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.

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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.

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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.

Valencia Divorce : Self Help Divorce Services Now Online

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Our Valencia divorce service (Serving all of California) is now provided online as well.

I have never been a proponent of the self-help divorce services. You know the ones where you pay a few hundred bucks, sometimes as little as $100 and they promise to help you complete your divorce for you?

The reason I never liked those types of services is because they left all the hard complicated process up to the person completing their own divorce and provided little if any explanation or instruction on how to properly process the divorce forms. This causes many people to end up hiring a company like ourselves to help complete the divorce case. So this meant people were just throwing away their money.

Our online divorce tutorials at California Divorce Tutor are different. This is because we have recorded the process of how to complete your Valencia divorce (serving all of California) step by step, every form with instructions that you can understand. Watch this video for more information.

 

Valencia Divorce : Divorce Judgment Checklists

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When going through a Valencia divorce, one of the most helpful things we provide you is a divorce judgment checklist. With our full service Valencia divorce process, we utilize these divorce judgment checklists. Now, on California Divorce Tutor, where we show you step by step how to complete your Valencia divorce ( or anywhere in California) we provide you with the divorce judgment checklists that show you exactly what forms you need to complete depending on the type of divorce you are processing.

Watch the video below to learn more about the divorce judgment checklists and California Divorce Tutor.

 

We provide both a full service and online self help divorce service throughout California.