Who Can Serve Divorce Papers | Santa Clarita

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Who Can Serve Divorce Papers | Santa Clarita

Hi there! This is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. We’re a licensed and bonded legal preparation service and we do specialize in the divorce process.

Today, we are going to talk about who can be a process server, who can you use to serve your divorce papers essentially.

I wanted to give you the court’s version of who can be a process server and what they consider to be about process’ service when it comes to your divorce.

Now, what we’re talking about here is serving the initial divorce documents, so this would be your summons and petition in particularly. So, looking at the court’s website, we’ve identified a process server as the ‘server’ or the ‘process server’ can be a friend or relative, a coworker, a county sheriff or marshal, professional process server, or anyone over 18 who is not part of the case.

So, when it comes to divorce, this is a very important aspect right here. This essentially means, you cannot serve your own divorce paper, you cannot hand your divorce paperwork to your own spouse. It may make the most sense especially in many cases where husband and wife are still living together.

When you file for divorce it may seem silly to have to get someone else, another third party, to hand the paperwork done for them so they can then hand the paperwork to your spouse, but if you don’t do that, you’re not going to have an effective process of service. You cannot serve your own spouse—I just want to make that very clear.

Make sure that the person is not party to the case. In divorce, if it’s not you or your husband, it can pretty much be anyone else as long as they’re 18 years of age and make sure that they know how to fill out the proof of service of summons.

When you work with our service, our legal document preparation service for your divorce, we will take care of all that. In fact, we don’t even like to use the process of having a process server go out or using the proof of service.

We use what’s called a Notice and Acknowledgement of Receipt. It’s an easier way and a cost effective way because you don’t have to hire a process server to server the divorce papers.

If you’re looking for a professional, licensed and bonded legal preparation service, please give us a call. You can find us at divorce661.com, or any of our websites. We do specialize in the divorce process. We provide a 100% online divorce solution, so any in Los Angeles County or California for that matter, we would be happy to help you out. You can reach us at 661-281-0266.

What Is A No Fault Divorce | Santa Clarita

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What Is A No Fault Divorce | Santa Clarita

Hi there! This is Tim Blankenship owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. We’re a licensed and bonded legal document preparation service specialized in the divorce process.

Today, we’re answering the question ‘What is a “no fault” divorce?’ and ‘Is California a “no fault” divorce state?’.

So, because I’m not an attorney, I can’t give legal advice and whenever I feel that it’s kind of on the edge, I will always give you the information but I’ll point you to where I found it. So it’s not me giving you the advice, technically, it’s the court.

Today we are answering this question using the California court (judicial branch of California) website– Frequently Asked Questions and let’s see what they say about what is “no fault” divorce.

In California, says, a “no fault” divorce is any divorce where the spouse or domestic partner that is asking for the divorce does not have to prove that the other spouse or domestic partner did something wrong.

California is a “no fault” divorce state, which means that to get divorced in California you NEVER have to prove that the other person did something wrong. To get a no fault divorce, 1 spouse or domestic partner has to state that the couple cannot get along. Legally, this is called “irreconcilable differences”.

Now, this is interesting because I get calls and on occasion the spouses contacted me wants to tell me what they’ve done or what the spouse has done and why they’re getting divorce and they want to file first because they feel there’ll be some advantage. Well, there is no advantage to filing first. Second of all, the courts honestly don’t care what reason, even if you don’t have a reason at all to get divorced. All you have to do is mark this box saying irreconcilable differences and there’s no proof.

They’re never going to ask you on what’s going on or why can’t you get along. They don’t care. That’s why it’s called a “no fault” divorce and California is a “no fault” divorce state. So you don’t have to ever reason to get divorced.

If you’re looking for an affordable way to get through your divorce process, please give us a call or visit our website for more information.

Thank you!

What If Spouse Won’t Agree To Divorce | Santa Clarita

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What If Spouse Won’t Agree To Divorce | Santa Clarita

Hi! My name is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. I’m a licensed and bonded legal document preparation assistant that specialize only in divorce.

Today we are talking about and answering the question of what happens if my wife doesn’t want to give me a divorce.

So, if your spouse doesn’t want to cooperate, there is a way to still work on the divorce process and I’m going to use the California Court’s website to answer this question because in their Frequently Asked Questions here, they have responded to this question – so instead of just me giving you what I think, I’m going to refer you to into the court’s website as they answered the question here for.

So the question here is ‘What if my spouse or domestic partner does not want to give me a divorce?’.

And the answer is: In California, it is not necessary for both spouses or domestic partners to agree to the divorce. Either spouse or domestic partner can decide and their marriage and partnership is not necessary for the other spouse to agree or give you a divorce.

The spouse or domestic partner who does not want to get divorced cannot stop the process by refusing to participate in the case. If she did not have to sign anything to agree to the divorce, if your spouse or domestic partner does not participate in the divorce case, you’ll still be able to get a default judgment and the divorce will go through.

So, sometimes when I’m preparing uncontested divorce cases, one of the parties that I may be assisting will ask: “Well Tim, she’s not going to fill it out any of the paperwork, she’s not going to respond and she honestly doesn’t care one way or the other and I said: “That’s fine, there’s nothing the spouse can do to stop you from getting divorced”. As this court says here, they can’t stop it even if they don’t participate. It’s called a default judgment.

I’ve done a video on what it takes to get a default judgment and that happens all the time. Generally, courts will approve those if there’s an unequal division of assets and debts. There might be a reason for the court to call you in and have a couple of questions for you. But if your spouse doesn’t want to respond and they don’t want to participate, you can get what’s called a default judgment.

Again, my name is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist, licensed and bonded legal document preparation service, specializing in the divorce process.

Does It Matter Who Files For Divorce First | Santa Clarita Divorce

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Does It Matter Who Files For Divorce First | Santa Clarita Divorce

Hi! This is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. I’m a licensed and bonded legal document assistant specializing in the divorce process in California.

Today we’re answering the question “Does it matter if I file for divorce first or is there a disadvantage to my spouse filing for divorce and me being the respondent?”.

I get that question all the time, parties calling me saying “oh I think my wife is going to file for divorce, should I file first? Is there any advantage?”

Here is the video where I explain if it matters who files for divorce first.

So, because I’m not an attorney I cannot technically give you legal advice but I can point you in the right direction of where to find this information. So what I will do is direct you to the court’s website and they’ve answered the question here for us.

What it says here is ‘Am I at a disadvantage if my spouse or domestic partner files for divorce first?’

  1. Normally, it does not matter who is the first to file the divorce papers. The court does not give any preference to the first person to file (the petitioner), or any disadvantage to the person who is the respondent.

So, there you have it folks. It doesn’t matter if you file it first. In fact, I had this question just come up yesterday— one of the spouses called me and he was getting ready to file and he said that he’s advised by his spouse that his is going to run out and file first and I said “That’s fine, let her do it”. According to the courts, they don’t give a preference either way.

The paperwork is going to be the same. You’ll just be the respondent instead of the petitioner.

Again, this is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist.  We are headquartered in Santa Clarita, CA and serve all the courts in California.

We provide affordable divorce document preparation services. We can get you all the way through the divorce process at an affordable price.

 

What Is An Uncontested Divorce Case | Santa Clarita Divorce Help

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What Is An Uncontested Divorce Case | Santa Clarita Divorce Help

Hi! My name is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist here in Santa Clarita. We’re licensed and bonded legal document preparation service and we specialize in the divorce process serving all of California.

Today we’re talking about what is an uncontested divorce. So, what I am going to do is take you to the court website and let you know what they’re telling us an uncontested divorce is, reference in the paperwork that has been processed.

So an uncontested case, is where you have filed for divorce and your spouse has responded by filing a response and you have or are going to enter into a written agreement..  That is really it.

Here is what the Court website says about what an uncontested divorce case is:

  • Your spouse or domestic partner filed a response to your summons and petition;
    AND

  • The two of you have a written agreement about your divorce or separation, dividing your property and debt, child custody and visitation, and support issues.

So in short, an uncontested divorce simply means you did not go before the judge and have a trial.

So anything short of having a trial means you have an uncontested divorce especially if you’re in agreement, there’s been either a summon and petition or just a petition filed not necessarily a response and the most important part is that you’ve entered into a written agreement and you did not have the trial.

We specialize in uncontested divorce cases, amicable divorce cases or any divorce where you and your spouse are going to try to work out the details of your divorce together and need someone like us for information and to process your divorce paperwork to make sure it was done correctly.

Again, my name is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist. If you’re looking for an affordable and professional way to get through the divorce process at a flat rate, please give us a call or visit our website for more information. Thank you.

How To Prepare California Divorce Response | Santa Clarita Divorce

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Hi there! Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist, we’re a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in the divorce process.

We are licensed and bonded in the County of Los Angeles and serve all the courts in California, and we can help you regardless of your location.

If you’re looking for a paralegal type of service or a legal document preparation service to prepare your divorce forms professionally, please give us a call.

If you have not filed for divorce make sure to check out these articles and videos.

How To Prepare California Divorce Petition

How To Prepare California Divorce Summons

Now let’s talk about preparing the divorce response form. We are working on a series of how-to videos. You can find all the videos on how to prepare all the different divorce forms on our YouTube channel and on our website.

So, this article is going to discuss  how to prepare the response if you have been served with divorce paperwork. What you’re going to want to file, not necessarily, we’re not attorneys, and we can’t advise you on what to do. There are ways to proceed through the divorce without filing a response, so we’re not going to get into the when-you-should or if-you-should file a response, we are not able to discuss that as a legal document preparation service—speak to a lawyer about that.

We’re just going to go through how you would file the response paperwork if that’s what you chose to do. Let’s flip over to the response paperwork, FL-120. What we’re going to do is we’re just going to go through the form and show you how you would prepare it if you were going to do this on your own.

We’ll go step-by-step. So, you’re going to complete this if you’ve been served paperwork; this will be the response to a divorce.

So we are going to say we are John Smith, we are 123 Main Street, input your city, state and zip code. Then put your phone number in here. Fax number if you want, not necessary; phone number, definitely; the courts are going to contact you, possibly. E-mail address is optional. Here you are going to put “In Pro Per”, or you can simply say “Self Represented”, either one will work. County of Los Angeles and we’re going to use our local area code, one of the branches here at 900 and Third Street.

Then you’re going to put your name here as the petitioner; actually that’s incorrect. The petitioner, if you’re filing this response, you’re going to be the respondent.

This form is very similar to the summons, so we’re going to say here in response, dissolution of marriage, we also have some other options here but we’re just talking about dissolution of marriage. This is talking about residency, if the respondent has been a resident of the state for the last six months, or you can mark both boxes, it’s up to you.

Here you put the date of marriage, date of separation, years married and months married; this gives a tally here, a total length of time of your marriage.

Here you’ll either mark if there are no minor children, or if there are, you’re going to give the name, date of birth, age, and sex.

Separate property, we’ve discussed this in the other videos; you can indicate here your separate property. If you want to know more information about what is separate property, what is community property, we will be doing a video of that as well. For purposes of this, we do use some boiler point language in here, basically that suggests that we’re going to provide this information at a later date. If we’re preparing your divorce forms for you professionally; you don’t have to worry about that we will take care of that for you.

Page 2 is going to be your community property; again like the separate property on page 1, this is the property, and you can itemize it here, or you can use the boiler point language.

There are some things in here that we don’t normally see, it may or may not apply, but then again this is just to indicate that you’re responding, that this is the dissolution of marriage based on irreconcilable difference, where it’s going to be 99% of the time.

And here you have your requests for a particular order; so if you have children, who do you want the custody be to, if you want it to be you the respondent, and make sure you remember who you are, which part you are, since we are working on the response, you’re going to be the respondent, so if we’re talking about you and the things that you want, make sure that you check the box respondent box. Of course there’s the joint box if you want the legal custody be joint, physical custody be joint, and so forth.

These boxes in here are related to other forms that are attached to the response, that are for holiday schedules, and child custody visitation schedules, and so forth; again we will be doing videos for all those down the road.

You can ask the court to terminate to the court jurisdiction and ability to award spouse support to the other party if you like. You can ask the court to make orders for property rights. And you can ask for your name to be restored to your maiden name if you like.

Don’t forget to date it, type or print your name here, and you can sign it here, and this would be the form that you would file with the court. You also want to serve a copy on your spouse; but the important thing is that you file a copy, just don’t forget to put case number.

The case number will be on the original summons and petition that you received when you were served, so don’t forget to put the case number in here otherwise the court will have difficulty in filing this form and making sure that it’s registered under your case number, so don’t forget to put that there.

Again, I am Tim Blankenship, I’m the, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist, a licensed and bonded legal document preparation service. We service folks looking to get through your divorce process in an affordable way; those who are not using their attorneys, representing themselves, and are mostly in agreement with the divorce process.

We’re doing a series of videos here, to help folks find this information; they can self-prepare their forms, using the forms that we’re showing you on the video.

Or give us a call and if you’d like an affordable way to get your divorce process done professionally we’d be happy to help. Thanks so much .if you have any questions please give us a call or visit one of our websites.

If you have not filed for divorce make sure to check out these articles and videos.

How To Prepare California Divorce Petition

How To Prepare California Divorce Summons

 

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.

We Handle Divorce Cases Anywhere In California

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How are you doing? This is Tim Blankenship, owner of SCV Legal Doc Assist, a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce.

Anyways, as I drive out to Rancho Cucamonga, I remember that I have several cases in the Rancho Cucamonga courts, in the San Bernardino County courts, and wanted to comment on the fact that a lot of folks don’t know that even though we are headquartered in Santa Clarita, that we service all courts in Los Angeles county, as well as other surrounding counties in California

The divorce process is identical aside from there being a few local forms which are easy to locate once you’re on the website.

Our firm has cases in San Bernardino County, San Diego County, up in Sacramento; just about everywhere.

There are like fifty some odd counties in California, and we have cases in quite a few of them. So if you are anywhere in California and you happen to read this article, we can help you.

Some folks locally like to drive in, I don’t know, maybe a fifty-sixty mile radius, but many of our cases that we handle are completely done over the phone, by fax and email.

So, give us a call. You can reach us direct at 661-281-0266, or you can get more information on our website at divorce661.com.

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.

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