Uncontested Divorce Service Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

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Uncontested Divorce Service Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

We are serving the Antelope Valley area to Lancaster Palmdale. You know where you’re at.

I want to talk to you a bit about our uncontested divorce service. We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce.

We’re a divorce paralegal service in the Antelope Valley and we want to talk to you a little bit about what an uncontested divorce means.

Uncontested divorces essentially are cases that are no contest, you may have heard.

A contest is referring to going to trial, going to court, and speaking to a judge.

So, uncontested means you’re trying to work things out. It doesn’t mean that everything is worked out. It just means you plan on working things out and hoping that you don’t have to go to court.

An uncontested divorce could mean that you and your spouse are still in this agreement over many issues. And it still is considered as uncontested divorce.

I want to clarify that because some people think when they are going through divorce, they kind of come to an agreement that they automatically need an attorney.

I’m not saying it’s not good to get legal advice, I’m just saying it may not be necessary.

Statistics tell us that in most cases, attorneys are not necessary to get through your divorce case.

Our service can help you with your uncontested case even if you have disagreements with your spouse.

Many times, these things work themselves out during the divorce process.

And in the process, once you filed and served your paperwork, the next step is to do all your financial disclosures. At that point, you have to come up with an idea how you’re going to split your property.

If you have trouble deciding at that point, before you seek an attorney, there’s always other services such as mediation that may be helpful and help you come to a conclusion or resolution for the issues that you are unable to come to decisions on, on your own.

Many times, this has to do with money, division of assets and debts. Maybe moving out of the family home, issues related to custody or visitation and all those can be down to mediation.

What we recommend id you start with us, get the ball rolling, get your case filed and served, and if you get stuck and you need assistance, you can simply let us know.

Say “Hey Tim, we can’t figure this part out, what do we do?” and that’s when you go to mediation.

It’s going to be a much more cost effective way of getting through your case.

So, that’s why we wanted to talk to you about uncontested divorce cases.

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation service specializing in divorce. We handle all of Los Angeles County and we are the only firm that specializes only in divorce.

Make sure to give us a call, we’d be happy to talk about your specific case. My number is 661-281-0266 and you can get more information off our website at divorce661.com.

Santa Clarita Divorce Paralegal Service

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Santa Clarita Divorce Paralegal Service

We are your local Santa Clarita Divorce Paralegal firm. We offer affordable prices and we can help you with your divorce process from start to finish anywhere in California for that matter but we are locally headquartered here in Santa Clarita.

We are a full service firm so we take care of everything from preparing your forms, filing your forms, we take them down to court for you, get them stamped, we’ll serve them, we’ll complete your financial disclosures, we’ll do your judgment, we’ll help you with establishing child support and spousal support numbers if needed.

Essentially we will do everything and can do everything a law firm does, except for two things. We can’t give you legal advice and we can’t represent you in court.

Outside of that though, we can do just about everything else.

We specialize only in divorce and we are a full service, so this means that we’re going to fill out everything for you.

And the reason I am focusing on that is that there are a lot of companies out there that you’ll see, maybe online companies, they’ve heard about that we’ll offer you a document preparation service but it’s completely automated.

We don’t operate that way. Problem is we’ve had a lot of folks that come to us after using those services and have had no luck and was a complete waste of time, money and they we’re completely frustrated.

So kindly get the word out that we are here locally and we can help you from start to finish and being a full service, we’ll take the whole shot from beginning to end.

My name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. Feel free to give me a call and I’d be happy to sketch your particular circumstances and see how we can help you.

The number is 661-281-0266 and you can always get more information off our website at divorce661.com.

Antelope Valley Divorce Service | Divorce Paralegal

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Antelope Valley Divorce Service | Divorce Paralegal

Today we’re talking about how we can help you with your Antelope Valley Divorce.

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We specialize only in divorce. We serve all the courts in Los Angeles County.

Because we are licensed and bonded, we can work direct with you for a flat fee. We don’t attorneys in our office. We’re not required to. We’re a paralegal in a sense, but we have to call ourselves legal document assistants.

We can help you get through your entire case from start to finish. We’re a full service firm, so, what this means is we‘ll fill out all the paperwork, we’re going to file the paperwork for you, we’re going to serve the paperwork, take it to court. Help you with child support numbers, spousal support numbers. Explain to you how distribution of assets and debts work. Basically run you through the entire process.

Because we are full service, we also do motions and orders and request for orders with the court. If you’re an antelope valley, your case will be held at the Lancaster court house.

The filing fees in LA County are $435 unless you qualify for a fee waiver.

Now, here’s the most important part I want to talk to you about.

When you use our service, because we’ve worked with the courts in the past. There is a way we can save you the second half filing fees on your divorce case.

When you file for a divorce, you’ll have to file for a petition and pay a $435 fee. If you’re doing this yourself or if you are using maybe an online forms company or someone other than our service essentially your spouse is going to be directed to file a response. That response is going to cost you another $435. Now, you are at $870 in court fees and you’ve just began the process.

What we will recommend is you give us a call. We can save you on that second half court fee which will almost cover our cost for helping you in taking over this process for you and completing this for you.

My name is Tim Blankenship.

Give me a call. 661-281-0266.

If you’re on this website now or watching this video, divorce661.com and you can watch videos, podcasts and read over a thousand of articles that I have personally written.

Talk to you soon!

Santa Clarita Mediation Services | SCV Divorce Service

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Santa Clarita Mediation Services | SCV Divorce Service

Today we are talking about mediation. I’m going to give you a brief overview of what mediation is and when it would be useful when going through your divorce.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We specialize in divorce only.

What we do is, we prepare legal documents. We’ll get you through your entire divorce from start to finish as a paralegal would or as a law firm would. The only difference is we don’t give legal advice or represent you in court.

Sometimes when people come to us, they’re hoping that they’re going through the whole process on their own, come to all their agreements and things like that. But, what happens when you can’t agree?

That’s where mediation would be appropriate. Let’s say you have a lot of the things figured out but maybe you have a disagreement as to custody of the children or you have a disagreement regarding spousal support or child support or distribution of your property.

Where you have problems coming to an agreement, you can use a professional mediator to help you come to those decisions. And what they’ll do essentially is explain the law to you, they’re neutral party, they’ll sit down with both of you and your spouse, explain the laws so you can make and form decisions about how you want to make decisions regarding your divorce.

When it comes to divorce, there’s only two ways it’s going to end. Either you and your spouse are going to make an agreement or you are going to go to court and have a judge make the order. Hiring attorneys and using mediators and everything else in between. At the end of the day it comes down to you and your spouse would make an agreement that may be amicable, it may be highly contested or through a court order.

So, we highly recommend mediation if you are having difficulty coming to agreements. We have clients that come in here, we get started, they think everything is going to be fine and we get three quarters through the process and they realize they’re stuck on a particular issue.

I’ll often refer them out to a mediator, they’ll get their mediation and then they’ll come back to us and we’ll wrap things up.

When you are going to mediate, if you’re considering mediation from the get go and you know you’re going to need a mediator.

What I suggest you do is give us a call because you cannot start mediation with a mediation firm until you have gotten about three quarters away through the process.

That means you have to file, you have to have the paperwork served and both of you need to complete your financial disclosures.

And we take care of all of that for you as part of our fix fee pricing when we’re preparing your divorce.

So, what we recommend is before you call a mediation company, give us a call. Let’s get started.

Let’s get the ball rolling, let’s get your spouse served so we can start the clock and that six month waiting period. Let’s work at all your financial disclosures. Once all the financial disclosures are completed, then you can pick that up, walk in to the mediation firm and start your mediation.

You may find that starting with us, you may think you need mediation and then after we’re done all the disclosures and financial paperwork, you may have just work things out on your own and save some money on mediation to begin with.

Point of this video is if you are considering mediation, just give us a call.

We’ll be happy to talk with you, we’d be happy to give you a referral to a local Santa Clarita mediation firm who we do a lot of business with and we can talk to you how we can get the ball rolling with you and make this an easy as possible transition in your life.

divorce661.com, you can go to that website for more information or please give me a call.

I’ll be happy to speak with you – 661-281-0266.

California Divorce Long Term Marriage & Terminating Spousal Support

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California Divorce Long Term Marriage & Terminating Spousal Support

Today we’re talking about reasons your judgment can get rejected when you submit your final order to the court.

And this is regards to spousal support. Well, let me give you, I guess the rule and I’m not a lawyer, not a law firm so we can’t tell you what the laws are. I’m just going to read off what the courts are telling us. I’m just kind of referring to their documents.

The courts look at long term marriage to be anything over ten years. If you have a long term marriage and you submit your final judgment, they only way you can have spousal support waived, and now we are talking about jurisdiction to terminate spousal support is by having an agreement with your spouse.

You’d have to submit a written stipulation to that. If you’re going to do a default judgment and default is where you file for divorce, you served your spouse, there is no response and they’re not involved in the case. If you file a default and you have a long term marriage, you cannot retain or you cannot terminate jurisdiction over spousal support. The courts will retain jurisdiction indefinitely.

We had a client come in and hired us to finish their case, they had tried to submit their documents to court and this is what the court told them. “Except on written agreement of the parties to the contrary (if they have a written agreement, they can do it) or court order terminating the spousal support, the court retains jurisdiction indefinitely in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or for legal separation of the parties where the marriage is of long duration, ten years or more from the date of marriage to the date of separation. See family code 4336.

What that tells us is, if you file a default there’s not going to be a written agreement, so, you can’t terminate jurisdiction. In fact, we’ve seen several cases returned where they did not approved the judgment where the parties were asking to terminate jurisdiction on long term marriages.

Now, in under ten years or short term marriage if you will. They’re allowing you to terminate jurisdiction.

So, if you want to terminate jurisdiction, you don’t want to ever have to pay for spousal support and you and your spouse agreed. The only way you’re going to be able to do that is by a written agreement. A default case would not be appropriate for you in that matter.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

We specialize in California divorce. You can reach me direct at 661-281-0266.

California Divorce Judgment Rejected New Rules On Defaults

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California Divorce Judgment Rejected New Rules On Defaults

Today, we are talking about an issue that’s come up. A change as it pertains to divorce judgments so this is when you’re submitting your California Divorce Judgments where you talk about one of the issues that are coming up. It’s a new policy with the courts.

I had a client come in who attempted to do their divorce case on their own in California and they had several issues, they had a lot of issues come up and their judgment was rejected and there’s something new that we noticed on this reject sheet.

In that, there were some new policies if you will, regarding the final judgment.

So this is going to be regarding a default judgment.  A default is when you filed, there was no response. You filed a request to enter default, the default was entered and then you submitted your judgment without the other party’s involvement or signature.

What they’re asking that you do now is, you probably recall when you file your initial financial disclosures, you had to file incoming expense and schedule of assets and debts and then you had to file a form FL-141 and indicate you had served your preliminary declaration of disclosure.

That used to be all the courts required, as far as the disclosure is concerned on defaults. Now, what they’re asking for is that you either submit your final declaration of disclosure, which means you have to do everything, your final disclosures all over again or to submit a waiver. And the waiver would be done on the 141 as well.

What you’ll do with that 141 is you’ll just mark the petitioner’s final declaration of disclosure and then you can go down to the bottom, number 4. And there’s a box where you can waive yours and the respondents completion of the final declaration disclosure.

And the reason that you’re going to mark is that because there is no stipulation or in agreement and that the judgment is being entered by default.

So, keep that in mind on the default judgments, it’s apparently a change, a recent change and then we’re talking this is now September 12, 2013.

One more thing that you’ll go on, make sure that you either do your final disclosures or waive the final disclosures.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

We specialize in California divorce. We talk a lot about judgment, so, keep checking back and for more information and continue watching our videos or give us a call if you’d like some help with your divorce – 661-281-0266.

Online California Divorce Service

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Online California Divorce Service

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce in California, paralegal if you will. Most people know us by that name.

We handle divorce cases all throughout California. We do much of it online and help cases all throughout California.

We wanted to make this video because there’s a lot of clients out there that have found us online, on YouTube.

Looking for an online divorce service or looking for not just a divorce service, maybe a cheap divorce service, what have you, with their uncontested case.

So, what we want to do is discuss the differences between our service and other online services.

First of all, what you’ll notice is, if you’re searching around that there truly isn’t a service out there that allows you to file completely online. Some people allow you to do the initial documents and then they’ll stop there.

But the online services that you’ll find are basically automated document assembly services, this means you answer a long online questionnaire and then your answers are populated into the forms.

The problem with this is there is not a human being looking at the forms to make sure you did it correctly.

We have numerous clients that come from one of these myriad online services that they had their forms done incorrectly and they’re rejected by the court.

Not to mention, their forms are not updated, because usually these online companies are trying to service all the states in the US and they can’t update their forms correctly.

In California, the forms are updated twice a year and we’re seeing that these online services haven’t updated them for many years and these forms are now being rejected.

Now, let’s talk about costs. When you file through an online service, they may have a low teaser rate upfront but they’re goal is to try and get you to use their full service and so forth.

They don’t, however file any of the forms, serve the forms or anything like that. That’s really when you’re going to need done.

When we fill out your documents, we literally will do it by hand. We’ll talk to you on the phone. We can get some of the questions from you via email, whatever you prefer, depending on your schedule and were going to walk you through step by step and actually type up your documents for you. No automated document assembly with our company.

We’re going to save you money, when you use our service we can show you how to avoid paying the other half of the filing fees.

When you use an online service, generally they will recommend or require you to file a response along with the petition. Now, you’re paying $435 twice.

Not with us. There’s a way with the courts that you can get away with paying a single fee, it’s called a hybrid. I won’t go into it here, but make sure to call me.

Because if we do this, our fees will be absorbed by the fees you save in filing fees and you have us do all the work.

My name is Tim Blankenship. We specialize in divorce in California. Please give me a call 661-281-0266.

For more information visit our website at divorce661.com.

Cheap Online California Divorce

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Cheap Online California Divorce

Today I want to talk to you about our cheap online divorce service.

If you’re looking for an online divorce service, the first thing you’re going to find is that most of them are automated services. Something that you pay for, you don’t talk to somebody. You simply answer questions online and then you print out your documents.

The problem with this is that you have to do all the work, so this truly is not an online divorce service. You’re going to have to print the forms, and then all the work is up to you.

The probably the worst part about online divorce services is that you’re going to have to pay twice as much in court fees. And this is because they’re going to require you to file your petition and pay a fee and the other party file a response.

We have a truly online divorce service, in that we will take care of everything for you. We don’t use questionnaires, you’re not going to have to come to our office, were going to prepare your documents as if you’re sitting in our office, take care of everything for you from start to finish.

We handle only California divorce cases, we’re sentry located in Los Angeles, northern Los Angeles County area and we can handle your divorce case anywhere in California.

Essentially what we do is instead of you filling out online questionnaires, we simply make an over the phone appointment with you. It takes about thirty minutes to prepare each set of documents with you.

Once you’ve signed up for services with us, we’ll set an appointment with you at your convenience and we will over the phone complete all you divorce papers for the initial forms. Our service includes, filing all the documents, serving all the documents, going down to court, taking care of everything for you.

So, when you use our service, it’s more of a all-inclusive service. Where we’re going to take care of everything for you. Filing the documents, serving the documents and so forth.

So, what we recommend is give us a call regardless of where you are in California. We have filed with probably most of the fifty somewhat counties in California to date, we have clients all across California and we are a full service online divorce dissolution.

There isn’t anyone else out there that is doing this process, whether you be in northern California, southern California, east or west we’ll take care of it for you.

The court process is essentially the same in all the California courts aside form a few local forms which we have access to and we’ll take care of it for you.

When you use our service, it is cheaper than using an online service, and I’m just going to explain that cheaper, please call me to talk about this.

When you use an online service you’re going to have to pay two fees. To file a petition and when you file the response and if you’re having an uncontested case which I assume you are if you’re trying to do this online. Then, there’s no need to file the response.

We have what is called a hybrid where you guys can enter into a stipulated agreement and save that secondary filing fee.

So, our costs are minimal when you take in to account the fact that we’re going to have those fees waived on the response.

And we’re going to take care of everything for you, saving you time and frustration.

So, please give me a call.

My name is Tim Blankenship.

We are a company that specializes in divorce only in California.

When you call, you will be speaking to me. I am the owner and I will be taking care of you from start to finish in your divorce.

Please give me a call, 661-281-0266 or please visit our website for more information, divorce661.com.

Thanks for reading!

I Need Help With My Divorce | Santa Clarita Divorce Service

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I Need Help With My Divorce | Santa Clarita Divorce Service

If you’re reading this, did you type into the search engine on either YouTube or Google ‘I need help with my divorce papers’ or some variation of that?

Well, you’re not alone. Many people run into trouble and need help with the divorce process at some point during the process.

It is a difficult and confusing process, and people just like you, ordinary people, smart people, have difficulty completing the paperwork.

Some people get stuck at certain points during the process; some people will look at the initial paperwork and say ‘you know what, I don’t want to do this’, ‘I don’t want to deal with this’, and ‘I can’t figure this out’; and they call us for help before they ever file a single thing, or fill out a single form.

To the other extreme, we have people that attempt to do the entire process on their own, from start to finish, including submitting the final judgment, and then run into trouble there; or we have calls come in from any point in between.

Maybe they did their initial paperwork and now they fell stuck; and they want to hire us to complete the remainder of the process.

So anywhere, at any point when you need assistance, we can pick up where you left off. Whether, you haven’t filed a thing. Whether you’ve had your judgment submitted, and rejected. At any point we can pick up and take off. Pick up where you left off. Okay. Glad I got that out.

So, give us a call if you need assistance at any point with the divorce paperwork. We can help you anywhere in California. We are essentially located in Los Angeles, California to be exact.

We are in Santa Clarita which is in northern LA County, but if you need help with the divorce process at any point, just give us a call. We’d be happy to finish things up for you.

We have people call from all over California that simply either scan us or mail us their documents and their rejection letter; or just let us know where they’re at; and we can finish it up for you, get your case submitted, and let you know what’s left to be done, and finish up, wrap up the divorce for you.

Tim Blankenship, our website is divorce661.com. Please give me a call direct at 661-281-0266.

Thanks!

Your Divorce Process Does Not Start Until Spouse Served | Santa Clarita Divorce

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Your Divorce Process Does Not Start Until Spouse Served | Santa Clarita Divorce

Today I wanted to talk to you about an issue, and a question that a lot of people have, and that it keeps coming up.

So I want to do another video and maybe hit it from a different angle so maybe it makes more sense.

The question is, when does the divorce process actually start?

Many people feel that the divorce process starts when they file their paperwork. You fill out the forms; you take it down to court. The clerk stamps it, you have these conformed stamped copies, and you think “Great, I’ve started my divorce, and in six months I’ll be done.”

That is a common misconception that I’m going to attempt to clear up again, and advise you as to when the actual process starts.

So, you have your filed papers. The divorce process officially starts, that six-month waiting period starts when you served your spouse. This can be, doing it by mail, and notice of acknowledgment of receipt, or when you have someone personally serve your spouse.

That is the official kick-off of the divorce process.

Now, there are several things that hinge of off that service date, that six-month window, or that start date when your spouse is served.

For instance, if you’re going to do a default filing, meaning, the other party is not going to respond for thirty days. Look at your summons if you’re wondering what I’m talking about says the other party at thirty days. Those thirty days is after your spouse is served.

It’s not after the date you filed; after your spouse is served. So you cannot file the default and tell your spouse is served. The six-month window starts as of the date your spouse is served. So if you file your divorce papers, and hang on to it for two months, nothing, the clock has not started ticking.

So, when your divorce can be finalized – is going to be six months from the day your spouse is served.

Heed that in mind that nothing, everything hinges off that date of service, that notice of filing that you serve on your spouse. That’s when everything kicks off. You can’t file a default, your six-month window doesn’t start ticking.

I want you to be aware of that. Keep in mind though, that if you don’t file or, I’m sorry, if you don’t serve your papers, and this is kind of something that started last year, the middle of the year of 2013.

Once you file, you’re going to want to serve your spouse within sixty days or you can anticipate the court setting a hearing.

You’re going to receive a notice in the mail that’s saying ‘hey, you filed for divorce, you haven’t served your spouse, you have to do so by this date or we’re going to dismiss the case.’ So I just wanted to throw that in as an added bonus to this video.

And this is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. You can reach us direct at 661-281-0266, or more on our website at divorce661.com. Thanks!