This article includes information on how to complete the California Summons and Petition. It includes a Slideshare and podcast. The text of this article are is the transcription of the audio.
Hi this is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com today we are talking about the upload we did to slide share. We wanted to go over the slide share and upload this audio to our slide share website what we have uploaded today which is the initial documents you’ll need to start your California divorce.
What we have here is the petition the summons the family law case cover sheet and a form called the declaration under uniform Child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act. These are the initial four forms you need to get your case filed in California and we uploaded these documents to slide share because these are documents that have some helpful information on them.
What you’ll see is if you open up the slide share and you’ll find on our slide share.net site or on our website divorce 661.com on the petition and on all the forms there’s some helpful information on what to write down. The biggest question people have when completing these documents is how to fill them out and have questions on what box do I check etc. So we are going to briefly go over these forms you can use the slide share as an example when completing your document. We are going to talk about these a little bit. First we have the petition and those on the petition that it tells you exactly what to do with the top with your name and address city state and ZIP Code where put the core information. Who’s the respondent who’s the petitioner and what box to mark for dissolution of marriage.
As you see them go down the form as far as statistical facts, declaration regarding children what to write if you have separate property, what to write if you have community property of petitioner’s requests. At number six that lets you know what to fill out as far as irreconcilable differences. As far as number seven in petitioner’s requests because either giving information on who when and how to choose legal custody and physical custody they can use this form as a as a template if you will and will help you answer some of the questions you have as to filling out the petition.
The next form you’ll see in the slide share is the summons. The summons is fairly easy to complete this not a whole lot of information that needs to go on here. Basically just rename the attorney’s name and if you’re representing yourself which if your listing to this you probably are, you’re going to be your own attorneys and your information will go there.
Please note on the back of the summons there is some important information under standard family law restraining orders just make sure to take a look and read that, it is important to know.
The next form is the family law case cover sheet. The cover sheet is only used to determine jurisdiction for the courts. They want to know where you live so they can make sure you’re in the right court. That form is fairly straightforward to fill out. It’s easy, not a lot to it, just make you sure you sign it on page 2.
If you have children there’s one more form, it’s called the declaration under uniform child custody jurisdiction and enforcement act. This form you’ll need if you have children and again is fairly straight forward. They just want to know where your children have lived for the last five years because they will be making orders over your children they want to make sure they have the ability to do that.
So I hope you found this article and our our slide share helpful. We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce, so if you want help and professional assistance in preparing your divorce I would be glad to help you out. We do provide these free tutorials and slide shares for those people who have more time than money, but if you are looking for professional divorce assistance anywhere in California please feel free to give us a call. We would be happy to help you out because that’s what we do as a business.
My name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com You can reach me direct at 661-281-0266
