I think what Gonzalo liked the most, aside from us quickly handling the divorce, is that we literally took care of every aspect of their divorce. We handled the divorce paperwork, all the procedural processes, which includes us going to the divorce court and handling all the filings.
Neither Gonzalo nor his spouse had to go to court and all paperwork was handled through our office. That is just one of the great things we do for you is that you will not have to go to court if you use our service for your divorce.
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Today was an interesting Monday. Still reeling from learning of the death of on of my best friends yesterday, my daughter is heading leaving for college tonight and my wife is gone on a work trip to Georgia for the entire week. Yesterday I wrote about losing a best friend of mine. It was very difficult to hear the news and today was a rough day. It was nearly impossible to get into the work groove and I just felt like I was totally out of it today. What makes it even more difficult it that they have recently moved to Atlanta, Georgia and they are quite a bit away. What will be interesting to see what happens is if the service is this week. My wife is about 2 hours outside of Atlanta working until Thursday this week, so I may have to fly out alone to Atlanta and meet my wife so we can attend the service in Georgia and then possibly fly home together over the weekend. We have nothing planned and there are no details as of now. On top of this, our daughter is moving out today as her first day of class at UCLA is this Thursday. She was supposed to move out over the weekend, then today and now that it goes into the evening it appears this has been further delayed until tomorrow. It appears flying the coop is much more difficult than she thought. And, by the way, this is a little bit of payback during her younger years when she would get mad and say she is moving out, which happened just about every week from when she was 13 to about 16. Now that she is 20 she is a bit more grown up. I hope to keep what I am feeling and what I am going through in my mind for later so that when I come across people that may not be feeling well or going through tough times, or just not being nice that perhaps they are also going through something that effects the way they are with people. I know today I was pretty short with people and wanted to chop off a few heads of people that irritated me. Thanks to my wife, who kept me thinking clearly and told me not to say anything i will regret later. Talk to you later. Tim Today I learned that one of my best friends, Mauricio Saint Martin, lost his battle with cancer. It is a tough pill to swallow as he and his wife, Susanna, were just at our house this past mothers day to hang out and have drinks. He had been battling cancer for a about 2 years, and the updates we got seemed to point to nothing less than positive news along the way. They had aggressively treated it and it had been caught early. Even after surgery at one point, they had said the cancer was gone. It is interesting how we as humans handle these things or maybe it is just me. I am a little closed in and don’t like to talk about these types of things. Even now, this Sunday morning receiving this information, have nobody to talk about it with. Mauricio and his family had recently moved to Georgia so they are quite a bit away from us. And my wife had just left to Georgia this morning for a week long work project so she is not here to talk about it. She was equally good friends with his wife, Susanna and we had planned on seeing them soon and their new place in Georgia. I had just learned that he had passed and I was on the phone with my wife who was at LAX and i knew she did not know yet. She was about to get on a flight with Delta to go to Georgia and I did not want to tell her then news just before she got on a 5 hour flight with nobody to talk to. So I will most likely be breaking the news to her after she calls me to tell me she landed. I know she will understand why I didn’t tell her, even though i already new. So this is my only outlet, to turn to my blog and just write what is happening in my life. It really makes you think about life. Mauricio is just a few years older than me and I am 45. It seems much to early to be losing friends of my age to cancer. How we respond to learning bad things is another thing. I had two different reactions at the same time. My first was to just say fuck it. Life is what it is and there is no rhyme or reason to who cancer takes. My dad died as a result of cancer at just 57 and sometimes is seems life is just unfair. My “fuck it” attitude makes me think negatively as far as what we try to achieve in life. It makes me want to throw in the towel and stop trying to achieve the high goals i have in life. But at the same time I also felt this motivation to step on the gas on the things I want to achieve in life and realize that I just might not have the time I think I have to get everything done. I have always felt that I will live to 90 or so and that I have all this time to do the things I want. However after receiving news like this it makes me feel that life could end tomorrow and I better get to it and do all the things I want to accomplish and fast. It also makes me thing about leaving a legacy. Yes, we have all our financial matters in order, meaning we do have our life insurance policies set up that would handle everything in the event of death, but what about the income I produce. If I were to die today, everything would end. In fact, my first thought about my friend Mauricio dying is if the family would be okay financially as he was the breadwinner of the family. I could not imagine leaving my wife behind without some type of succession plan financially. What kind of legacy would I leave behind? And of course i have no idea how to talk to friend who have recently lost their spouse and father and would be afraid of coming across insensitive. For sure there is a range of emotions right now. Anger, doubt, to give up, to fight harder, sadness. The next couple of weeks will be tough especially with my wife gone. But I will have to continue to show up to work and for the rest of the word life just goes on without much notice. 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. If you have children and are going through a divorce, will you have to go to court? Put another way, if you have children is going to court mandatory? I was asked this the other day of a new client of ours who said she had heard from a friend who went through divorce that if you have children, you have to go to court. This is not the case. As with any other issues you need to settle as part of your California divorce, the only reason you would have to see a judge or go to a court hearing is in the event you do not agree. Because we are always discussing the amicable approach to divorce in California, i will answer this questions like i do all others. The only reason you will ever go to court is in the event you and your spouse do not agree. The same applies to when you have children and going through a divorce in California. The courts don’t want you in their courtroom unless you ask to to have your matter heard by a judge which is called a hearing or trial. Just because you have kids does not mean that court is mandatory. When going through a divorce in California, the children are just one more part of the puzzle that needs to be figured out between the parties. You will need to come up with a parenting plan of sorts. This may be a full parenting plan where you and your spouse account for every minute of every day of your children’s custody schedule or can be as simple as indicating to the court that you and your spouse will have joint legal and joint physical custody of the children. Most of our clients decide that they do not want the court’s involvement in their divorce. Meaning, they prefer not to have specific child custody orders in place so they can have the flexibility in their parenting. Many of our clients do this because they do not feel it necessary to memorialize or put into writing how they are going to handle the child custody situation. You can decide to have a detailed child custody schedule or you can simply say that the parties will make the decisions regarding the child custody and visitation on an ongoing basis in the best interest of the children. Most people re surprised to know that it can be this simple when it comes to children and divorce, but it is just that simple. Or i should say, can be that simple if you want it to be. The other day I helped clients with a simple divorce in Santa Clarita. They were married for less than a year, they had no children and no assets or debts. Not to mention both parties were very young still under 20 years old. They had called around in Santa Clarita thinking they needed an attorney for their divorce and only after they were quoted between $2000 and $5000 to handle their divorce did he attempt to look for alternatives to get help with their divorce in Santa Clarita. Because we worked on fixed fee pricing and our pricing is right on the front page of our website, they found our site while driving around town and gave me a call. I had them come into the office and took a look at what they had and their case couldn’t have been any more simple or straightforward. In about two hours I completed all of the paperwork for their divorce and they paid a flat fee of just $699. Their question to me was why are the costs for Attorneys so high and why did they get quotes from between $2000 and $5000? My answer was I honestly think divorce attorneys size people up and try and figure out how much they can get out of people. But what is frustrating is that had these clients not found my divorce service in Santa Clarita they would’ve ended up paying several thousand dollars which they did not have to. This couple had a divorce case that was simple enough for me to handle in my office in less than two hours. Had they gone to an attorney and spent those several thousand dollars I guarantee their divorce case still would not be even close to being started or complete. This is because attorneys work off of billable hours and they don’t want to complete a divorce case quickly. They would rather take a two to $5000 retainer and Bill hourly until it’s gone and then mysteriously the divorce case might be finished. When we handle divorce cases of any level of complexity, we do it on a flat fee pricing schedule. We handle all levels of complexity when it comes to divorce the only prerequisite in working with us is that you and your spouse are somewhat going to work together to try and come to an agreement related to the terms of your divorce. The short story here is there are alternatives to using a divorce attorney in Santa Clarita. We handle divorce cases all throughout California for a flat fee. 90% of the work we do for clients it’s spread out across California and our work is done remotely with no office appointment even necessary. So if you’re looking for help with your divorce in Santa Clarita or anywhere in California make sure to give me a call so we can talk about your specific situation and see if our services would be a good fit for you. When you were completing your California Divorce petition form number FL – 100 you need to complete section 3 where it says date of marriage and date of separation. In the last week alone I have had two phone calls from potential clients who started their divorce case on their own and who did not complete the date of separation. Meaning they did not put a date where it asks for date of separation nor did they indicate the length of marriage. When I tell them that their petition is faulty and will have to be amended and corrected and refiled they usually explain that the reason they did not put in the date of separation is because they are not legally separated or because they are still living together. It does not matter if you are still living together or not you still have to put in a date of separation and indicate the length of marriage. because you’re going to have to re-file an amended petition and have your spouse re-served. Here are a few ideas of what you can use for the date of separation. First if you have no other date in mind meaning, meaning you didn’t discuss a previous date to use as a date of separation most people just default and use the date they are filing for divorce as the date of separation. You can do this even if you are still living together. Second if there is a date in the past that you either discussed getting divorced or you moved out of the house or even if you moved into the spare bedroom or started sleeping on a couch that is a data separation you could use as well. Keep in mind the date of separation you use can be very important in some divorce cases. However if you are going through an amicable divorce the date of separation is not going to be that important. Meaning if you are in agreement to all the terms of your divorce the date of separation will not play an important role. Because we see these types of mistakes and others often we recommend you use our divorce service from day one before you ever file a single divorce document. What people don’t know is if you make even a single mistake or miss even a single check box on the divorce petition it will have to be amended and if you are several months into the process of your divorce this will cause the six-month cooling off period to begin again The word stipulate means “to agree” to something. I get lots of calls where people want to modify, change, or create new orders related to their divorce both during the divorce proceeding or years after their divorce has been finalized. There is a misconception that in order to have these orders changed that you have to go to court and see the judge. This is not true and would be best explained with an example. I had a guy call this week that said he wanted to file a motion to go to court so he could reduce his child support. His income had gone down, while his former spouse’s had gone up. His change in circumstances warranted making a change to the child support. He was calling us because he had contacted an attorney who wanted $4,500 to file the motion and represent him for this action. When he spoke with me, the first thing I asked him is if his spouse would agree to make the changes without having to go to court. I told him that in cases where the numbers don’t lie, such as in this case using a dissomaster calculation (what the court’s use to calculate support) it is worth a shot to contact his former spouse and just explain it to her cordially to see if they can come to an agreement without having to go to court. I told him to simply state the facts. That his income has gone down and hers has gone up and per a new calculation the child support should be changed. He then asked me why the attorney he spoke to would not have mentioned this tactic. My answer was that there is no money to be made by parties that are in agreement. They would rather suggest a course of action that drives in the most revenue for their law firm, essentially doing what is best for them and not their clients. Make sure to grab your copy of my book while your at it. There is a lot of great information and you will learn a lot about divorce. I thought I have seen it all when it comes to fraud being committed by paralegal companies, but this one takes the cake. Here is what happened… I get a lot of calls where someone has hired a different divorce paralegal company (their first mistake, lol) and the company they hired either didn’t finish the job, took the money and ran or just didn’t know what they were doing. In this case, I got a call from a guy who had been referred to another company by a co-worker. He came in because the company he used would not return his calls after more than a year had gone by. When he came in to my office, I could tell they had no idea what they were doing. Just about every document they had completed was done wrong. In fact, I have seen people trying to do their own divorce case do better than them. They had such a bad job that we had to completely start over. So I took care of his entire case right there on the spot. Then he calls the co-worker that had referred him to this company and tells her what happened. So she then calls and comes in a few days later. We discover the same problems with her paperwork and have to start her divorce case totally from scratch. As I am looking at the online case summary of the documents that were filed I noticed that a fee waiver had been filed. I found this odd because she earns over $100,000 per year. I asked her about the fee waiver and she had no idea what I was talking about. So I had to tell her that the company she had used to help her with her divorce filed a fee waiver to ask the court to waive the court fees. This is only done when you are low income or unemployed which is not the case for her. This then got me thinking. So I looked at the case summary of her co-worker and a fee waiver was also filed on his behalf as well. She was shocked to learn that this paralegal company had forged the fee waiver. Why would they do this? Because instead of paying the court fee, which is currently $435 with the money they were paid, they kept the money and forged a fee waiver to put more money in their pocket. To forge a fee waiver one would have to make up an expense sheet and show income, to include pay stubs to verify the income. This means that they would have had to doctor up fake pay stubs as well. The point of the story is that there are criminals in every industry. Now, I don’t even consider these companies in my industry because they should not even be running a business. They are unlicensed, unregistered paralegal companies who are not allowed to be in business in the first place. I have written a letter to the Court Clerks Supervisor to bring this to their attention. I don’t know if there is anything that can be done about it or if they will even care, but I would imagine that the courts would care if there is a company systematically forging fee waivers and essentially stealing from the courts. Make sure to do your due diligence before hiring a paralegal company for your divorce. Make sure they are registered as Legal Document Assistants who are the only people who can handle your divorce in California. For a limited time I am giving away a free copy of my book to anyone that subscribes. The whole idea behind writing the book in the first place was to get this information into as many hands as possible to share the knowledge I have about divorce and my personal opinion of what the divorce process should look like. The book is called, “Why You Don’t Need A Divorce Attorney – One Paralegal’s Take On Divorce, Responsibility and Compromise”. The idea behind the book was to share a better way of going through the divorce process by using services such as ours and even by using mediation. My hope is that you will learn that there are better ways to get divorced than having to hire a divorce attorney. Many people don’t even know that services like mine exist to help them with their divorce. In fact, I was just doing a Google search and typed the words “divorce” and Google had already automatically placed the word “attorney” as the next word it thought I would be selecting. So Google does not help when you are looking for a different type of service which means you have to already know about a service like ours. I did not write the book to make money from royalties, although that is happening. I make enough to pay for a Coffee each day and would rather give that up and provide a downloadable copy of the book for free as an added value to my clients and potential clients. So make sure to sign up for your free copy of my book. 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