Divorce Paralegal Service In Alhambra CA

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Divorce Paralegal Service In Alhambra CA

We’re talking to the folks in Alhambra California today. We just want to make you aware of our divorce paralegal service and tell you a little bit about our company and let you know how we can help you get through your divorce affordably, quickly and as painless as possible.

We are what is called a legal document assistant. We’re able to work directly with the public without attorney supervision. You probably know us as a divorce paralegal service in most cases.

I want to let you know a little bit of what we do and how we can help you.

Essentially, we are a full service divorce firm. We work exactly like a law firm would in preparing your divorce case, all the paperwork is the same, all the processes and procedures are the same. The only difference is we won’t give you legal advice and we won’t represent you in court.

So, the idea here is that you’re trying to get through your divorce as amicably as possible. You’re trying to work with your spouse in coming to an agreement or perhaps you have uncontested case where there’s not a whole lot property and things at that nature.

Now, we can help you regardless if you have no property, no kids. We can help you if you have tons of property, assets, debts, pensions, you name it. Children, if you need spousal support orders, child support orders we do all of that.

We can certainly help you. We have a pretty wide spectrum of what we can do. Now, we are full service. So we will fill out all the forms for you, we go down the court for you, we file them with the court, we get your case number issued, we will serve them on your spouse and we do work with both spouses.

We are a neutral third party. We’re not a law firm. We’re not here to represent either side. We’re just here to help you to push the paperwork through. Explain the process and get everything done for you so you can kind of go on with your life.

In completing your case, we will help you prepare all your financial disclosures and do all the declarations and disclose all your assets and debts as is mandatory by the court.

In addition, we will help you prepare your final judgment or agreement which basically lays out what all the agreements are. This includes the distribution of property, who’s getting what asset, who’s getting what debt, what the parenting plan is going to be if there are children. If there’s going to be spousal support or child support and things of that nature.

We have all the courts software. We have everything the courts have, everything the attorneys have to help you get through the process. And what you’ll find is that statistically 90% of folks going through divorce in California never need an attorney. They just need an expert document preparation service such as us to help them get through the procedures.

And not to mention, we’re always here for phone calls and assistance in letting you know what the next steps are, what happens if you have questions. We’re a valuable resource for information throughout the process as well as doing all the document preparation and completing your case for you.

Please give us a call, we’d be happy to help you through your divorce. Currently, our main office is in Santa Clarita, California. We do not need you to come to our office in order to do this. We are working with clients all throughout California as people are learning about our company.

And because we specialize only in divorce in California, we’re getting calls from everywhere in California. So we can definitely help you in your town and file in your court and do everything we would be. Of course you have the option of coming in to or office if you choose to. We have facilities in Santa Clarita and offices, we’d be happy to have you come by.

My name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. Feel free to give me a call, I’d be happy to give you a free consultation over the phone and kind of let you know what we can do for you and talk about your specific circumstances. Look forward to talking to you.

Are You Waiting To File Your California Divorce

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Are You Waiting To File Your California Divorce

We’re nearing the end of December, we’re on December 20th. We’re just wrapping up the year here and I just want to talk to you a little bit about the fact that if you are waiting to file for divorce because many people do that’s why I’m bringing this up.

Seems that every year, right around thanksgiving people start to put off those things that they need to do such as getting a divorce and rightfully so I imagine during the holidays what people tell me is they want to wait until the holidays are over or they don’t want to mess up the holidays or upset the family any more than going through divorce is going to do.

But I would say that this year, being our third year in business has been one of our busiest parts of the year. I don’t know if it’s because our marketing is really grabbed the hold, we do get lots of referrals and so forth.

But our business continued to move right along, we did very well the fourth quarter of the year which is not traditional in this line of work or in legal services for that matter as relates to divorce.

I’m on the Los Angeles County Bar Association website where we, the attorneys and other people in the industry are commenting on the divorce process and their business and they have questions and things of that nature and all we’ve seen consistently, over the last couple of weeks and months are attorneys complaining about how slow it is.

And I find that very interesting because we had exactly the opposite happen this fourth quarter. We have had one of the more busy seasons which is good news for us and I think it goes to say that if people that are going through the divorce process don’t necessarily need an attorney and I think we’re really starting to get a lot of that business away from attorneys.

Because if they’re happen to be extremely slow during holidays and we are extremely busy, it just goes to show that if you are looking to get divorced there are other alternatives such as our firm to help you get through your divorce in California.

I just wanted to share that with you, if you have any questions please give me a call. We’d love to help you out. Keep in mind that there is what’s called a divorce season. It starts in January, all those folks that have held off beginning the fourth quarter after thanksgiving. All those people are going to be piling in January.

So, if you are one of those people that are waiting until January to file, just keep in mind, not only will you see delays with the courts but the people that you go to, to help you with your divorce are also will be extremely busy.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. We look forward to helping you with your divorce in California.

Paralegal Divorce Service In North Hollywood CA

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Paralegal Divorce Service In North Hollywood CA

Today were talking to our friends in North Hollywood, to let you know that we are a company that can help you with your divorce and I just want to tell you a little bit about what we can do for you.

We are a full service. That means that we will go to court for you, we will file your forms, we’ll fill them out, we will serve them, we will do all the financial disclosures so you don’t have to worry about the steps and the procedures and the processes of the court. We’ll take care of all that for you.

We’ll even complete your final agreement or judgment, we’ll take care of preparing your agreements as far as custody, visitation, parenting plans, spousal support, child support, distribution of assets and debts, we’ll get that file with the court and get your case completed for you.

We are full service so we do all of that for you. You’re not going to have to fill out questionnaires, you’re not going to have to worry about the processes, you’re not going to have to worry about what’s next and probably aside from that, the number one reason to use our company is that we have tons of experience in the area of divorce.

I think, we have just about every answer answered on YouTube. We’ve had over several. I’d say 300 or 400 videos at the moment and growing. We shoot videos everyday information about divorce so you can definitely go to our YouTube channel for more information.

And all of that information is available on our website at divorce661.com. If you’re looking for a cost effective way to get through your divorce in California, we can certainly help you. Just give us a call, we’d be happy to give you a free consultation over the phone and let you know what we can do for you.

We have lots of reviews on our website so just make sure to take a look.

Divorce661.com, this is Tim Blankenship. Call us at 661-281-0266, we’d be happy to let you know what we can do for you and help you get through your divorce. Talk to you soon.

Paralegal Divorce Service In Glendale CA

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Paralegal Divorce Service In Glendale CA

Today we’re talking to our friends in Glendale, California.

I just want you to know that we are a licensed divorce document preparation firm and all we do is divorce. We basically are a paralegal firm on steroids if you will.

We can do just about anything an attorney can do except for give you legal advice and represent you in court. We handle mostly amicable cases, uncontested cases, where parties are attempting to work through their divorce on their own to a certain degree to get through their case without having to hire an attorney and having a high cost of doing that.

As far as what we’ll do for you, we are full service which means we’re going to fill out all your documents, we’re actually going to go down the court for you and file them, we will serve them.

We’ll do the necessary financial disclosures and we’ll prepare your final agreement or judgment which takes care of the distribution of assets and debts, a parenting plan, custody, visitation, child support, spousal support, everything that’s involved in the divorce we can take care of.

We have years of experience in doing this. We’ve worked for the courts, superior courts. We’ve worked for family law firm for several years and of course now have this business where we are able to save folks money.

We do work off a fix fee pricing so you won’t get any hourly rates from us. You can go to our website at divorce661.com and we have there placed right in the front page our fix fee pricing which includes everything but the court filing fee.

It includes postage, us writing down the court for you. Photocopies, staples, everything. So it’s a lot different than if you’ve worked with attorneys, you understand how that works.

They charge you for every second of their time and that’s not the case with us, regardless if it takes us a month or six months to complete your case it’s a flat fee pricing and we have that right there on our website.

So, if you need help with your divorce please give us a call. We have become the go-to-folks in California because that’s all we do. People are recognizing it as a specialty. We really have this down path. We work all throughout California but we just happen to be located here in Los Angeles County.

Give me a call, I’d be happy to give you a free consultation. The number is 661-281-0266. Or go to divorce661.com for more information. We’ll talk to you soon.

Paralegal Divorce Service In Chatsworth CA

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Paralegal Divorce Service In Chatsworth CA

Today we are talking to our friends in Chatsworth. I just want to let you know that we are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We specialize in divorce, that’s all we do in California.

In fact, we do California cases all throughout California but this specifically for those of you in Chatsworth.

As a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm, we are able to do essentially everything an attorney can do aside from giving you legal advice and representing you in court.

Essentially, we’re a paralegal firm on steroids if you will. We can get you through your entire divorce case from start to finish. We have low flat fees to do that and as far as our background is concerned, I’ve worked for the courts for several years.

I worked for family law attorney for several years and now I’ve ran this business for several years preparing divorce cases for folks in California.

We have become the go-to-firm if you will in California. Started off just as a, and we still are just a mom-and-pop if you will, we have a couple of employees but we probably do 300 to 400  divorce cases every year and that is growing every year of course.

And we’ve kind of become the go-to-folks for divorce in California because we specialize in divorce and that’s all we do. There are other folks out there that have a similar business but they do all types of things like bankruptcy and things of that sort.

But we’ve decided to specialize and because of doing that we’ve become the go-to-folks.

Now, we have local offices, we are growing throughout California. You can give us a call at 661-281-0266, I’d be happy to give you a consultation for free over the phone and make sure that you are a right fit for the company. You don’t happen to be near a local office, that’s fine.

We do have cases all throughout California, we have a seamless operation where we can serve you online, over the phone and do all your documents anywhere. We do work with all the courts throughout California.

And as far as what we do, we are full service so we will prepare all your forms, we will go to court for you, we will file them, we will serve them, we will do all the court procedures and processes and complete your final judgment which include everything, including assets and debts, custody, parenting plan, visitation, child support, spousal support, all wrapped in together and we will get that done for you.

So, please give us a call at 661-281-0266, please go to our website at divorce661.com for more information about our company, about our services and pricing and so forth.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

Paralegal Divorce Service In Burbank CA

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Paralegal Divorce Service In Burbank CA

Today we’re talking to our friends in Burbank, we wanted to let you know that we’re here as a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm here to help you with your divorce.

We specialize in California divorce and we can help you through your divorce process from A to Z.

I want to tell you a little about who we are and what we can do for you. We’re full service company, number one. So what that means is we fill out all the documents for you, we’d go down the court for you.

We will file your documents, we will serve your documents, we will prepare all your financial disclosures, we will help you complete all the steps as far as processes and procedures that the courts require.

You won’t have to worry about how to fill out your forms or what comes next or what do I do now. That’s what you’re paying us for. And it includes us preparing your final judgment or agreement.

Essentially all the distribution of assets and debts will be included. Your parenting plan, custody, visitation, child support, spousal support, all wrapped into the final agreement that’s all handled in the divorce.

And we will do all of that for you as a full service company so you can go on with your busy life and not have to worry about trying to fill out the forms and so forth.

We do have fix fee pricing, you can go to our website at divorce661.com and you can see our pricing on there and that includes everything. That includes us filling out the forms, going down to court, filing your forms, preparing everything, postage, paperclips, that includes everything.

The only thing it doesn’t include is the court filing fee. That’s an addition to our cost.

But please give me a call, I’d be happy to give you a consultation over the phone, the number is 661-281-0266.

And we are a growing document preparation firm in California. We’ve become the go-to-firm for divorce in California. We just happen to be located here in Los Angeles County so make sure to give us a call so we can help you with your divorce.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

Names Must Match On Summons And Petition California Divorce

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Names Must Match On Summons And Petition California Divorce

Today what we’re talking about specifically is something that is very important. You need to watch out for when filling out your summons and petition.

This boils down to this. The name you use for the petitioner or the respondent on your summons and petition specifically in all forms in your divorce need to be the same.

We’re getting a lot of clients who are coming to us who tried to start their own divorce and what they’re doing is they’re filing out the summons and petition but the names are not matching, meaning they are making a slight change.

Maybe it’s middle initial. Maybe it is using a full first name instead of short name like Thomas versus Tom.

And the problem with that and this will be the biggest error that you can make because when you file you divorce papers, your summons and petition these are the first documents you file.

Nobody is reviewing these, no one is going to verify and make sure you did this right.

So the problem with this is if you started with John Smith as a respondent and Jane Smith on the summon. You’re going to want these exact same names on the summons as you do the petition.

What we are finding is that clients are coming to use because they are trying to do their own case and they are getting their cases rejected because the names on the summons and petition don’t match.

And the first time that this will be an issue when you’ll find out is not when you filed this. So, I’ll give you an example.

Let’s say you as petitioner are actually Jane T. Smith and you put Jane T. Smith on the petitioner but on the summons you have Jane Smith.

When you go to file either your judgment or your request to enter default, this is the first time that the clerk will actually look at your forms.

If they notice and they will that you have Jane Smith on the summons yet on the petition you have Jane T. Smith, they’re going to say these are not the same two people, the names of the petitioner do not match on the name on the summons and the petition.

Now, here’s what is going to have happen. No matter where you are at in your case, if you just did this and then you noticed it.

Because the court is not going to tell you if you file your request to enter default or you filed your judgement.

When your case gets rejected and it will for this reason alone, you’re going to have to do the following.

You’re going to have to re-file your summons and petition, you’re going to have to mark the amended box and you’re going to have to correct the name, and you’re going to have to re-file it, and then guess what?

You’re going to have to re-serve it.

So, if it’s by mail or by personal service, it has to be re-served and guess what? Remember that thirty days that had to go by before you can submit your request to enter default or your judgment?

That’s right, you have to wait another thirty days thus giving the other party another chance to respond to the case.

If you’re kind of one of those cases where you’re hoping they don’t respond that you just want to put this through on your own and do a default case, you’re giving the respondent another chance to respond because you have to wait another thirty days after filing the amended summons and petitions and then serving it on them and waiting for thirty days.

So keep that in mind, what we recommend is the best practice is whatever name you have in the initial documents would be the same with your judgment or request to enter default and on all forms moving forward on your divorce.

This is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. We can help you with your divorce anywhere in California.

Make sure to give us a call, we can help you from the very beginning or pick up where you left off or having trouble with your case. We’ll talk to you soon!

Divorce Paralegal Service In Hollywood Hills California

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Divorce Paralegal Service In Hollywood Hills California

Today we are talking to our friends in Hollywood Hills and I just wanted to let you know about our divorce service that we have for you.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm and divorce is all we do. We specialize in divorce, we’ve done that for several years now and we do this all throughout California but this is specifically for you.

People are looking for an affordable way to get through the divorce process. These folks mostly are going through amicable divorce cases.

They’re trying to get through their divorce without hiring an attorney, without spending tons of money on their divorce.

If that sounds like you, then you need to give us a call. We’ve been doing this for several years as I’ve mentioned and we’re able to get you through the entire divorce process for one low flat fee.

You can go to divorce661.com for more information on our pricing.

Now, here’s a brief overview of what we will do for you.

As a licensed document preparer we can do everything and attorney can do except to go court for you and give you legal advice.

So we will prepare all the documents for you, we will take them down to court and file them for you, serve them, we do all the financial disclosures and all the processes and procedures that are required by the court.

We’ll even prepare your final judgment which includes the distribution of assets and debts, basically who’s getting what stuff, custody and visitation, a parenting plan and spousal support and child support determination if that’s what you’re looking for.

Again, we do that all for a low flat fee. We’ve been doing this for several years and we really have become your go-to-people for divorce in California.

Now, what you will get when you use our service is a full service process, so you won’t have to worry about what forms to fill out, how to file it, what the steps are, what to do next, we take care of all that for you.

And that’s really one of the benefits, you can go on with your life if you’re a busy professional, not spend time on the weekends and evenings trying to figure out what forms to fill out and get frustrated by the process.

We have years of experience, working for the courts.

We worked for the courts for several years, we worked for family law firms for several years and we’ve been having running this business for several years and we have a lot of knowledge from all of these different avenues, from the courts, from the law firm and from assisting people representing themselves.

We’ve seen lots and lots of different scenarios and can help you get through your divorce in most cases. So make sure to call, I’d be happy to give you a free phone consultation. My number is 661-281-0266 or you can go to divorce661.com for more information.

California Divorce Summons Standard Family Law Restraining Orders

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California Divorce Summons Standard Family Law Restraining Orders

Today we’re talking a little bit more about the FL-110 the summons.

In the previous video we just recorded, we mentioned that it did change for January 2014. And I want to talk a little bit more about standard family law restraining orders which if you have copies of the summons it’s on page two.

I want to talk about some of these restraining orders that are going to affect what they kind of mean. So what it says is “starting immediately, you and your spouse or domestic partner are restrain form”, one, removing the minor children of the parties from the state. And then it goes on with a little more detail.

Number two, cashing, borrowing against, cancelling, transferring, disposing of or changing of beneficiaries of any insurance and then it talks about the different insurance policies. Transferring, encumbering, hypothecating, or any other way disposing of property, real or personal whether community or separate and then it goes on.

You can read this one through four. So, essentially they don’t want you to grab the kids and take them out of state. They don’t want you to cash or cancel or transfer as far as your insurance is.

So, basically you’re supposed to live on your spouse as a beneficiary until the divorce is concluded. As far as the community property and separate property issues is basically just don’t do any of these thing, don’t close accounts, transfer money, etc.

But then it says without the written consent of the other party or an order of the court.

What I tell people is aside from all these restraining orders, you can do all of these things if you are in agreement with your spouse, that’s really what it boils down to.

It doesn’t mean you can’t start dividing up your property while you’re going through the process of divorce.

If you have an agreement, hey we’re going to split this account, we’re going to start selling the cars and transferring titles, and doing those things. You’re totally welcome to do that as long as it’s by agreement.

These restraining orders are put in place to protect one of the parties, if someone whose going to do something in a mean way to try and remove the kids or take them off the beneficiaries or take all the money out of the account so there’s no access to money by the other party.

So, that’s kind of the spirit of the law of why these rules for the summons you want to do by the most part with agreement, you can do in dividing your assets and debts throughout the divorce process.

I just want to clarify that some people when they come in they say “Tim, we want to start dividing I per stuff”, it’s totally amicable and this says we can’t do it.

If it’s by agreement, it’s acceptable to do because this is just between you and your spouse, if this is going to remain outside of the court so, no reason you can’t start getting those things separated prior to the divorce being finalized.

Tim Blankenship of divorce661.com, if you need help with your divorce in California please give me a call at 661-281-0266 or go to divorce661.com for more information.

Los Angeles Divorce Fee Waiver Hours Of Acceptance

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Los Angeles Divorce Fee Waiver Hours Of Acceptance

Today we are just giving you a little update about the fee waiver process with the superior courts and this is specifically regarding the Los Angeles County Courts.

We recently send a client down to the San Fernando branch of the Los Angeles Superior Court for divorce filing with a fee waiver and the clerk gave them a little note and it says: “Fee waivers are now only accepted between 8:30 AM and 11:00 AM or 1:30 PM and 3:00 PM Monday through Friday and of course aside from court holidays.”

So, Monday through Friday 8:30 AM to 11:00AM or 1:30 PM and 3:00 PM. I’m assuming the reason for this change is for the courts lunch break, that being the judge’s lunch break and the judge’s assistant known as the JA.

What happens when you go to file a fee waiver, usually it can be done with the clerk, the filing clerk at the window.

But sometimes they only have a certain abilities in approving fee waivers. Sometimes they need to send you to the actual court room to speak to the clerk in the court room, I think they have a little bit more power to overwrite things or maybe to get a judge to take a look at it if they have questions.

So, sometimes you’ll end up having to go up to the court room to the judge’s assistant, the clerk in the court room for them to make approval of the fee waiver.

They must have had a lot of folks coming in that were questionable fee waivers or kind of right on the bubble where the clerk on the counter couldn’t approve it and need to send people up to the court room so you wanted to make people know when you’re going to file a fee waiver in Los Angeles superior court.

8:30 AM to 11:00AM and 1:30 PM to 3:00PM so not a whole lot of time in there to get a fee waivers done. Just make sure if you are going to go, that you go during those times.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com, we specialize in California divorce. Give us a call at 661-281-0266 if you need any help.