valencia divorce judgment checklists.

Why do you think the judgment gets rejected so many times?  If everything is fine then why does it keep getting rejected for new reasons?

Exactly.

What also irritated me is that I also have her a second option.  I said, “pay for the California Divorce Tutor Uncontested Divorce package which is just $97 and I will walk you through wrapping up your Valencia divorce case.

I didn’t get a thank you or even a reply.

If you are not willing to spend even $97 to finalize your Valencia divorce, then I suppose your only option is to keep having your Valencia divorce judgment rejected.

Look folks, the Valencia divorce process is complicated.  You need professional help.  Otherwise you will struggle and your divorce will take years.

You are undoing a marriage of how ever many years.  Get it done right and have a professional company handle your divorce case.

Valencia Divorce Form FL-150: How To Complete FL-150: California Divorce Tutor

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Valencia Divorce Form FL-150 – Income and Expense Declaration

If you are going through a Valencia Divorce one of the forms you will need to complete is the divorce form FL-150 also known as the Income & Expense Declaration. The FL-150 is needed for multiple reason during the divorce process. Even if you are going through an amicable divorce, you will have to complete a FL-150, income and expense declaration.

Other uses for the FL-150, income and expense declaration, is when you are filing a motion, called a Request For Order. The FL-150, income and expense declaration is used for motions when you are dealing with anything having to do with money.

Read more below video…

 

For instance, if you file a motion for child support or child support, you will need to complete the Valencia divorce form FL-150, Income and Expense Declaration.

In fact, I am working with a client right now where the spouse filed a motion for child support and spousal support and they completed their FL-150, income and expense declaration and we will be filing her Responsive Declaration which will also include a FL-150, income and expense declaration.

If you are going through a Valencia, California divorce or considering going through a Valencia, California divorce you have many options. You can either decide to do it yourself or hire us for our full service divorce options. Both are popular and we did this so that regardless of income, people have access to affordable Valencia divorce services in Valencia.

Feel free to call us for a free phone consultation at 661-281-0266. To check out the tutorial for Valencia Divorce form FL-150, income and expense declaration, you can also go to our other do-it-yourself, website at California Divorce Tutor where you can view live videos of how to prepare each of the California divorce forms.

The Value We Provide With Our Divorce Service Is Invaluable

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When I started this business it was to provide affordable divorce services that focused on providing great customer service and value.  We provide so much value for the dollar spent that I personally feel you are a fool to go anyplace else but to our company for assistance with your divorce.  No, I am not calling you stupid!

I simply feel that with our years of experience in the business and completing 30+ divorce cases every month, to having worked for the Los Angeles Superior Court’s divorce court’s that you will not find a more experienced company to assist you.

However, there are those people who don’t understand the value that given until it is too late.  What I am referring to is other people out there saying they provide the same service as us when they really don’t.  They are unlicensed and offering services they are not allowed to perform.  Not to mention they don’t know what they are doing and are a bad example of our industry.

I didn’t mean to start down this negative rant, but this is just how serious I take my business.  There are other companies out there. Sure.  They might even be a little less money, or at least it appears at first.  Until you start working with them and realize that you really get what you pay for.

We provide so much value for the money spent it is ridiculous.  You get attorney quality assistance with your divorce for a fraction of the cost of hiring an attorney.  We have handled just about every type of divorce situation there is and because I have worked for the courts, the self help centers and for attorney’s I know the process and procedure frontward and backwards.

When you hire our company to complete your divorce, you are not just getting divorce document preparation. You are getting our years of experience in the courts, helping now thousands of folks with their divorce.  Sure, some divorce cases are easier than others, but some are as difficult as they come. And we can handle all of them.

Point of the story is this.  There is a lot on the line when getting your divorce completed.  Yes, you may be in agreement which is great. But there are so many things that can still go wrong especially related to how you handle the division of your assets and debts and what you are doing with spousal support.

You are not familiar with the divorce process and the in’s and out’s of it.

When it comes to divorce, ignorance is not bliss.  It’s dangerous.

 

 

Bifurcate Divorce: What Is A Bifurcation? California Divorce Tutor

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What is a bifurcation of your divorce?

A bifurcation is a fancy word that means “to separate”. For purposes of bifurcating your divorce, this is usually referring to separating the marriage portion of your divorce from everything else such as the asset and debt division or children, custody, support, etc.

In short, a bifurcation would allow the parties to get divorced, while leaving all the other issues left over to decide. It is pretty common for divorcees to want to bifurcate the status of their marriage (meaning to go from married to single) when the divorce case is taking to long or there are other reason why one of the parties wants to end the status of their marriage sooner than the entire divorce case being finished.

(Read more below video)

Completing a bifurcation during your divorce can be achieved by agreement of the parties, which is the easiest way to do it. If your spouse does not agree to stipulate to a bifurcation, you can always file a motion with the court, called a “Request for Order”, and have a judge make a ruling on the matter. But by agreement is always easier.

Valencia Divorce : Choose Your Process Server Wisely

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When going through a divorce in Valencia, California, one of the things you will have to eventually do is serve your spouse the divorce papers.  There are several ways to do this, but in this article, we are talking about personally serving the divorce papers.

Your options for serving divorce papers are pretty wide, meaning it can be anyone over the age of 18, who is not a party to the case.  So that usually just means, as the one going through the divorce, you are the only one who cannot serve the divorce papers.

But when choosing a process server or a person to serve your divorce papers, you should choose wisely.   This is because, you may need to contact that person again in the future should something be wrong with the proof of service of your divorce papers.

In this one specific incident a (not a client of ours) called us to assist them with finishing their Valencia divorce.  When we reviewed the proof of service, we determined that it was not completed properly.

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This means that the proof of service had to be completed again by the person who served the divorce papers.  There were two problems with this.  First, the person was served over 2 years ago.  Second, the guy used his gardener to serve the divorce papers. Basically, he did not know where he was and had no contact with him.

Had he choose someone better suited to serve divorce papers or used a professional company to serve the divorce papers, it would just have been a matter of amending the proof of service and re-filing it.  But because the person was nowhere to be found, the divorce papers will need to be served again.  This starts the 6 month clock all over again.

We can assist you with serving divorce papers.  We will coordinate and have the other person served by process server if that is the desired method.

For questions on how to properly serve divorce papers, feel free to either give us a call or to use our online divorce self help center at California Divorce Tutor.

Valencia Divorce Judgment Should Include FAM-031

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Why You Should Submit Form FAM-031 Request For Default Setting

There are reasons you want to file a FAM-031 when submitting your final California divorce judgment to the court. The main reason is that if you submit the divorce judgment to the court and they have questions, all they can do is reject your judgment and send it back to you asking you to set the matter for a hearing called a default setting.

If you submit it, even if the court does not need it, they won’t set the default hearing, they will just approve the judgment. But submitting the FAM-031 just in case could save you several months in processing time.

 

FAM-031 Valencia Divorce : Do I Have To Go To Court?

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Should You Submit A FAM-031 With Your California Divorce Judgment?

We are always recommending that you file a FAM-031 with your California Divorce Judgment. We have done several videos on this.  But we did get a question the other day from a client that I wanted to answer. His questions was, ” If we submit the FAM-031 will I have to go to court?”  His questions was whether the Judge would set a hearing whether they needed one or not just by submitting the form.

The short answer is no.  But watch the video below where I explain how and why you would submit the FAM-031 as part of your California divorce judgment.

We provide a full service divorce throughout California as well providing an online California Divorce service at California Divorce Tutor.

 

Valencia Divorce : Post Judgment Modifications : Divorce Agreements

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When going through a Valencia Divorce ( or a divorce anywhere in California) one of the tools that may be useful is a Stipulation and Order. A Stipulation and Order is documents that allows the parties to a divorce to draft agreements they have related to the issues of their case.

For instance, if you have agreed to spousal support or child support and just about any agreement you want to document, instead of going to court and asking for the judge to rule on something, it is easier if a Stipulation and Order is drafted.

All that is done is the agreements are placed in the Stipulation and Order, both parties sign and then it is sent down to court for the judge to sign.

We offer this service both as a full service option or as a self-help service at California Divorce Tutor

Watch this video for more information.

Valencia Divorce : Valencia Divorce Self Help Services Online

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For years we have had our full service Valencia divorce services (serving all of California). We were constantly asked for an online divorce solution, one that was more affordable and an online divorce service that was completely do-it-yourself.

Welcome to California Divorce Tutor. California Divorce Tutor is much more than just an online California self help service, we also have tutorials on how to complete contested divorce cases, discovery during divorce, how to prepare motions during your divorce and much more.

For more information watch the video below or go to California Divorce Tutor to learn more.