Chatsworth Divorce Full Service Divorce Firm

Chatsworth Divorce Full Service Divorce Firm

Today, we’re talking about our Full Service Divorce Paralegal Process serving the Chatsworth Courthouse.

So we are a Full Service Divorce Firm. What that means is we take care of everything and leave nothing up to you.

We will take care of filling out the forms. We will go down to the Chatsworth Courthouse and we will file them.

We’ll take care of serving any and all documents throughout the process.

We’ll take care of completing financial disclosures for both of you and your spouse because we are a neutral third party.

All the financial disclosures, listing all the assets and debts, doing the income declarations, we take care of all that.

So essentially you won’t have to worry about going down to the courthouse.

You won’t have to worry about picking using forms or had to fill out the forms or what the process and procedure of serving forms and filing forms is.

We take care of all of that including your putting together your final agreements otherwise known as the judgment or marital settlement agreement.

All that is, included in our Full Service Divorce Process, filling out the forms, getting your agreements in place, dealing with the court for you, working with both parties.

So we make it simple. We make it fast and efficient. And it’s obviously a very affordable way of getting through your Divorce in Chatsworth.

So make sure if you’re clinging around looking for assistance with your Divorce, if you’re looking for a true Full Service Divorce Firm in Chatsworth, please give us a call.

I think you want to talk to me and again I’ll provide you a free phone consultation. The number is 661-281-0266.

The number is right here on your screen. Go ahead and give me a call.

I’ll be happy to give you a free phone consultation. Talk to you about the specifics of your Divorce.

And I think you’ll be very pleased with our cost and how we can help you with your Divorce case in Chatsworth.

Give me a call, free phone consultation. You can’t go wrong. Talk to you soon.

 

Chatsworth Divorce Court Self Help Center

Chatsworth Divorce Court Self Help Center

Today, we’re talking about the changes that the Chatsworth Courthouse.

If you haven’t heard, the San Fernando Divorce Court is moving all from functions related to Divorce to Chatsworth.

And so we’re talking about the Chatsworth Self Help Center services.

As of now there’s no reporting of a Self Help Center that’s going to be implemented at the Chatsworth Courthouse. I’ll definitely update you if we hear more on that.

But I want to let you know that if you are looking for assistance with your Divorce in Chatsworth, if you’re going to file in Chatsworth Divorce or if you’re going to file to Chatsworth Courthouse or you file it in the jurisdiction of the Chatsworth Courthouse we can help you with your Divorce filing.

We can help you with all the paperwork. We’ll go down to the Chatsworth Courthouse and file all the documents for you.

Take care of the service, the disclosures and putting together all your agreements.

So essentially what I’m saying here is we are a Full Service Divorce Paralegal Firm serving the Chatsworth Court.

And again that’s all where the divorce cases are going to be going to.

So please give us a call if you like some assistance with your Divorce filing at the Chatsworth Courthouse. We take care of everything from start to finish.

We have all the software, all the court forms that the courts and attorneys have so we can certainly help you with your divorce at the Chatsworth Courthouse.

My name is Tim Blankenship. I am the owner here.

Please feel free to give me a call for a free phone consultation at 661-281-0266 and let us take the hard work of filing your divorce away from you and make it easy and streamlined, so, you can get going with your life and we’ll take care of completing your divorce for you.

Chatsworth Divorce | How To Start Your Divorce Case

Chatsworth Divorce | How To Start Your Divorce Case

I want to talk to you today about how to start your divorce case at the Chatsworth Courthouse.

So one big misconception is that people feel they have to have all their agreements in place in order to file for divorce.

All their financial stuff, custody, visitation and all that, and that’s just not the case. The courts only require a handful of documents to file your case.

I’m going to name them off for you. Number one is the petition. Number two is the summons.

And then number three for Chatsworth Courthouse specifically in LA County is a jurisdictional form.

They want to know where the parties live and make sure you’re in the right court.

And if you have children there’s form called a UCCJEA. They just want to know where the children lived for the last five years.

Those four forms alone, is, all it takes to file and start your divorce case in Chatsworth. The petition rather has very basic information.

All they need to know is your name and address, your spouse’s name and address, the children’s names and date of births, the date of marriage and the date of separation, nothing to do with property at this time.

A basic idea if there’s going to be a spousal support. If a basic idea if there’s going to be you know what the custody arrangements you would like whether it’s joint or solo custody physical and legal.

And that’s basically it. It’s very kind of scary that how much information it takes or how little information it takes rather to start a divorce case.

Now the reason we want to provide this video is because a lot of people when they’ve call us they waited until they had a lot or most of their agreements in place before filing for divorce.

And what happened is until you file your divorce papers and serve your spouse the clock doesn’t start ticking on that sixth month cooling off period.

So we encourage people when our clients call us for service the first thing we do is file and serve because that starts the clock on the process.

So there’s no delay in completing your divorce at the Chatsworth Courthouse.

Tim Blankenship specializing in California Divorce and we provide affordable divorce solution for folks going through divorce anywhere in California.

Feel free to give us a call for a free phone consultation 661-281-0266 or just go to Divorce661.com for more information.

159: How Both Spouses Can Work With Same Realtor During Divorce

In this episode, we will discuss how both spouses can work with same Realtor during divorce in California.

We have people that come to us not usually disagreeing. They know they have to get rid of the property one way or another.

It’s either to sell it, refinance it, or even someone staying in the home and keeping the current mortgage if they can’t refinance.

At least our clients, we’re doing more amicable style cases here as opposed to litigated cases. And they’re trying to work on it.

But sometimes they have questions like what are my options?

So I brought up some other slides here that I wanted to kind of just go over, see if this is going to cooperate. Go down and up, okay.

Make sure to listen to the latest podcast.

Is California Spousal Support Or Alimony Taxable Income

Is California Spousal Support Or Alimony Taxable Income

Today, we’re talking more about spousal support and alimony payments and specifically how they work regarding your taxes.

We’re going right now for a publication print out by the California Franchise Tax Board.

And this video is going to answer the question if, and here is the question, are alimony payments considered taxable income.

So eventually the question in a couple different ways, the prior videos we talked specifically about can you deduct it?

So that would be regarding going to the person who’s paying spousal support or alimony in California.

This goes to the person receiving it is all the payments considered all the alimony or spousal support payments considered taxable income.

And this is what the Franchise Tax Support says. Alimony from your spouse or former spouse is taxable to you either you received. Tax payors reports alimony in command.

Okay, so, alimony from your spouse or former spouse is taxable to you and that you receive.

So if your receiving spousal support and it meets all the criteria that we previously talked about, if you haven’t watched the video you look for the one regarding can I do debt alimony paid.

We talked about five criteria or requirements for that to be deducted.

I’m sure that applies to that receiving it because if you can’t claim it as a tax or as an alimony payment you’re not obviously going to claim it as income received if you’re receiving the California alimony or spousal support payments.

So make sure you check this series of videos because it kind of go hand and hand. You’ll probably want to watch all of them.

We’re going to shoot all about 12 videos regarding alimony and spousal support and how it’s treated tax wise.

And again we’re referring right to the State of California Franchise Tax Board publication regarding alimony.

Please feel free to give us a phone call for a free phone consultation 661-281-0266 or go to our website at Divorce661.com again for more information.

Chatsworth Divorce Court | How Long Does Divorce Process Take?

Chatsworth Divorce Court | How Long Does Divorce Process Take?

Today, we’re talking about how long does the divorce process takes when you’re going through a divorce in Chatsworth at the Chatsworth Courthouse?

And honestly it’s no different in anywhere in LA County because Family Law has now moved to Chatsworth.

A lot of people are searching for assistance at the Chatsworth Courthouse. So this is the way of getting in front of people.

So Divorce six months, I’m sure you’ve heard California has what’s called a cooling off period.

It takes six months before your Divorce can be finalized.

The best way to look at it is six months is the soonest your Divorce can be finalize.

Now the six months that clock starts ticking at the date of service. So when you file your divorce case it doesn’t matter.

Once you serve your initial papers on your spouse that will starts the clock.

Moving forward, you can get all your paperwork done within that six months period.

If you like you can get it done as fast as 3 days after service and submit your entire Divorce case to the court.

But you don’t have to wait up to six months to submit your case. And a lot of people have that misconception.

They file for Divorce. They serve their Divorce. And then they’ll wait six months to turn everything in.

If you do that you’re going to delay your Divorce case by about two to three months because the courts have a delay when you submit that final paperwork to the court.

Then you’re going to wait an additional two to three months just because you’re so busy in reviewing those final documents. There’s going to be a delay.

So what we do if you use our service which we obviously encourage you to do is we will get your divorce case as soon as 30 days.

Submit it to the court as quickly as we can. And around two to three months mark we submit it to the court.

And that takes them that two to three months to complete and we’ll have your divorce case usually done before that six months even comes around.

And then the date of your Divorce will be a future date because we got your Divorce case done so quickly.

Okay, so, I just want to make sure you guys understand that you don’t have to wait up to six months.

We’ve seen that quite a bit. Call us. We love to help you with our Full Service Divorce process.

We’ll take care of everything, forms, filing with the court, working with both parties, helping you mediate the case and get through this your Divorce as complete as possible.

We have all the courts forms and software attorneys and the courts have. And we can definitely assist you with your Divorce in Chatsworth.

Please give us a call. Free phone consultation at 661-281-0266.

158: Santa Monica Divorce Process – Santa Monica Divorce

In this episode, we will talk about the divorce process in Santa Monica, California. Santa Monica divorce.

We’re talking about how to file Divorce papers, how to start your Divorce in Santa Monica.

We get a lot of calls from individual Court House locations because there’s a Court House in Santa Monica.

We filled a lot of calls, basically saying, ‘Tim, how do we start the Divorce process? I saw you online. We’re interested in using your service but how does Divorce works?’

So we’re trying to answer those questions for the people going through Divorce or considering filing for Divorce in Santa Monica.

So if we look at the bare, the grass roots of things how to file for Divorce, it’s a matter of filling out a couple of forms and getting a case number issued from the court.

Make sure to listen to the latest podcast.

Divorce Process At Chatsworth Divorce Court | Chatsworth Divorce

Divorce Process At Chatsworth Divorce Court | Chatsworth Divorce

The divorce process at the Chatsworth divorce court is pretty similar to that of the rest of Los Angeles County, but lets discuss the step by step process to file your divorce case in Chatsworth divorce Court.



The first thing you need to do to file your divorce at the Chatsworth Divorce court is to prepare your initial divorce forms so  they can be filed. Remember, you must file before you serve.  We continue to see this as a common problem among folks who try to file their own divorce case at the Chatsworth court.

Once you have filed your initial court documents with the Chatsworth Divorce Court, again you need to serve them. When I say you need to serve them, i mean you need to have them served.  This can be anyone other than yourself who is over 18 and not a party to the case.  There is a way to do this by personal service or mail service, but make sure you follow proper procedure for each of the different ways.  I have written previous articles on this and recorded several videos regarding this as well.

After you file and serve your case, you need to prepare your financial disclosures known as the schedule of assets and debts and income and expense declaration.  Then you need to file and serve these documents. Again, have them served.

Once you have completed these steps, you need to complete your judgment documents.  If you have navigated the first 2 steps without problems, this part will most likely give you trouble.

This is because there are so many documents to complete your Chatsworth divorce court judgment forms and even those forms can change depending on whether you have a default, default with agreement or uncontested divorce case in Chatsworth.

Of course, it is recommended you hire our full service divorce paralegal firm in Chatsworth to process your divorce case.

Affordable Chatsworth Divorce Paralegal Service | Chatsworth Divorce

Affordable Chatsworth Divorce Paralegal Service | Chatsworth Divorce

Our affordable Chatsworth divorce paralegal service takes care of your entire Chatsworth divorce from start to finish. If you are looking for a one-stop-shop for your Chatsworth divorce, look no further.



The affordable Chatsworth divorce service we provide is a full service one as well.  This means that we fill out the divorce forms for you, we filed your divorce documents with the court (yep, no court for you) we will take care of the service of the documents as well as prepare all your financial disclosures that are mandatory by the Chatsworth court and complete your final agreements, known as the Judgment or Marital Settlement Agreement.

We have all the forms and access to court software you will need to complete even the most complex Chatsworh divorce cases.  We will assist you with drafting agreements related to your property, child custody and support orders as well as spousal support orders.  We have the court’s dissomaster software as well, so you won’t have to go to court our pay an extra fee to have those number run.

So when you use our affordable Chatsworth divorce service, we will take care of everything.  The only thing we need from you is to provide us with the information we need to complete the forms.  We are here to answer your questions along the way, and believe me you will have plenty of questions.

There is just too much that can go wrong either trying to do your own Chatsworh divorce yourself or hiring someone that just does the forms and leaves the procedural aspects up to you.  The forms are difficult, but where people really struggle is with the process and procedure of moving through the courts archaic process.

Give us a call for a free phone consultation so we can discuss your specific circumstances.

 

Burbank Divorce | How To Divide Your Pension During Divorce In Burbank

Burbank Divorce | How To Divide Your Pension During Divorce In Burbank

If you are going through a divorce in Burbank and you have a pension that needs to be divided, you are going to need a Qualified Domestic Relations Order, otherwise known as a QDRO or DRO.

We do provide a pension division service and if you used our divorce service for your divorce, we most likely handled your pension division as well.

What kinds of pensions require a Qualified Domestic Relations Order of Domestic Relations Order?

It used to be that just city, state and county type pensions required a QDRO, but we are finding that just about any type of plan considered to be a retirement plan will most likely require a QDRO.  This applies to most 401k’s, 403b’s,

The best thing to do if you are going to get a divorce or are going through a divorce is to simply call your retirement plan up and let then know your are going through a divorce and ask if they will need a QDRO to divide the plan.

If they say “yes”, then ask for a QDRO Package.  They will likely have a package of information to send to you either via mail or email.  We will need this QDRO Package to prepare your paperwork.  If you have not contacted them, we can make that call of you and get the information we need to prepare the Qualified Domestic Relations Order.

The pension division process looks like this:

First we have to join the plan to the divorce case.  This means we have to file a Joinder which will pull your pension or 401k into the divorce case as a third party.  This lets the court and the pension company know that there is a divorce case.  The effect of the joinder is that is will freeze the pension from withdrawal.

Once we have filed the joinder and served it on the plan, we can work on the QDRO language.  Once we have it drafted, we send it to the plan for approval.  When approved, they will send back to us to obtain signatures, then it goes back to court to get filed.  Once the QDRO is filed it is served on the plan and they will divide the pension as indicated.

We are a full service divorce firm that serves the Burbank area as well as anywhere in California. If you need help with your divorce case or need someone to prepare your Qualified Domestic Relations Order, we can usually do that for about 1/3rd the cost of an attorney.

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