Divorce Paralegal Service In La Mirada California

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Divorce Paralegal Service In La Mirada California

Today we are talking to the folks in La Mirada California.

If you’re reading this article, you may be considering going through divorce you may have some question.

You probably spent some time in numerous websites trying to find perhaps a service or how this divorce work and things to that nature.

We understand this is probably your first time going through this.

You’re trying to find out all the information and what is going to take to get divorce. How does this divorce work, how long does it take. All of these 10 questions I get asked everyday at least 20 times a day from people calling in.

It’s your first time – you don’t understand the divorce process. And that’s what we are here to help you with.

So we are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We’re essentially a paralegal firm that specializes in divorce in California.

If you’re looking for information in how divorce works, and what the process, and what the procedures are, just make sure to give us a call.

It’s a good thing you’re looking online and looking for resources on how divorce works. It’s important to understand the process and procedure.

When you are ready give us a call, we’d be happy just to go over your case, explain to you in 10 or 15 minutes exactly what is going to take to get you through the divorce.

Now who are we? We are a licensed and bonded document preparation firm.

So we specialize in divorce and we essentially know the differences we’re not allowed to offer. We’re not attorneys.

We’re not here to give you legal advice or represent you in court. But we are a full service firm that from A to Z will take you from start to finish without any additional resources.

And in cases where you and your spouse are attempting to work through your divorce in a friendly manner or in an amicable manner, or at least you are trying to work together and at some point you’re trying to work together to get your case completed, we’re here to facilitate that process.

We fill in all the forms for you. We’ll explain the process and procedure. We go down the court. We file your documents.

We serve your document. We will explain the process and procedure as we go along. And we address everything with you. We’re talking about distribution of assets and debts.

And who’s going to get what?

Essentially we’re talking about children if you have kids in your divorce. We need to come up with a custody and visitation plan.

We also need to come up with some child support. We have courts software, everything the attorney’s have, all the software that the courts have, we have everything to help you to get through your divorce from start to finish.

And if there’s other left to address, from property and children, is spousal support that’s going to come up or not.

So please give us call. We’d be happy to talk to you. We are full service divorce paralegal firm. We are serving folks in La Mirada. We specialize in divorce in Los Angeles County.

You don’t need to come to our office if you don’t want to. We do a lot just right over the phone or by email.

But we are full service and I want to emphasize that as much as I can because you can go on with your life. We are here to answer your questions. We are here to do the paperwork and work for you.  And get you through your divorce for a low flat fee.

Please go to our website for more information or like I said feel free to give me a call we’d be happy to discuss your specific circumstances and see if you’re good fit for our service.

Talk to you soon.

Divorce Paralegal Service In Downey California

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Divorce Paralegal Service In Downey California

We are your full service Divorce Paralegal Firm serving Los Angeles County.

And this video is specifically for folks in Downey California who maybe considering going through divorce and are looking for some help and some resources to get through their divorce case or maybe some alternatives.

Something a little bit more affordable than hiring an attorney, and something a little bit simpler than trying to do your divorce in Downey on your own.

So we are a Full Service Divorce Paralegal Firm specializing only in divorce. And we serve all of Los Angeles California County.

Because we are a full service this means that we will fill out all the forms for you.

We will go to court and file your divorce paper for you. We will serve it. We will do all the processes and procedure the courts require. You know, dotting all the I’s and crossing all the T’s, making sure all the boxes are checked.

And then in addition to that we also will assist you with helping you with decisions on how you are going to divide up your assets and debts which is necessary in the divorce.

If you have children you’re going to have come up with the custody and visitation plan, and child support plan which we can also help you with.

We have all the court software that the courts have, and that attorney’s have. So that’s all part of the process when you use our services. And then if there’s going to be spousal support we can also help you come up with those numbers as well.

When you using a service like ours, our best clients are usually those that are going through what we call an Amicable Divorce.

So at least you know same with Friendly Divorce doesn’t mean you have to be friends. It just means that you guys are going to work together on this.

And not going to hire an attorney necessarily. You’re not going to court. But you’re going to try to work through your issues of your divorce in a friendly mediated type manner.

We handle hundreds of cases a year in California here. And we’ve really become the go-to folks for divorce in California and specifically Los Angeles County.

So regardless of where you live, we are handling cases all throughout Los Angeles County. This video is made specifically for those folks in Downey.

We do the service – all the courts in Los Angeles County and which includes Downey of course. And we’d be happy to help you with your divorce.

Give us a call we’d be happy to give you a free consultation.  And just talk about more the specific circumstances of your divorce.

And make sure you’re good fit for our service. For more information you can visit our website at divorce661.com. So go ahead and jump on over there and take a look.

We’ve written thousands of articles about divorce. A lots of video like this one, ore tutorial type videos and instructional videos.

We have a podcast as well where you can listen to on iTunes. So there are lots of resources where you can learn all about what is going to take to get through the process.

And then when you’re ready to talk give us call we’d be happy to discuss your specific circumstances.

This is Tim Blankenship divorce661.com. I look forward to helping you when you needed assistance with your divorce.

Divorce Paralegal Rosemead California Divorce

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Divorce Paralegal Rosemead California Divorce

Today we are taking to our clients in Rosemead California.

I want to let you know a little bit about our business and what we can do to help you. And how we can help you to save money and get through your divorce in Rosemead California fast, efficient, and smooth.

So we are a licensed document preparation firm specializing in divorce in California. So divorce is essentially all we do. I want to let you know a little bit about what we can do to help with your divorce.

As licensed divorce document preparation, we can work with you directly. We don’t have attorneys with our office.

We’re not a law firm, we’re not here to give you legal advice or represent you in court. We are here to help you with document preparation of your forms, filing them, going to court, serving them, and filing out financial disclosures for you.

We then complete the agreement which we’ll take care of everything as far as division of assets and debts.

Anything to do with your property, your children custody, visitation, spousal support, child support, literally everything is involved in what we do for you.

So just keep in mind – we are that lower cost alternative not many or should I say most divorce cases do not require an attorney. If you need legal advice or you are going to need representation in court that’s where you need an attorney.

But 90 % of divorce is simple – filling out paperwork, and following the court procedure, and processes properly.

So the court can then sign off on your judgment. Please give us your call. We’d be happy to help you with your divorce in Rosemead. We do specialize in California and divorce is all we do.

My name is Tim Blankenship. Please visit our website at divorce661.com or you can give us call.

We’d be happy to give you a free consultation.

Divorce In A Day In California

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Divorce In A Day In California

Today we are talking a little bit more about our divorce in a day program.

Ever since the courts in California started announcing this plan of trying to do divorce in a day which in my previous video I’ve said it’s pretty much a misnomer you can’t really get divorced in a day.

We have been getting some calls on it and people asking how this can be achieved.

So what we started doing is instead of the normal procedure and process of divorce in doing paperwork in a series of steps.

We got people coming to our office and say we like to just get these taken care of in one appointment. Can we do that?

And so that is we’ve all been doing and people seem to appreciate the fact that they can come in and about an hour to an hour and a half we can get through an entire divorce, we can get through all the paperwork, we can get through all the signatures and of course after everything is signed and the folks leave our office, we do have to go through the procedure of filing and serving and doing all that and have to wait the customary six months here in California.

But we are able to get them done with everything in one appointment. So you don’t have to come back through our office.

And this is usual if you guys have agreements to everything regarding custody visitation spousal support, child support if you have all these agreements in place. We can graph it right on the spot.

And this is particularly good if you have a very simple divorce perhaps no kids, no property, and it’s just a matter of undoing what you did, and living what you came into with and so on.

So we are doing this more and more it is fast, it’s easy, it’s painless about an hour and half we can have all the paper work done with your case and you’d be officially done with the paperwork.

However, you just have to complete the procedure and the processes with the court you still have to wait the six months and until it’s effective.

So, if you have a very simple divorce and you want to get this taken care of a single appointment we’d be happy to do that just let us know that that is your plan so we can allow for a lecture time for your appointment.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com helping you with your California divorce.

Feel free to call the number on your screen or visit our website for more information.

California Divorce Use Court Forms For Judgment Not Marital Settlement Agreement

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California Divorce Use Court Forms For Judgment Not Marital Settlement Agreement

Today we are talking about the easiest way of preparing your judgment.

And the reason I bring this up is because yesterday I had a client in my office that came in and they had this long written agreement it’s called the marital settlement agreement or settlement agreement.

And it was a long drawn out settlement agreement. And some of these you’ll find through other online services, they provide these 10 or 15 page legal documents and a lot of them are legally insufficient so we got away from using those.

And then we also have people who come in who have a written agreement were they basically took out a piece of paper and said, this is what I want to keep, this is our agreement, this is what the other parties are going to keep, and this is the agreement

And a lot of those are being rejected by the court because they need to have specific legal language in them.

You can’t just hand-write or type up an agreement, there has to be a specific language in those agreements. So what we’re doing is we’re getting away from doing those.

In fact we haven’t done them in years. Because the courts now have the court forums that you can use that already have all the legal language and all you need to do is check the check boxes that are applicable. So let me give you an example.

We are talking about the judgment, when you have a judgment you have to have the FL-180, you have the judgment form, and then you just have your attachments for the applicable fields that you have.

So for instance, if you look at the judgment on page 2 you’ll see that you have issues of child custody, child supports, spousal supports, and property.

All of those have specific order forms that you can attach to the judgment which have all the specific language already in them.

So let’s talk about if have children you attached the child custody and the child support order form, and then you just go to this forms and check the boxes that are applicable and you don’t have to worry about is the language correct because it already has the correct court language.

Again, with spousal support and with property all you have to do is check the boxes it indicates which property is community property, which property is separate property, and who’s getting what.

So this is how we do our judgment, we just use the court forms because it doesn’t leave room for chance where you’re going to make a mistake and not put the correct legal language in your documents.

So where the lady came in yesterday she had a fifteen page agreement, we turned that into five pages of just forms.

Did it in about ten minutes just checking the boxes and it was a done deal.

So there is definitely a streamline way of doing this.

Unfortunately the courts do not make this very apparent and if you are looking at forms online and software services online, they’re going to misdirect you and it’s going to end up more difficult than just hiring a service like ours from the very beginning and letting us take care of your divorce for you here in California.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com, I hope that was helpful. Please call me.

I’ll be happy to give you a free consultation and explain what we can do for you and we will be happy to help. Please go to our website on the screen here at divorce661.com for more information.

California Divorce The Court Orders Good Cause Appearing

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California Divorce The Court Orders Good Cause Appearing

Today we’ve been talking about a lot different areas where people have trouble with their divorce judgment here in California.

Again we are talking about the FL-180 and in this particular case we are talking about what you put where it says the court orders good cause appearing on the FL-180 so we are going to talk about that quickly.

First up, I want to let you know we are a full service divorce paralegal firm specializing in divorce in California.

So if you have been  working on your own and you may be because you are now watching this video and you are at the judgment phase which by the way is going to be the most difficult part of your divorce in California.

So give us call if you need assistance, we’d be happy to pick up where you left off and wrapped things up for you, again anywhere in California.

But on this specific area what do we mark, what do you put down where it says the court orders good cost appearing.

So what you are going to mark is the first box that says judgment of dissolution as entered marital or domestic partnership status is terminated and the parties are restored to the status of single person and then you are going to mark on a specific date.

Number one, that is what we always mark, that is what the court tells us to mark on a specific date. But then you don’t put that date in there you are going to leave that date blank.

And the court will fill in that date. But what we see is folks putting in a date and what their usually doing is the six months after the reserved date.

But does not necessarily going to be the date specially if you get your judgment submitted late, specially the courts here in Los Angeles County are backlogged their taking quite a while to get these reviewed.

So leave that blank at number four on the judgment form and you are just going to mark box A1 and the court will fill in the date.

I hope that was helpful in processing your judgment form, again a lot of folks have difficulty with that.

Tim Blankenship specializing in divorce in California and feel free to give us call.

We’d happy to help you with your divorce, 661-281-0266 or go to our website which is on your screen for more information.

California Divorce Spousal Support Stipulations To Show Income

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California Divorce Spousal Support Stipulations To Show Income

Today we are talking about stipulations, specifically stipulations for say child support or stipulations for spousal support.

Now first thing, let’s describe what a stipulation is during divorce, during the process or even after the divorce is concluded you and your spouse can enter into an agreement, this is also known as a stipulation.

Stipulations are usual if you needed some type of temporary order, maybe one spouse is moving out and they need evidence of income and they want to see some type of court order showing that you’re making some income.

Well, you can do that on a stipulations and then you can file with the court, get the judges’ signature and then that can be your evidence of income and that can be a good way to show income if you are trying to get an apartment or you are trying to move out and they are looking for evidence of income.

So regarding stipulations, if you need to have that done, it is something as simple as drawing up the agreements and there are some specific languages and some specific verbiage that needs to be in there for the court to sign up on it.

So if you need help with the stipulations, we can certainly put that together for you. It’s something we do quite a bit putting together either stipulations for spousal support or child support or combination of both.

021: How Much Does It Cost To Divorce In California (Podcast)

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In this episode, we talk about the varying costs of getting a divorce in California. The amount of money you will spend depends on several factors such as if your case is uncontested or if you will battle it out in court.

Will you use an attorney, mediation or legal document preparation. We answer these questions about the average cost of divorce in this episode.

And we’re going to talk about the difference between using an attorney, using a mediation service or using a legal document preparation service such ours.

We’re going to kind of hit the lowest of cost and the highest of cost in what you could kind of expect to help you make a decision on which way you want to go in getting assistance with your divorce.

California Divorce How To List Your Property Correctly On Judgment

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California Divorce How To List Your Property Correctly On Judgment

In this article we are going to talk more about how to list your property when addressing your property on your judgment of your divorce here in California.

So we have a lot of folks when people call us, so they will call us at the beginning and just they’ve decided right upfront they don’t want to use someone service.

They’re going to do it on their own. I think it’s simple and so forth. Some people call us in the middle of their case where they have filed and done some of the paperwork. And then they get stuck and then they call us to finish things up forth.

And then some people try to get through the entire case and get stuck at the judgment phase or get the judgment rejected multiple times. And in regards of where at your case we can certainly help you.

But in this video I want to talk to you about how to list certain property. And a lot of issues we’re seeing with clients who argues in our service they later come to us, “How do we list some of that property?”

So what we’re talking about is the judgment. And we’re talking about the property or order form when you’re completing your judgment and the property.

So a couple of things when you’re listing your property on the judgment you need to identify specifically so it doesn’t leave any doubt in the courts mind or the other parties mind what property you’re referring to.

So for instance, if you’re going to list a car on the judgment, you should list the year make, model and license plate. So 1999, Toyota Camry, license plate blah-blah. That’s how you should list it.

What we’re seeing with these people are just listing Honda Ford and that’s it. Well that’s not sufficient.  That will be rejected by the court because it doesn’t identify the property specifically.

But you can also use the VIN but that’s obviously a lot longer number. So you’ll just be fine by just using the license plate.

Now for other types of vehicle like boats, trailers, off road motorcycles, there’s always going to be some type of identifying number.

For boat there’s a whole number. For trailers they have a license plate. There are identifying numbers for off road motorcycles. So just use those numbers to identify it specifically.

The other thing is a home. If you have a home and you’re going to be–if you’re going to address that in your divorce which of course you will. You can’t just list the property address.

You need to get the legal description of the property. Now the easiest way is to simply pull out your deed. And go to the appendix that gives the legal description.

It’s essentially a short paragraph that it describes those legal description Lot 4 of Track 9 and so forth.

Bank accounts and credit cards. So when you’re listing these items, what you want to list is the name of the bank and just the last four digits of the account.

You don’t want to put the whole 16 digits account number of your credit card. You don’t want to put all the digits of your bank account because essentially these documents aren’t public record.

So you’re not going to want to have your account numbers out there one more way someone can access your personal information. So for instance, your credit card Bank of America, last four digits 1234.

That’s all you need to say, maybe Bank of America Visa, 1234. And if it’s a checking account then Bank of America Checking, 1234. That’s how you’d list that type of property.

So regardless of what it is just adequately describe it. So there’s no doubt in your mind, the other party’s mind or the courts mind with that property.

This is Tim Blankenship divorce661.com. We specialized in providing paralegal divorce services here in California. Make sure you give us a call.

I’d be happy to help you anywhere in California with your divorce at any stage with your divorce in California.  661-281-0266 free consultation just let me know you watched our video and I’ll be happy to take care of you.

Thank you for watching.

California Divorce Court Acquired Jurisdiction Of The Respondent

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California Divorce Court Acquired Jurisdiction Of The Respondent

Today, we are talking about the judgment form. This is the FL-180 and specifically we’re talking about in area where people are having trouble in determining what date is placed in this specific field.

This is at number three. It basically says, the court acquired jurisdiction of the respondent on what date.  So the court wants to know when did the jurisdiction in this case started.

People don’t understand in a lot times what the court is asking for, what is the court’s—what is this jurisdiction date they’re asking for?

Well it’s actually quite simple. What they want to know is what is the day that your spouse was served? Or if you were served what is the day that you were served the documents, the summons and petitions in your divorce?

That’s the date the court requires jurisdiction and that’s what starts the clock on the sixth month process, on the 3o day process if you’re filling a default style divorce but that’s the date you’re going to want to use.

So what date are we talking about specifically? When you file your divorce case you have to then in the next step you need to serve your spouse. Not you specifically, it has to be someone other than you over the age of 18, could be a family member, a friend, a process server, a sheriff, anything like that.

So that date that they are served if it’s by personal service is the day the court requires jurisdiction. And that’s the date you’re going to place on the form. And again, that’s also the date that starts the six months process.

But what if you don’t do personal service? What if you don’t specifically hand the document to the other party and so you don’t know specific dates.

What we’re talking about specifically is what’s called the notice and acknowledgement of receipts. A lot of our divorce cases we won’t personally serve them. We will just mail serve them the divorce documents that been filed.

And we used what’s called the notice of acknowledgement and receipt. If you mail those documents to the other party, again, it has to be someone else that has to mail them. They mailed the documents to the other party and they basically asked them to sign acknowledging receipt.

And so for this date of jurisdiction the day they signed that notice of acknowledgement of receipt will be the date of service. Not the day you mailed it, the day they signed it because they’re required to sign it acknowledging receipts and then mail it back to you.

When you get it back take a look at the date they signed it that will be the date of jurisdiction. The other thing I want to talk about is if you are serving your spouse and your spouse lives out of state.

If they lived out of state you can use the notice of acknowledgement of receipt. But you can also use the service by certified mail. This is where you will certify mail the documents to your spouse.

You need to do it with return receipt and they will sign having received the certified mail. Sometimes the post office will sign having those received it. But the day they received it and you get that card back, as soon as you turned it over, it’s going to say the date they were served.

You can use that date as a date of service. That can be your date of jurisdiction for your divorce. So personal service would be day they were served.

If you do it mail service it’s going to be the day they signed it. And if it’s by certified mail it’s going to be the day they received it.

So I hope that makes sense because when you submit your judgment, if you have the date wrong on this line item your divorce will be rejected. Your judgment will be rejected simply for having the wrong date in there.

Do you have any questions on that, feel free to give me a call 661-281-0266. We are a full service divorce firm.

And if you need assistance with your divorce, we’d be happy to take your case over. Or if you haven’t started I’ll be happy to get your divorce. I’ll start it and wrap it up for you.

Please give us a call. Looking forward to working with you. And thanks for watching.