Where Can I Get A Cheap Divorce In Los Angeles

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Okay, so I can only assume you searched for information of where you can get a cheap divorce in Los Angeles.  You have come to the right spot if you are looking for a cheap divorce in Los Angeles.

If you are looking for a cheap divorce in Los Angeles, then you are going to want to use a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm that specializes in divorce. Legal Document Assistants are essentially paralegals that are allowed to work directly with clients going through divorce without the supervision of an attorney.  The result is that you don’t have to pay expensive attorney fees when you work with a service like ours that specializes in divorce in Los Angeles.

Our cheap divorce service in Los Angeles is based upon a flat fee structure.  This way you know exactly how much your Los Angeles divorce is going to cost you.

Our prices are as cheap as $599.  This is for a full service divorce process.  So let’s talk about what you get here.

We take care of everything including:

  • Preparing your divorce forms
  • Filing your divorce forms with the court
  • Serving all divorce forms
  • Preparing a hybrid or default judgment
  • preparing final divorce judgment papers
  • Determination of child support
  • Determination of Spousal Support

If you are going to price shop for a cheap divorce in Los Angeles, make sure that you are getting and apples to apples comparison.  Some companies are not licensed and are operating illegally. Some companies are not going to file your documents for you or have hidden fees.  Some companies have you fill out a questionnaire.

The point I am trying to make is that you have to be careful when deciding who you are going to use to complete your Los Angeles Divorce.  You know what you get when something is cheap.

I know I titled this article “Where Can I Get A Cheap Divorce in Los Angeles” but only because there is a lot of people searching for this service with those terms.  Don’t be fooled.  We provide an excellent, full service divorce solution for a flat fee.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm that specializes in providing divorce services directly to the consumer in Los Angeles. Please give us a call for more information about or Los Angeles Divorce Service.

Much of what we do is right over the phone and you do not have to travel to our office if you chose not to.

Professional Divorce Service In Santa Clarita | SCV Divorce

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When people are looking for an affordable way to get divorced in Santa Clarita, many chose to use our professional divorce service.  We are the only licensed and bonded divorce document preparation firm in Santa Clarita.

What makes us a professional divorce service?  That is a good question.

First off, we have the experience it takes to get your divorce completed.  Our experience started in the self help centers in the Los Angeles Family Law courts many years ago.  Cutting our teeth learning the divorce process from the ground up while assisting people who could not afford an attorney.

The next thing we did is complete an internship with the family law department in the Los Angeles Superior Courts.  We worked at the Lancaster Branch, Central Branch and San Fernando Branch.  We sat with the family law clerks and learned from the judges as we sat and assisted the judicial assistants in the court room.  We still have our foot in the door with the Los Angeles Superior Court and still assist them to this day.

After working at the court, we worked for one of Santa Clarita’s largest family law firms for over 2 years.  We gained insights from the attorney perspective.  It was only after numerous year of experience with the divorce courts and family law attorneys, did we start our divorce document preparation service in Santa Clarita.

So that pretty much sums up our experience.  Since starting our professional divorce service, we have gained great strides and our business continues to expand.  We now prepare approximately 6-8 new divorce cases every week here from our little office.

Folks are beginning to realized that when it comes to getting a divorce in Santa Clarita and the surrounding Los Angeles area, that we are the place to go for professional divorce services.

One of the things we have done that has made us successful is that we decided early on that we would only do divorce cases. We are not the only licensed and bonded legal document preparation service in Los Angeles, but we are the only ones that specialize in only divorce cases.  This makes us the obvious choice when you decide to get divorced in Santa Clarita.

We are Santa Clarita’s only professional divorce service.  Please give us a call for more information.

California Divorce | Is It Okay To Live With Spouse During Divorce?

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If you are considering getting divorced in California, you may be wondering if it is okay to live with your spouse while your are going through the divorce process.

This really depends upon the reason you are asking.  First, it may be by pure necessity that you continue to live with your spouse during the divorce process.

We are a licensed divorce document preparation firm that specializes in affordable California divorces and many of our clients continue to live with their spouses for financial reasons.  They just don’t have the ability to live separately until they get the divorce finanlized.  These couples will generally just maintain the status quo until their California divorce is completed.

If you are asking this question from a legal sense, we are not really going to address this.  If you are asking the question this way, you are probably wondering if  by living with your spouse, it will void the date of separation for purposes of community and separate property.  We are not going to address the legality of it from that viewpoint.

What you should know is that you can live together and still be separated.  You do not have to be living in separate homes to be considered separated.  There are some states that requires that but in California there is no requirement that you actually move out into separate homes.  It could just be that one of you sleeps on the couch or in another bedroom.

Because we are  not a law firm, most of our clients are attempting to work through their divorce as amicable as possible.  Most of them still live together out of necessity and will are working towards a resolution on how they are going to make it financially when they actually separate and their divorce is concluded.

So the answer is yes, it is okay to live with your spouse when you are getting divorced.  I have even had some clients complete their divorce and still live together.  Probably not the ideal scene, but I think you get the point.

We are a licensed divorce document preparation firm that specialized in California divorce.  Please give us a call to learn more about our fixed fee divorce pricing.

Are You Frustrated By California Divorce Process

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If you are frustrated by the California Divorce process, you are not alone.  Tens of thousands of people attempt to complete their own divorce every year and most will fail.

They do not fail for lack of trying or intellect.  They fail because they do not have the time to commit fully to understanding the California divorce process.

Most have busy families and of course are working a full time job.  They just don’t have the time to commit to fully learning the process, thus do a half-ass job on the divorce paperwork.  These are legal forms that have to be done exactly.  Make one mistake and you not only have to redo the divorce form, but now have to re-file and re-serve.  A process that frustrates many.

Most of the people we have spoke to have admitted trying to complete their California divorce forms after they have come home form work, spent time with the family, made dinner and put the kids to bed.

It is now 11 pm, your exhausted and the last thing you need to do is try to sit down at your computer and attempt to fill out complex legal forms and read complex instructions on how to complete your divorce.  Trust me when I say we hear this all the time.

Instead of becoming frustrated by the process, why not instead use a professional divorce service that can take the stress away from you.  We are a full service California divorce document preparation firm.

This means that we will prepare all your divorce forms, file them with the court and prepare your final divorce agreement and judgment.

Our divorce service works off a flat fee basis, so you know what your costs are going to be right from the beginning.

Don’t get frustrated trying to prepare your California Divorce. Instead, give us a call and let the professionals handle your California Divorce for you.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in California divorce and are headquartered in Santa Clarita, CA.

Where Did You Get Stuck With Your California Divorce

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People get stuck attempting to complete their California divorce at different points.  This means that people are calling on us for help with their divorce at different stages and we thought we would share these different stages as to suggest you are not alone.

Some people realize right from the get-go that they don’t have the time or desire to attempt their California divorce on their own.  These folks seek out our affordable California divorce service right from the beginning.  These folks will save much time and heartache.

The next place you may decide to get professional divorce assistance is after you have attempted to file your initial set of papers.  What we find is that folks will attempt to fill out the summons and petition and then have it rejected by the court.  Or if they did fill out the forms, they don’t know how to property serve and file the proof of service. We get many calls for assistance at this stage.

Sadly, filing the initial divorce documents is, by far, the easiest part of the divorce case.  The next step is preparing your preliminary declaration of disclosure.  We have talked about he complexity of these specific divorce forms in other articles.  These need to be property prepared and a specific form filed with the court.  We find that these financial disclosures are particularly troublesome for folks.

The last part of your California divorce case is having to complete the judgment.  The judgment is comprised of between 15 and 25 forms, all which will detail the agreements between you and your spouse, including distribution of assets and debts, parenting plans, child support, spousal support and any other agreements you want wrapped up in the divorce judgment.

We have found that people who have attempted to complete their own divorce will have to call us at some point.  The final judgment is the most difficult part and many people face numerous judgment rejections from the court which draw out the case for several years.

We recommend that you call our Santa Clarita Divorce Service from the very beginning so we can professionally prepare your divorce documents.  But regardless of where you have got stuck with your California divorce, we can pick up where you got stuck.

How To File Divorce In California And Serve Spouse In Another State

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This article will discuss the issue of getting a divorce in California when your spouse lives in another state.  We will discuss how you can accomplish your divorce when you are living in different states or even different Countries.

First, let’s talk about jurisdiction.  Only one of you have to live in the State of California to file for divorce.  Just make sure you meet the criteria to file which means being a resident of the State of California for at least 6 months and of the County for the at least the last 3 months immediately preceding the filing of the Petition for divorce in California.

We have many clients who have been separated for a while and they are just getting around to filing for divorce in California.  Sometimes this results in one of the parties moving out of states.  Here is how we deal with this.

You will file your divorce case in the County you live in.  For instance, we are in Santa Clarita, which in in Los Angeles County.  Because we do not have branch court, all our filings go to the San Fernando Courthouse.

Once you have filed, the next step is to serve your spouse.  And you don’t have to hire a process server if your spouse will cooperate.  We use an not well known process called, “Notice of Acknowledgment of Receipt”.  This allows you to mail your initial filing documents to your spouse.  When they sign the acknowledgment and return it to you, file a proof of service.  This is an effective way to serve your spouse without having to hire a process server and is a perfectly acceptable way to serve these papers.

Once you have completed the service, the County in which you filed now has jurisdiction over your spouse and can make the final orders over your divorce case.

We get this question a lot and wanted to address it on our blog so hopefully folks with this same questions can find the answer here.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm that specializes in California divorce.  We provide a flat fee divorce service that takes care of your entire divorce from start to finish.

SCV Divorce Service Rapidly Expands

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We have been fortunate to say the least.  We opened our little Santa Clarita divorce service just over a year ago.  In that short year we have bootstrapped a small start up with literally nothing more than a desire to assist Santa Clarita families with affordable divorce options.

We believe we have found a niche service and one that was apparently desperately needed in Santa Clarita.  We did our due diligence and discovered that there was not an affordable divorce service in Santa Clarita.  We thought there was a market for our service and we were right.

We have seen rapid expansion and this week had to add additional office space and have added an office here in Santa Clarita.  We are still in the same building as we have found great success from using the Barrister Suites building off The Old Road north of Newhall Ranch Road.

We have gone from a single office with just one employee (me!) to now 6 employees and a second office.  I have moved myself out of the original office and find myself with a private office just as I did before we did not have any employees to speak of.

As we get our team in place, we are now geared up to help even more people with a better way of getting divorced.  One that will not leave you with high costs of using an attorney.

We plan on ramping up our marketing efforts now that we can handle a large load of clients.  Up until now, we have been careful to only take on the amount of clients we could successfully provide excellent customer service to.

If you find yourself needed to get divorce anywhere in Los Angeles County, we would be honored if you allowed us to assist you.  We have a great system in place to efficiently help you through your divorce and have the experience it takes to get the job done.

California Divorce Not Completed But I Remarried

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This blog post is a transcription of video where we discussed issues where people are attempting to complete their own California divorce.  They think they are divorced and re-marry, only to learn several years later, and after already re-marrying, that they are not divorced from their first spouse.  You can read the transcript or watch the video below.

Hi, this is Tim Blankenship with divorce 661.com and today we are talking about what to do  If you become remarried and then find out later that your divorce from your previous marriage was never completed. My name is Tim Blankenship I’m a licensed and bonded legal document preparation service and we specialize in California divorce and let’s get right into it.

So I have had several cases just this week alone, where I received a phone call and the party on the phone told me that they thought they completed their divorce many years ago and have remarried and have now discovered that there divorce was never finalized   So I wanted to address a couple of issues and why this is happening in and give you a way of how you can fix this and talk about a little bit of the Rules of Court in regards to you what you need to do and if you’re breaking the law and things like that.

So let’s first talk about these particular cases and you’ll probably find that you’re  having similar trouble.  On this first case, the gal called me. She  thought she had divorced over 10 years ago she went to get remarried and they did it just through are usually went to the county got remarried of it that they want to have a church ceremony.
The church  asked them for a copy of the divorce decree. So they sent a letter to the court and asked for a copy of their divorce judgment and received a letter saying we see you filed for divorce, but no judgment has been entered. So she was shocked to learn that her divorce was not finalized. She thought that she had done and taken all the steps and completed the divorce case and that she was legally remarried. So what were doing with her is we have to complete her divorce 10 years after the fact, even though she’s been legally married for for this period of time.

The next one is is pretty similar, except in this case, as this was where the party was trying to file a default got the default approved and thought the default meant that the that judgment was entered, and what this boils down to is when parties are representing themselves, and that was the case in both of these instances the these parties represent themselves. They did not have attorneys which is totally fine, except for the fact that when you’re you go a completely alone, without assistance from say a company like us. These are the issues and  you will have problems like this.

What you need to do is you should use a service like ours to begin with just to avoid these types of problems. But here’s what we had to do on and are doing currently in these particular cases. When we check the court website and we sent our courrier down to get copies of what it been done. We realize that very little of the case in both of these instances have been done.  All they had done was filed the initial petition, served the petition on the other party and that was literally it that’s all they did so, how they thought that they were divorced is beyond me because there was no judgment entered.

We see these types of problems all the time. So here’s we’ll actually be doing. We have to basically picked up where they left off and complete the process. Fortunately, in both these cases the other party didn’t file a response. The reason that’s important is because if these parties had if the other party filed a response in either of these cases, we would have to track them down as they would have to be involved in the case because they filed a response.

One of these cases was 18 years ago I was interested to look at the paperwork  and it looked like at the court forms look like that long ago.  This one was 18 years ago – she thought she had been divorce. They had a child together. The child turned 18. They thought the divorce was finalized and it wasn’t so we have to go back and again a response is not filed so we were able to pick up where they left off and do a default case.

And the good news is we don’t have to track down the spouses because of course this much time gone by this they have no idea where the other party lives. So let’s talk about pre-existing marriages. So you’ve gotten remarried. Apparently this is something that’s fairly common where folks think they are divorced but are not.

So the question becomes am I legally married. That’s a good question. I looked up and a little research there is a something called prior existing marriage. So for instance this though the lady in my office yesterday. She says number one, Am I still legally married?  And number two, you know, this does not mean my husband is not my husband. My current husband?

So I told her she’s probably currently married, but I told her, and somewhat jokingly, that, but her husband knew her current husband has a way of divorcing her, because there is a pre-existing marriage as looking it up on the on the divorce forms in California. When you file for divorce. One of the options to choose is to say I want to nullify the marriage the voidable marriage because of a pre-existing marriage that you were not aware of.

So if your husband was not aware you were  previously married and you now find out you have cause for divorce if that’s if you’re looking for a way out, exposed, but that both the spouses and have been you there get shaped we said this jokingly, of course, to get to the process for them wrap things up and finish the case of this is the reason I want to get this video out here and do this right, this blog post on this issue is because obviously there’s a lot of this going around.

The court procedures are very confusing, people don’t know what forms to do with and they think their divorced and are not they’re getting remarried there having children with their new husbands and this can run into all kinds of other problems with that as to whose child is. Is the child presumed to be the new husbands or the previous husbands child.

So it brings up a couple of this interesting topics, but really what I want to get out there is you really need to get assistance with your divorce from the get-go. You need to have either an attorney or if you are looking for a more cost effective approach. You can use a service like ours.  We are a legal document preparation service. We only specialize in divorce in California. We handle divorce cases all across California.

So we recommend you use our service from the beginning. If you have we watching this video, but if you find yourself in this particular situation. I just know we can help you give us a call. We need to track down your case number, see where left off and let you know the steps we need to take to finish the divorce case for you.

My name is Tim Blankenship divorce661.com is our website. Please call me if you need assistance with their divorce number 661-281-0266, and as always, thanks for watching.

We Assist With Paternity Request For Orders & Responses | Santa Clarita Divorce

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Lately we had been doing a lot of motions for divorce in California , so I thought I would share with you the different types of divorce motions we have been helping people with.

When were talking about divorce motions were talking about what is known as request for orders. They used to be called order to show cause.

You can file a motion for a variety of reasons, and these motions can be either temporary or permanent, depending on when you file the motion.

For instance, if your divorce case is still pending and you file a request for order the orders he received from the court are generally going to be temporary until final judgment is entered in your case. If you divorce is already been finalized and you need to file a motion post-judgment, these orders will generally be permanent until further order of the court .

In the past few weeks, we have completed several motions for clients.

The first one a lot talk about was a paternity case. A paternity case is one where a couple has a child, but they are not technically married. In this particular case, the father had not seen the child for several years. Out of the blue the father decides he wants to see his son hires an attorney and files a motion for child custody and visitation.

The mother called our office and asked us what she could do as she did not want the father, who had not seen the sun for several years, get the requested orders he was asking for.

We had her come in and reviewed the motion he had filed with the court. After reviewing the fathers declaration. We spoke to our client and asked her regarding the truthfulness of fathers claims. We then drafted a declaration in support of mothers request to deny father’s request for child custody and visitation.

Basically what you have to do when filing a response to motion is to go line by line and address the other party’s claims and state your version of the facts. And that is what we did in this case. We went line by line and addressed the issues. The father had claimed and then inserted the facts as mother presented them.

Once we’re done drafting the declaration. We may have served a copy to the father’s attorney and filed a motion with the court.

When the mother went to the hearing, she was able to successfully have the father’s request for child custody and visitation denied based on a variety of reasons that we had discussed in her responsive declaration.

Obviously, this client was very satisfied with our service in preparing her responsive declaration for a paternity case. Of course we can never promise any particular result when we help you prepare a motion or response to a motion in your paternity or divorce case.

This is just one of the cases that we assisted on this week we are currently working on three more motions or responses for our clients.

If you need to file a motion for child custody, child visitation, spousal support, child support or make any other requests you doing your divorce, while it is still pending, or after your divorce is concluded, we can help you.

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce in the Santa Clarita Valley. We serve all the Los Angeles courts and can assist you with your divorce case.

Please feel free to give us a call at 661-281-0266 so we can discuss the issues at hand so we can determine if we can help you through your divorce matter.

5 Helpful Divorce Tips When Representing Self | Santa Clarita Divorce

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We have been getting a lot of exposure on our Santa Clarita Divorce Google+ Business Page and thought we would provide folks looking for divorce assistance with some helpful tips on a variety of issues people face when representing themselves.

We are always looking for ways to get information regarding divorce out, and we learned that we can redistribute our content from our blog to Google Plus and then link that content back to our blog.

When Does The Divorce Process Start?

Have you heard of the 6 month waiting period when going through divorce.  This is one of them most misunderstood issues of divorce.  In this video we discuss what you have to do to get the clock ticking on the 6 month waiting period and tell you when the divorce process actually starts.

What Divorce Documents Should You File First?

When people are going to get divorced, they often think they have to have everything figured out before they ever file the first divorce forms.  This is simply not true.  Divorce is a process and has several steps.  The fist step is to file your initial divorce papers so a case number can be issues and your case opened with the courts.  In this podcast we discuss exactly which forms you need to file to start your California divorce case.

How Spousal Support Works

If you think your spouse is going to want spousal support, you will want to watch this video.  We discuss how spousal support is determined and discuss the court’s spousal support calculator known as a Dissomaster Report.  Watch this video where we discuss how California spousal support is determined.

How To Apply For A Fee Waiver For Your Divorce

If you cannot afford the whopping $435 filing fees for divorce, there may be a way to get your court fees waived.  So far, we have a 100% approval rate for getting our clients court fees waived.  There are some specific income requirements you have to meet, otherwise you have to prove to the court that you cannot afford your court fees and still pay for the necessities of life.  In this video we show you how to prepare the divorce fee waiver.

Why You Should Not Attempt To Complete Your Own Divorce

The divorce process is long and complicated.  While technically you are allowed to complete your own divorce, many have tried and many have failed.  In this podcast, we discuss the issues you will be faced with and common problems of trying to file your own divorce case in California.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation service in Santa Clarita that specializes in divorce in California.  For a free phone consultation, please call us at 661-281-0266.