Canyon Country Divorce Paralegal Service

Canyon Country Divorce Paralegal Service

If you are looking for a Canyon Country divorce paralegal service to help you with your divorce in Canyon County, you have just come across the only Canyon County Divorce paralegal service serving the Santa Clarita Valley.

Tim Blankenship, owner of Divorce661.com has been providing Canyon Country divorce paralegal services since 2012 and our company specializes in only divorce and other family law related matters. Since 2012 we have helped over 2000 folks go through the divorce process, all of which who decided to use our Canyon Country Divorce Paralegal service instead of using a divorce attorney for their divorce.

Wha a lot of people don’t know is that you don’t need a divorce attorney to handle your divorce. And just as important, a lot of people don’t know that you just can’t use any paralegal to handle your Canyon County Divorce.

While the title of this article is “Canyon Country Divorce Paralegal Service” the service that we provide is actually one of a Legal Document Assistant.

You see, many people do not know that there are alternatives to using a divorce attorney for your Canyon Country divorce and those that do frequently think that they should look for a Canyon Country divorce paralegal service.

Legal Document Assistants (LDA’s) are actually the only other service providers that can officially offer divorce services other than attorneys.  The problem is that while many people are not aware that their are alternate divorce services, even less know about the Legal Document Assistant community.

The problem this creates is that those that find paralegals offering divorce services in Canyon Country are not allowed by law to provide divorce services without the supervision of an divorce attorney. So if you find someone offering Canyon County Divorce Paralegal Services and they are a paralegal, they cannot, by law, provide you with these services without them working for an attorney. And in this capacity, you would be hiring the divorce law firm and not the paralegal directly.

So you might be asking, “why are you writing an article with the title Canyon Country Divorce Paralegal Service?”  The reason is that those folks that are aware that there are alternatives to divorce attorneys, know the word “paralegal” but don’t know the word “Legal Document Assistant”

I hope I was able to clear the air on this. So if you are looking for a Canyon Country Divorce Paralegal Service, what you are asking for is a Canyon Country Divorce Legal Document Assistant.

Please give us a call as we offer a free Canyon Country divorce consultation.  You can reach us at 661-281-0266.  Give us a call, you will be glad you did.

Santa Clarita Divorce | Changing Name With Social Security After Divorce

When you go through the divorce process, one of the options you will have is whether or not you want to change back to your former maiden name after the divorce.

The benefit of having your name converted back during the divorce is that you can use the divorce judgment as evidence of the name change which will make it easier when you go to change it with such places as the Social Security Administration.

The reason we are discussing this is because we recently had a client who said she had a problem when trying to change her name with the Social Security office.

What she reported is that the SSA office she went to were asking for a certified copy of the divorce judgment.  I was surprised to here this because over the last 4 to 5 years doing this I have never heard anyone having a problem changing their name with the Social Security office.

The issues was that this employee of the SSA was asking for a certified copy of the judgment.  The short story was our client went to Social Security, took time from work and then was turned away.  She was frustrated that they would not accept the judgment as is.

I had explained to our client that this has never been an issue and that the court does not issue certified copies of the divorce judgment when the divorce case is finished.

So i did a little research and came across the Social Security Website where is discusses what you need to make a change to your name with Social Security.  What i found it to say is that the only time you need a certified copy of anything is when producing documents and requesting an original Social Security card for the first time

Nowhere does it say you need a certified copy of your judgment when changing your name after a divorce.  You can click here on this link to be directed to the Social Security website that discusses this issue.

In any event, i think it is wise to contact your local Social Security office you will be going to so you can verify their requirements prior to taking time off of work so you are not turned away once you are there.

Santa Clarita Divorce | Can I Remarry Before Divorce Finalized?

I don’t know if people’s ears are burning or what, but today I have taken 2 calls already where people have filed for divorce and never finished their divorce case in California.  I literally just finished an article on this very topic, but have written several articles on the subject as well as recorded video and radio shows about this.

While we have talked about not finishing your divorce case, I was asked a question today that was phrased a little different.  This person wanted to know if it is possible to get married before the divorce is finalized. (or in this case not even filed yet)

So here is how I answered this question.  I would never tell someone that it is alright to get married when still married, but what i said was that we have filed so many divorce cases in California where the folks never finished their divorce case and got remarried and even had children and nothing negative happened to them and nothing stopped them from getting married.

This persons reasoning for getting remarried was a valid one so the only issue would be if they were personally okay with getting married despite not being divorced.

As far as the law is concerned, nothing negative will happen.  This is one of those situations where the new husband could say that he wants the marriage annulled because he didn’t know that the spouse was already married under the “Preexisting Marriage” reason for having the marriage annulled.  But if the new husband is in agreement with this, there obviously isn’t going to be this problem.

If you find yourself already married, or in a situation where you thought you were already divorced and later learned you are not, don’t freak out.  We can help you get your original divorce finalized.

Give us a call at 661-281-0266 and we will answer your questions and get everything figured out for you.

 

Santa Clarita Divorce | Started But Never Finished My Divorce

We get these calls all too often.  “Tim, I filed for divorce years ago and just found out my divorce was never finalized!”  What’s worse is that many of these folks have already gotten remarried.

While I know this is not something you want to find out, there is something that you can do about it.  The first thing I would recommend you do is to call us so we can look at your California divorce online summary and see what is going on as far as what documents have been filed.

We would then either have you send us what documents you have (if any) or order the filed documents from the court directly.

What we generally have to do is to take a look at what has been filed so we know what we need to complete to finalize your divorce case.  We also will need to review all divorce documents that were previously filed so we could make sure they were completed correctly and make any corrections as necessary.

What normally happens is that people file for divorce, do some, but not all of the paperwork and because the court never contacts them they figure their divorce is complete.

Here is what I have to say about that. Your divorce is not complete until you get the final divorce papers signed by the judge and it indicates a specific date your divorce will be finalized.

This article and podcast was created due to receiving yet another call from someone asking for our help to complete their divorce case who thought their divorce was finalized more than 10 years ago.

If you are going to file for divorce in California please call us to help you with your divorce.  We can help you from the very beginning or pick up where you left off in your California divorce.

We provide a full service divorce anywhere in California.

Santa Clarita Divorce | What Is Short Title On Divorce Forms

Santa Clarita Divorce | What Is Short Title On Divorce Forms

A lot of people try to start their own divorce before calling us.  That is fine, but they usually run into some trouble along the way and need our Santa Clarita divorce service to bail them out.  And we are able to do that by picking up where you left off in the process.

The forms are very confusing for many and people have a lot of questions.  One of those questions I was asked recently was, “What is the short title mean on the divorce forms?”

Some of the divorce forms have a field where it says, “Short Title.”

What the courts are looking for here are one of 2 things.  They want to know who the parties are, but not the entire names.  So this is what you would put in the “Short Title” box of the California divorce forms.

1.  The first option is to put your last name vs. their last name.  So if you guys were married it may be, “Smith vs. Smith.”  If your last names were different you would want to use the correct last names of course.

2.  The other option is to put, “IRMO Smith”.  IRMO stands for “In Re Marriage Of” and is used to reference the case by last name.  If you were every to look up a case file online you would search by using In Re Marriage Of.

Both of these practices are used by the Courts, but keep in mind that each Court and each County will have a local rule on which they prefer to be used.  Even if you use the wrong one I doubt it would ever become an issue.

So there you have it.  Now you know what to use in the field, “short title.”

I figured it was an easy post to write especially since someone had asked me about it, figured someone else would also have the same question.

Lakewood CA Divorce Paralegal Service

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Cerritos CA Divorce Paralegal Service

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