How To Complete California Divorce Summons | Santa Clarita Divorce

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How To Complete California Divorce Summons | Santa Clarita Divorce

Hi! This is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist, and we’re going to continue on with how to represent yourself and how to prepare the specific forms.

And a little bit about us quickly, we are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation service, we specialize in the divorce process in California, we have years of experience working for the courts, in the self-help centers, and for local area family law firms, here in Santa Clarita

We have multiple websites; we serve all of Los Angeles County. If you are looking for specific court information in your location, feel free to use one of those websites you see on your screen, you will get court specific information; there’s video resources and a host of other information that you will find very helpful when representing yourself and trying to learn about the divorce process.

The text in this post is the transcript of the below video describing how to complete the California divorce summons and explaining its use.  

So today we are going to talk about the summons. We are now on to the summons; let’s take a look at what the court says we need to complete here next. We’ve been talking about step one here and we talked about the petition; now we are going to talk about the summons, FL-110 and how to prepare that form.

So let’s take a look, I have one here, I have summons …petition… here are the summons. So let’s talk about the summons, and we’re going to fill it out.

If you have been served divorce papers, make sure to check out our article on how to file a California Divorce Response.

There is not a whole lot to fill out on here but you want to draw your attention onto some of the information that’s on here. So we’re going to, as a petitioner, we’re going to complete the summons here; notice to respondent, so this is going be your spouse’s name.

Okay, respondent’s name, I think we have been going by John Smith throughout this video series. You won’t have a case number yet because this is one of the initial filing forms.

So let’s talk about this, there’s some directions the court is giving to both you and the person who’s going to receive this. They’re indicating that you have 30 days after the summons and petition are served on you to file a response, so this is to your spouse, at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. So it’s important that you let your spouse read this ‘cause what they’re talking about is some of the legal actions you can take if your spouse doesn’t file a response; and how to proceed through the divorce process, even if they don’t respond.

Let’s go down the page here, okay name and address of the court, so you’re simply going to type in, Los Angeles Superior Court, 900 Third Street, San Fernando CA 91340.

The name and address and phone number of the attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, so this will be you; and one two three, 222 Main Street, City, State and Zip, and phone number, okay, we’re going to put that on in here.

Don’t fill out this date, that’s for the clerk, don’t put the date in here, leave it blank. Here you have: check this box as an individual. Go down to page 2, and I want to draw your attention to this big box here on page 2 so, it says warning, important information; you need to read this, this applies to both the petitioner and the respondent in the divorce process.

There are these standard family law restraining orders that go into effect immediately, as far as removing the minor children from parties, cashing, taking out money, transferring, doing any of these things, these types of things with your finances; concealing, disposing of property, you know, you want to keep everything in stash while you are restrained from making any changes, including taking folks off of life insurance and things of that nature.

So, at this point let me draw your attention to this, again there isn’t much to this particular form; it is one of the initial documents, you have the summons and the petition that are required.

There’s also another form, called a Family Law Case coversheet, that’s one of the local area forms, that’s why it’s not discussed on the court website. So if you need more information on that, please give me a call; we’re also going to prepare a video on that as well.

So to just to recap on this, this covered the summons and you want to take a look on the automatic restraining orders that kick in once you start the process. Again we are licensed and bonded legal document preparation service serving all of Los Angeles County and all the courts in Los Angeles County.

We provide a full service divorce company in Santa Clarita and serving all of California. which means we can complete your divorce regardless of where you are in California.  You do not have to come to our office; we have the divorce process down to a science, it’s very seamless and simple when you use our professional divorce services. If not, I hope you enjoy the videos and hope they are helpful in testing you and completing your divorce forms.

Again if you have any further questions, feel free to call us, visit one of our local websites for your area. Other than that I hope you enjoyed and you continue on watching the videos. We hope to have several hundred videos at the time when our video series is complete covering all aspects of divorce. Again, Tim Blankenship, SCV Legal Doc Assist. Have a good day.

How To Complete California Divorce Petition | Santa Clarita Divorce

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Hello again, this is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. Today we’re going to be doing a how-to video on how to prepare the petition for divorce.

The county of Los Angeles says that there are two forms that you need to file in order to initiate a divorce in California. So we’re going to, in this video, just discuss the petition alone, and there’ll be future videos on the other forms as we move along here.

Now, we are a legal document preparation service. We specialize in the divorce process in all of California. And you can see we have dedicated websites throughout Los Angeles County based on your area code; and if you’re looking for specific information regarding the divorce process, specific court information in your local area, please use one of our websites you see on your screen now or give us a call for information.

In the video below we mention that we are virtual for purposes of assisting folks throughout California, however we do have offices in Santa Clarita, CA.  The text of this post is the transcript of the video.

We are a full service document preparation service that means we can help you regardless of your location in California, we do serve all the courts in California, and if you’re looking for assistance through the divorce process, get your paperwork completed, and not have to step foot into an office and do it completely online, we’re your firm.

So let’s move on. Again, this is probably our 5th or 6th video in how-to and this is for people going through the divorce process without attorneys, who are in pro per, representing themselves, we’re trying to make it easier to find this information so they can get through the process; and if not, use our service if they need an affordable way to have someone professionally prepare the paperwork.

So today we’re going to talk about just completing the petition.

If you’ll note here on the LA County website, as far as the steps you’ll see here that the petition FL-100 is one of the forms that you need to complete, so we’re gonna talk about that specifically today.

So, let’s pull up the petition here, that’s not it, okay here’s the petition, FL-100, this is one of the first forms that you’ll need to complete; and if you’re representing yourself, I’m just gonna go through this and have you follow on, you can pause the video if you’re actually doing this on your own, not a problem.

So you’ll be John Smith, and 123 Main Street, and you put your city, state, and zip here, your phone number, you just punch this in here.

If the court needs to contact you it’s important you have that in here. Your email address, you can put that in if you want; not necessary, it’s optional. Here for attorney you’re gonna say In Pro Per, or some people put Self-represented, your choice.

And, you’re going to be Superior Court of Los Angeles. For court address we can use the, let’s use our San Fernando branch, 900 Third Street, and that is the North Valley branch. Petitioner, you’re gonna put your name here if you are filling this out. This would be your spouse’s name here. And case number, you won’t have one yet, ‘cause you’re just filing the paperwork.

You were filing for dissolution of marriage, that means divorce. If you have lived as a resident of the state for the last six months you’re gonna mark this box, if your spouse has also been here for the last six months you can also mark that box as well.

Put in your date of marriage, here you’re gonna put the date of separation, and then give us a total, years and months. If you have minor children, you’ll mark this box, but if not you mark this box, but if you do, you’re gonna put in the name, date of birth, age, male or female, and you’ll also have to do another form this UCCJEA if you have minor children; we’ll discuss that in another video altogether.

Separate property: here you can identify property which you consider to be separate. We’ll talk about separate property, community property in other videos. We use some boiler point language when we professionally prepare your documents with this company; otherwise you can itemize separate property here, you can say you want it to be confirmed to yourself, so you say confirm to petitioner, and again you can put the property in here if you like.

Page 2 of the divorce Petition

Page two, you’re going to indicate your community property that property assets and debts that you accumulated during marriage. Again, you can use the boiler point language that we use if we are preparing your forms or you can indicate what that community debts are; generally speaking though, for community assets and debts there won’t be enough room here to do so; and you can use language that essentially says you’re gonna supplement your financials down the road.

You’re gonna request dissolution of marriage based on irreconcilable differences, this is generally, this is all I have done, and this is ninety-nine percent of the time it’s gonna be irreconcilable differences. The courts don’t care your reason for divorce, just that it’s irreconcilable.

Alright, so this is going to be regarding some more of you’re asking for the court, legal custody regarding the children, if you want it to be joint you mark this box, if not you can say you want legal custody, to you, physical custody to you, or you can just do joint, it’s completely up to you.

These forms, again we’ll do a videos on these forms, but these are attachments to the petition that you, some of these are for say, child custody, visitation orders, holiday schedules, and things of that nature.

You can ask the court to terminate jurisdiction and ability toward spousal support to the other spouse. You can ask for property rights to be determined. And if you’re the wife and you want your name back, you can say I want to go back to my former name and you can put that here. So this covers the petition, just make sure you date it, you sign it, and put your name here. And this is how you complete the petition.

Again, my name is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist, providing self-help legal services, specializing in divorce in all of California,

please give a call if you’d like your forms professionally prepared, and if not enjoy the videos and hopefully they’re helpful and representing yourself and getting these forms completed.

So please give me a call if you have any questions, you wanna find out some of our affordable pricing, schedules for preparing your forms; other than that I’d be happy to help you or simply enjoy the videos. The next video will be on the summons so keep on watching if you’re moving through the process with us and I hope you have a good day.

What Is The Divorce Rate Among Baby Boomers In California

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Hi this is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com and today I wanted to talk to you about an article I read in the Los Angeles Times today and it was called “The Great Divorce Boom”. And what it was referring to was the increase in divorce cases relating to the baby boomers.

The baby boomers as you know are a large population that have been moving through society and they’re getting older now and two things have happened:

Number 1, they have started to divorce in higher numbers, and number 2, the divorce rate is increasing, just in general.

So what we’re finding in here, at least what this article has indicated in the LA Times is that the divorce rate among baby boomers, this huge population, is now at 25%, so 25% of all baby boomers are now getting divorced. And that’s a huge number when you look at how large the baby boomer population is.

The interesting thing is the divorces for baby boomers in the past had been right around 10%. And not just with baby boomers, but with the older population, or what they’re referring to as “grey divorcees”, assuming that you have grey hair, that’s what they’re referring to.

So that said, we are noticing in our business, we provide a legal document preparation service, we specialize in divorce, and I would say that our client base exceeds that 25% rate for grey divorcees, for maybe baby boomers, and let’s say people over 50, we are seeing a huge population of folks come through our offices who are going through divorce.

So I would say that exceeds, at least here in the Santa Clarita Valley, that 25% rate I would say it’s closer to 40% of our client base currently.

So I just wanted to get this information out there, if you are over 50 and you are going through divorce, you are not alone.  You’re not the only person doing this; in fact you are among a large population, a growing population of folks getting divorced at an older age.

And I just want to let you know that you are not alone in that. Twenty five percent of you by statistic will end up divorced at some point over 50.

It’s a sad number, but it is what it is. It’s not just with the baby boomers, this is an issue, shouldn’t say an issue because getting divorced could be a good thing, could be a bad thing, but divorce is growing with all age brackets; not just with folks over 50.

However it has been noticed that that population is getting divorced in higher numbers.

If you have any questions about divorce and the divorce process in the California, my name is Tim Blankenship, feel free to give me a call, you can reach me direct at 661-281-0266, or as always at our website to get more information divorce661.com. Thanks!

Why Both Spouses At Divorce Consultation Is A Good Idea | Santa Clarita Divorce

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This is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. We specialize in divorce in California and are headquartered in Santa Clarita. What I wanted to discuss is how it might be a good idea, of course this is assuming that things are mostly amicable with your spouse, if you’re going through divorce.

This video explains when it is a good idea to bring your spouse to your divorce consultation.

It was actually the first time that I had agreed to that, not because I had any issue with it, but because no one had asked, and it actually turned out to work out very well, and I wanted to consider that as an option; instead of coming in and meeting me on your own and filing.

You’re going to obviously have tell your spouse at some point, so maybe bring it up and you both come in  at the same time and meet with me and we can get a lot of paperwork done and answer questions for both parties.

This was helpful in a lot of ways, but most importantly, aside from getting a lot of the paperwork done is if you hire me to help both parties prepare the divorce paperwork for you, for both of you, the spouse that did not hire me, did not know who I was prior to receiving the paperwork, always seem to be a little bit cautious in working with me because they were not the one to hire me.

When these couples came out and met with me at the same time, both of them were very comfortable and will have no issue moving forward with me carrying the paperwork for both parties. So it was a very good situation; I do highly recommend it.

In cases where you know that it would be a low conflict style divorce or uncontested divorce; because both of you can come in at the same time and we can answer questions, both for you and your spouse so both of you feel comfortable as far as what the process is going to be.

And so you’ll realize that hey, I’m not an attorney, I’m not here to give you legal advice or represent one party or the other. I’m here to push the paperwork through, explain the process and when you need specific information or you get stuck or you need help coming to decisions on certain things, what am I going to be able to do to help you? Advise you as far as what the court process is, how to get appointments from the mediators. So the idea is that I want both of you to feel comfortable in working with me so for one rate we get the entire divorce process done.

Again, this is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. we are headquartered in Santa Clarita. Please give me a call in 661-281-0266. Or you can get more information off our website at divorce661.com

Attorneys For Dividing Your Pension During Divorce (QDRO Attorney – Santa Clarita Divorce

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Hi this is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. You can reach us at 661-281-0266 and today we are talking a little bit more about QDROs, Qualified Domestic Relation Orders and our QDRO Preparation Service.

You do not need to use an attorney to divide your pension. We can prepare your Joinder and QDRO for about 1/3rd the cost of hiring an attorney to prepare your Qualified Domestic Relations Order.

If you have questions about QDROs and what their use is for, pension division and what not, feel free to check our YouTube channel, we have done a video on that in the past to give you more information about why you may need a QDRO service or to have a QDRO prepared for your pension.

My name is Tim Blankenship, again with divorce661.com. If you have any questions about QDROs, QDRO Serivice, or just in general information about divorce, feel free to give us a call. Again you can reach me at 661-281-0266.

 

How To File For Divorce In California (Step 1 – Summons & Petition)

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This is the first video in a series on how to file for divorce in California.  This post will discuss the first step of which forms you will need to file for divorce.

We are also going to go line-by-line and discuss how to fill out each of the forms.  You will also find the video embeded below if you prefer to watch us demonstrate how the forms are completed.

Also, keep in mind that we do have an online divorce document assembly service where you won’t have to worry about how to fill out the forms, as the software fills out all the divorce forms for you.

Click Here on this link to the software

We are licensed and bonded in the county of Los Angeles and can serve you in any court located in California. We are providing these how-to videos so you can get through the entire divorce process on your own if that is what you so choose to do, however for those that find it confusing or don’t have the time to go through the divorce themselves, please give us a call as we are a full serve divorce document preparation firm.

Now, in this particular video we are going to talk about step 1, which is above, which is filing the forms. In the previous video we talked about the legal steps for divorce and went through the 4 steps as outlined by the court system.

So let’s jump in. Step 1, again is going to be talking about starting the process and what forms you need to complete, we’re gonna talk about getting those forms completed.

Okay so here’s step 1, according to Los Angeles county process: The petitioner, who’s the person who will file the first divorce forms with the court, is going to file 2 forms, the petition FL-100, and the summons form FL-110, and if there’s children, FL-105. Today we’re just gonna talk about the petition and the summons, and then we will talk about the other steps.

So let’s jump right in to the FL-100. Okay this is the FL-100. This is the form that is going to be the petition, the 2 page form. And what I’m gonna go do is go through this quickly, not going to fill out every box, but show you essentially what you need to do to get this completed.

If you’re representing yourself, you’re going to put in your name essentially, so here we can type in, if it’ll allow me, my computer is freezing up now, in any case, up on this top box you’re going to put in your name, your address, your phone number, let’s see if it’s gonna let me do this now, let’s…okay, little computer freeze there.

Alright, so today we’ll be John Smith, 123 Main Street, and address, California, the phone number is gonna go here…okay… your email address is optional, and for attorney name you’re gonna say In Pro Per, it means you’re representing yourself.

If you’re in the county of Los Angeles, this would be Los Angeles, and you’ll put the court information here, let’s just use our San Fernando Branch, it’s 900 Third Street, same, and that’s North Valley, you’ll be the petitioner so John Smith would be the petitioner here, oops, and then you put your spouse’s name here as the respondent. Don’t worry about the case number.

This is for dissolution of marriage. If the address that you indicate on here is for yourself in the last six months you mark petitioner to which both of you have been a resident of the state for the last six months you can mark both boxes its fine.

Date of marriage, date of separation, and then you’re gonna tally the totals, years and months of your marriage. Here you’ll indicate wether there are children or not. If you have children, their name, birthday, age, and sex, very simple. Separate property discusses property that you had before marriage and after separation and there are some other properties but because we’re not attorneys we can’t advise you on what that is.

So here you can either write in the property here that’s your separate property or say see attached or you can leave it blank or there’s some boiler point language that we use that the law firms use as well that basically says we’re gonna settle amends and list the separate property later on.

Page two is going to be regarding community property, accumulated during marriage and debts; you can do the same thing here, you can use the same boiler plate language here or “see attached”. Ninety-nine percent of the time it’s going to be irreconcilable differences, California’s a no fault state, so essentially they don’t care the reason, they just call it irreconcilable differences.

And I know I’m going through it fast, but I don’t want this video to be fifteen minutes long, so feel free to pause this at any of your time if you’re trying to keep up and complete the forms along with me.

Alright, and legal custody of the children, you can mark either that you’re the petitioner, or respondent, or joint, same with physical custody, that where the children will live.

If you wanna have visitation to one party, you can also attach additional forms here if you want orders for child visitation or holiday schedules and things of that nature. If you have a child that was born prior to your marriage, you’re gonna want to mark this box, this is to determine parentage of any child born to the petitioner and respondent prior to marriage, if not leave that unchecked.

If you want the court to terminate jurisdiction to award spousal support to the other party you would mark this box. Here if you want your name back, your former name. And other, anything else you’d like to ask, again we have some boiler point language to that as well. Just put in the date and you type your name here, sign it here, and this form is done.

Now let’s move on to the FL-110. This is the summons. You’re gonna type the other party’s name here, so spouse’s name will go here, okay your name is going to go here, who are we John Smith.

And now let’s talk about a little about what the petition, or the summons rather, discusses. This goes over some legal actions here that the other party have. Now this is gonna be served on the other party. So this is to your spouse. That they have thirty days after receiving this to file the response; if after thirty days no response has been filed, there’s a procedure for moving forward; we’ll discuss that again in other videos.

One thing to note is that there are automatic restraining orders that go into effect on you once this is filed, and upon your spouse once they are served; and we are gonna cover those, not in detail, but to just acknowledge the fact that they are there and draw your attention to them.

Here is gonna be your name and address of the person filling out this form; and this will be, oh I’m sorry; this will be the name and address of the court. This will be your name, your address and phone number because you’re not represented by an attorney. You’re gonna mark this box here as an individual, if that’s the case.

And then on here are these standard family law restraining orders, being one that will take effect on you once this is filed and on your spouse once they are served.

So that is step one of the divorce process as outlined by the courts. These are the first two forms that you’ll fill out, you’ll file them with the court and they’ll send you a case number; and once you have that filed, and you have the case number, that’s the form that you’ll serve on your spouse and then we’ll talk about process and service and how you can accomplish that in other videos.
Again, my name is Tim Blankenship, SCV Legal Doc Assist, we specialize in the divorce process in California. We are providing these videos to you to hopefully help you in preparing your divorce and representing yourself.

And don’t forget that you can use our online divorce software by clicking on this link, which will save you a lot of time and frustration trying to figure out how to complete your divorce forms in California.

And again if you don’t have the time, you can’t figure it out and you’re looking for professionals to take care of the divorce paperwork for you, please give us a call, we’d be happy to help you; or visit one of our websites. And if you’re watching this video on youtube, or one of the other video site, we do have a link to our website below so you can contact us for additional information. Thanks so much.

California Divorce Self Help Video Tutorials

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Hello there! This is Tim Blankenship, owner of Divorce661.com , and I just wanted to talk to you today a bit about the divorce videos that we’re working on.

We’re working on an entire video library; I guess you could call it where we’re going to go through step by step of the divorce process. We’re going to use the court’s websites as a guide, so we’re not instructing you based on our knowledge, ‘cause technically we can’t, but I can look at the court website and I can go through their website and look at what they’re saying to do, and then I can show you what they’re telling you to do and do it on video so it makes it easier for you to get through your divorce process if you are looking to represent yourself.

Now, we are a licensed and bonded legal document assistance firm in Santa Clarita and serve all the divorce courts in California.

We are doing this as a community service, so hopefully you can get to use the divorce videos and get through the divorce process on your own if you like. However, if you’re looking for a professional company who’s licensed by the county of Los Angeles to prepare your divorce forms, we welcome you to give us a call and find out about our affordable services.

Today I’m just going to show you where you can find those resources; I’m gonna take you to our sites here, our divorce661, and as you saw on the previous screen we do have a website for each specific area code in Los Angeles county where you can get site-specific information for local courts.

Today we’re talking about the divorce661 website here in for Santa Clarita and all of the 661 area codes and I wanted to show you where you can access all of our divorce videos and how-to videos and how to get divorced.

So, what you do is go to divorce661.com, click on Divorce Videos, and then you’ll just page down and all our videos that we’ve uploaded to YouTube are automatically brought to our website. So if you’re looking for a single source, you can either use YouTube channel and view the videos there, or you can go to our website here and you can find all the videos that we’ve prepared.

Now, we just got started on this process, and again we’re going to do a video on how to prepare each and every divorce form, so obviously it’s going to take some time to get all of that done, but eventually we will have several hundred videos on this site.

Our YouTube channel will be organized so that you can find the video forms on our video channel through YouTube, where if you’re the respondent, or the petitioner, or how to prepare the judgement and so forth, all of that will be on here.

But for now you can find all these videos on our website, we will have these on all the websites eventually; right now they’re just on the divorce661 website, and as you can see we probably have a good 250 to 300 videos right now, anything from how to prepare a divorce summons, how to serve divorce papers, the divorce process in general; you can click on these, and you’re going to get the video to pop up, you can watch it right here on-screen.

So, we hope this has been helpful, and we hope you are able to use our website as a resource for information on divorce and getting through the process.

And if you’re looking for a professional company, we would hope you would think of us. We are the only license and bonded legal document preparation service in Santa Clarita that specializes in divorce. And again, we work all throughout California and serve all the divorce courts.

Also, we’ve worked with the law firms, and we’ve worked in the court systems and the self-help centers so we have tons of experience to get you through the process, and we think you’d really like our affordable divorce service.

So again, Tim Blankenship, divorce661, we hope you enjoy the videos, either on our YouTube channel or on our website. If you have any questions, you can more information off our website or please feel free to give me a call. Thank you.

 

I Have Questions About Divorce In Los Angeles County

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Hi! My name is Tim Blankenship, owner of https://divorce661.com. We’re licensed and bonded legal document preparation service and we specialize in the divorce process.

We serve all of Los Angeles County courts and have years of experience in the courtrooms, in self-help centers and in local area family law firms. We specialize in providing an affordable divorce service.

Today, I wanted to show you how you can find answers to your frequently asked questions about the divorce process. When we get calls, we have clients who contact us and have questions about the process and some are specific questions related to their specific circumstances.

One of the issues we have found is that there is a ton of legal resources available online, some of this is good information and some of this is bad. So we wanted to direct you on how to get the correct information.

We are not a law firm; we are a legal document preparation service. So I cannot give you legal advice by law, but I could direct you to that advice and we have found that the best sites are going to be the court websites.

So that’s said, today, I’m going to show you how to access the information on frequently asked questions about the divorce process and it goes in with some very specific details.

Today we’re going to talk about the divorce 661 website. . When you come to my site, divorce661.com, what you’ll do is go to the Legal Resources tab, which by the way is a wealth of information in of itself.

Essentially, we brought in links to all the court websites, case summaries, case law and law libraries all under one page in this legal resource page where you can be taken directly to the source. So we’re not talking about it here. We’re going to take you right to the source through our website and hopefully by doing this, you’re able to locate the information you’re looking for.

Today we’re going to talk about frequently asked questions. And here, you can go to Family law self-help center on our resource page and click on Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s).

This will take us right to the court website and you can see this is the California Courts, the judicial branch of California.

Here, all the facts you’ll find or any information you’re looking for on procedure, on forms and so forth. We wanted to make this easy for folks to locate because when people search for this type of information, they go to Google and they search and they may end up in a law firm website that may not be completely accurate.

So we thought, “Hey, let’s take them right to the California Court website so they can get the answers to their questions right here from the courts”.

So as you can see, there’s divorce and separation basics — frequently asked questions, how to file for divorce, completing your divorce or legal separation, annulment information, property and debt—frequently asked questions and what we’ll end up doing is doing videos on each and every one of these separate questions just directing people right to the specific question that they have so they can watch the video, type it in Google, hit our video and get the information right up the website.

It’s just a wealth of information. You don’t have to ask a friend who doesn’t know, you don’t have to call an attorney. You can get the information right here on the court’s website.

Again, we are a legal document preparation firm. We are doing a complete series of how-to videos that includes how to fill out the form, how to find certain specific information like this one did and how to use our website to get information on divorce so you can get a better understanding of what the divorce process is going to take to get through it.

If you have any questions, please go to one of our websites. There will be a link in this article and they’ll take you right to our site or please call us for more information. Thank you so much and have a great day!

Will I Have To Go To Court For My California Divorce

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Will I Have To Go To Court For My California Divorce

Hi! My name is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. We are licensed and bonded legal document assistant firm specializing in divorce.

Today, I want to talk to you about how to avoid court when going through the divorce process in California. Many of the calls we get from our clients ask us “Tim, why have to go to court?”, and that all depends on a couple of things and there are some things we could do to help prevent you having to go to court.

Many times, when you go through an uncontested divorce case, the courts or the self-help centers, will want you to deal what’s called a ‘default judgment’.

A default judgment is where only one spouse participates in the divorce, the other spouse does not respond nor do they enter into an agreement.

We’re finding in many cases on these default judgments because the other party has not been involved whatsoever, the judge will often times ask the one party that’s initiated the divorce to come into court to explain the distribution of assets and debts.

Now, I will talk to you about another way of going through the divorce process that accomplishes exactly the same thing with a much less likelihood of having to go to court.

This is called the hybrid judgment. The hybrid judgment is very similar in that the other party will not file a response. However, the other party will enter into a written agreement.

Now when the court sees this judgment, they realize, while the other spouse did not respond, they’re still participating and have entered into an agreement and that agreement has been authorized. When that’s the case, even if the assets and debts have not been distributed evenly, that agreement has been authorized.

When that’s the case, even if the assets and debts have not been distributed evenly, they understand that there has been an agreement and that the parties have the best interest in mind of each other, they will not generally ask you to come to court when you have entered into an agreement in the judgment.

If you have further questions about the hybrid judgment or how to avoid going to court during divorce, please give us a call at 661-281-0266.

How Divorce Document Preparation Works | California Divorce

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Hi! My name is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. I’m a licensed and bonded legal document assistant registered in the County of Los Angeles. Today, I want to talk to you a little bit about what you can expect when you call our firm.

When you give us a call, the first process we’ll utilize is to have a phone consultation where we’ll ask you a series of questions on a better understanding of what your specific circumstances are and what you’re going through as far as your divorce is concerned.

Once we get a good idea of what the process is, we will discuss what the costs would be to prepare your specific forms and get you through the divorce process.

As far as the divorce process is concerned, we have broken it down into three digestible steps. The divorce process can be overwhelming at times so we have broken it down into these three steps which I’ll cover now.

The first process we will run you through is to file the initial paperwork. This will be the summons, the petitions and any remaining paperwork that is necessary based on your circumstances, whether you have kids and things at that nature. Once that is filed, we can serve that on the other spouse which will officially start the divorce process.

Part two is where we will have both parties prepare their financial disclosures. We can work with both parties to complete their financial disclosures and get those file with the court so we could move on to step three.

Step three is preparing the judgment. The judgment essentially takes all the information from the financial disclosures and all the wishes of both parties in an uncontested manner and documents the division of assets and debts and in any other parts of the divorce that you want included in the judgment will be wrapped up and included in the language of the judgment.

So that’s how we break it into three digestible steps and that’s a little bit about how our process works. When you do call us, we will talk to you more in detail about the process and exactly what you can expect, the time frames and so forth.