In this episode, we are talking about getting your divorce done right the first time.

And this week we’ve been talking all about pro pers and people representing themselves, those of you deciding, should I file my own case, should I try and do the paperwork and a lot of people will call and say “Tim, I’ve tried to file the paperwork or I started the paperwork, I printed it out.”

So, if you’re considering this, you’re going to go through that process. Some people will simply say, I’m not going to deal with this. I want to get it done right the first time.

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In this episode, we’re talking about something very simple, something that people do wrong quite a bit and this is how to submit your document to the court.

Anything that you file with the court, you’re going to want to have an original, with original signatures. This would be, obviously your initial filing paper. Summon and petition or the declaration regarding service of your disclosures and of course the judgment.

Everything you submit needs to be submitted with an original which is hole punched to the top and at least one copy and more importantly, if you’re filing your documents by mail which you can do. You don’t have to go to court every time.

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In this episode, we’re talking about how you can now get your IRS tax Returns online and that may be important if you’re going through divorce in California at least.

Recently they have instituted the need to exchange tax returns. That’s one reason if you don’t have them or you don’t have copies or you’ve lost them. You can now get copies of them online and I’m going to share with you the IRS link to do that.

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In this episode, we’re talking about attorney retainers as it pertains to Divorce.

So if you’re going to hire a Divorce attorney in California for your Divorce case, I want you to know how the retainer process works because we’ve had clients who have retained attorneys prior to finding or learning of our service.

And they did not understand how the retainer service work. And they ended up spending a lot more money than they anticipated or the money they had placed on retainer they thought it was going to take care of their entire case.

And unfortunately it didn’t get them very far at all.

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In this episode, we will talk about how we were able to help our deployed members with their California divorce.

I just to talk about our service to our military folks. I’ve done a video or two in the past and I think its being seen by our military folks who are going through divorce.

I had a call yesterday and it was a sailor in the Navy obviously, overseas, deployed on a ship and he lives in San Diego of course as many as our California Naval personnel do.

I didn’t get where he was at the ocean, I’m sure it was something he don’t want to talk about anyways or what the ship he was on.

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In this episode, I wanted to talk to the folks of California who have already filed their Divorce case and are having trouble getting their Divorce finished.

My name is Tim Blankenship. We have a licensed and bonded Legal Document Preparation Firm.

We specialize in Divorce all throughout California. And we get lots of calls as new clients calling us who haven’t started their Divorce and they want us to start from the very beginning.

And handle their Divorce case from start to finish. But we also get a lot of calls where people have started their Divorce on their own.

And if you have done that then this podcast is for you. What we find is a lot of people want to save money.

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In this episode, we’re talking about a new study that was done. And the study was done by the University of North Carolina.

And this study kind of change what the beliefs were about one of the leading causes of Divorce.

Now what this article went in to and what this study had to do with is finding out and learning more about does cohabitating or just living together with your soon to be spouse have anything to do with Divorce.

And I think it was a common held belief that in the past over the last few decades that if you live together prior to marriage that, that was one of the leading causes of Divorce or it was a cause of Divorce.

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In this episode, I want to talk about what the true value of our service in preparing divorce documents in California really is.

I get a lot of people that come to me and say, “Tim, I went to look at the forms online and it looks like it’s something I can do”.

I’ve heard a lot of people try to do it by themselves, they’ve to the court website and try to use the forms, fill out the paperwork and usually what will happen is they’ll get frustrated and decide to hire us to prepare their California divorce documents.

But us, as a legal document preparation firm filling out your forms for you is only one half of service and is not even the important part of the service.

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Today we came across something interesting. We had a client who gives us a call. They were attempting to do their own divorce and they’re having trouble all along the way but specifically in the area of trying to file their request to enter default.

And when they came to us they had had the default rejected and it was for a reason that we hadn’t seen before. We’ve never had this problem and I don’t know if it’s because we are filing paperwork for folks in a professional manner and the courts know who we are or because these person are representing themselves.

But this is what it was in regards to. So the default was rejected, she had filed the request to enter default and it was rejected and the rejection letter from the court said, “If petitioner and respondent reside at the same address or the address of the respondent on the default request is different with the address on the proof of service, petitioner must submit a declaration under penalty of perjury explaining why.

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In this episode, we’re talking about here in California Divorce cases it doesn’t matter whose fault it is when you get Divorce knowing that California is a No Fault State.

So I just want to break that down a little bit. And then tell you about some of the things that we’ve seen with some of our clients.

And you can decide if what’s fair or if you’ll agree with how the law works. So in California it is a No Fault State. The honest truth is the courts do not care why you’re getting a Divorce.

They don’t ask. No one will ask you. No one will care.

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