How To Complete California Divorce Income Withholding For Support FL-195

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How To Complete California Divorce Income Withholding For Support FL-195

Today we’re talking about how to fill out Income Withholding Order or Income Withholding for Support Order. This is form FL-195.

And I want to first want talk about a couple of reasons that you will want to use this and also down below in this article I’ve included a slide share with a template showing you exactly how to fill this out.

The reason I did this is if you are going to use an income withholding order, I haven’t found any other resource online that will help people fill this out. There’s some specific information to this three page form. There’s specific information that you need to fill out in the boxes.

And even if you read the instruction sheet, which there is one, it doesn’t tell you what needs to go in some of the boxes. It’s not very specific at all.

So, I want to do this little self-help video with a slide share, if you are preparing your own divorce or if you do need to submit an income withholding order, you can find this video and get some help in doing that.

Some reasons you’ll want to use an income withholding order, if you have an order for support, that could be child support or spousal support, you can use this income withholding order to submit to the employer of the person who is paying support so the support can be directly taken out of that party’s pay before they are paid.

So, you’ll get a check directly from the employer on the pay days. And this obviously has some benefits. You don’t have to worry about the other party writing your check or if there is a concern that the other party is not going to pay, it would be a good idea to do this.

Again, you can do this if you have a motion that you’ve recently filed for support and you want to get that on the income withholding order, you can do it then or you can do it as part of your divorce.

If there’s spousal support or child support ordered in your divorce, you can submit an income withholding order at that time.

For the purposes of this article, I want to go a little bit into the specifics on how you’re going to do this.

As far as filling out the form, you can look down below on this article or related article, if you’re watching this video on YouTube, go to my website divorce661.com and I’ll put the exact link, it will take you right to the page with this information.

But there are some specific things you want to do as far as filing it. Once you’ve prepared it and then taken down the information and put it on the form, you need to file it with the court.

You’re going to either take them down to court or mail them to court and you’re going to first ask for the judge to sign and make it an official order.

Once the judge signs it, then you need to serve it on the employer and if it’s a large corporation you’re going to want to find out where their payroll or administration office is and serve it there.

Now, when I say serve it, you’re going to do it by certified mail. You want to ensure that it’s received by the employer because they have a certain amount of days, I don’t have that in front of me now.

I’ll put it in the related article but they have a certain amount of days by when they have to actually start removing the support from the other party’s pay.

Take a look at the article, go ahead and look at the slid share for information on how to fill out the income withholding order.

Again, you need to first prepare it, get the judge to sign it, make it an official order and then serve it by certified mail on the employer and we’re going to do another video that talks about how to remove an income withholding order if you have one because you had a change in support or if you’re terminating support for perhaps the spousal support ending or child support order terminating.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

Please feel free to give me a call if you need help with your divorce. 661-281-0266.

We do help with divorce cases all throughout California.

California Divorce Judgment Checklist & Instructions

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California Divorce Judgment Checklist & Instructions

Today we’re talking about the judgment checklist for dissolution for divorce in California.

I had a client come in recently and they’re trying to do their own divorce and they finally threw in the towel, which we find a lot – it’s not as simple as they make it sound.

But anyway they’ve gotten pretty far into the divorce. They had filed the divorce papers, done some of the financial disclosures; we had to clean up a lot of what they’ve previously done.

But they went in to have to enter their judgment, and prepare the judgment forms and the self-help center gave them a big fifty-page judgment package to complete and I’m going to discuss that in another video.

But today, in this article, we’re talking about the actual judgment checklist and what the court actually expects you to do.

So you can see that the judgment checklist is three pages long and if you notice closely, it just gives you the forms that you need to use.

It doesn’t give any instruction whatsoever on how to fill out the forms. And that is the biggest problem when trying to do your own divorce.

So you have here default without agreement, it gives you the forms that are needed which is great, so you can use this as a checklist to the forms you need, but then you have to get the forms, you’re going to have to fill them out. It doesn’t tell you how to file them, it doesn’t tell you how to fill them out, and it doesn’t tell you how to serve them.

And some of these forms are quite complicated.

Now we’ve done a self-help video on most of these. We’ll probably try and get to all of these at some point but there are so many forms when it comes to completing your divorce it’s really hard to become an expert on all those things, especially for you, if you’re trying to do this on your own.

So, just kind of want to give you that kind of heads up on what you’re looking at doing, this is again just the final step, this is not going to court multiple times filing, serving, doing the disclosures, the financial stuff and all that.

This is just the final step – three pages checklist – just to submit your paperwork and over fifty pages of judgment forms that you have to complete for your final step in your case.

We also recommend you use our professional service for your divorce such as us and this comes at different times for everybody.

It may be at the very beginning, you say: “Forget it, I don’t want to deal with this!” or it maybe halfway in the middle where it occurs a lot or at the end when people get thrown a stack of fifty pages to deal with to finish their divorce – they’ll call us then.

Whatever that time is, we’ll pick up where you left off and wrap up your divorce. We can help you anywhere in California.

So make sure to give us a call – 661-281-0266 or go to our website at divorce661.com. Thanks!

Default California Divorce Make Sure To Request What You Want In The Petition

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Default California Divorce Make Sure To Request What You Want In The Petition

If you watch our videos, you know we talk a lot about the default divorce process and quickly this is where you file for divorce and the other party doesn’t respond either unintentionally or on purpose and you’re going to complete a default style of case.

One thing to keep in mind is when you fill out your petition, now if you haven’t started the process or you’ve already started the process, this is form FL-100.

The petition basically lets your spouse know what your requests are, what you’re requesting in the divorce and also let the courts know what you’re requesting and I want to talk about why it’s important to place the correct request that you want on the petition, specifically in default style of cases.

On the petition, you’re going to state some statistical information, date of marriage, date of separation. You’re going to list the children’s information if you have kids. You’re going to list who and how child custody is going to be, whether it’s going to be full physical, full legal or joint and so forth.

Specifically regarding that, if you file the petition and let’s say you put joint physical and joint legal custody on the petition, you file it and you serve them, thirty days goes by and they don’t respond and now you’re going to file a default.

You can only ask for what you put in the petition and here’s the idea.

If the other party doesn’t want to contest in anything you requested like basically, I’m fine with what you’ve put on here so why do I need to respond, that’s their option.

So, when you go to file your divorce papers, your final agreement or your final judgment as a default. The only thing you can ask for is what you put in the petition. For example;

If you put joint, physical joint legal on the petition and then you go and file your default and you ask for full legal and full physical custody.

The courts are going to reject your judgment because you asked for more than or something different than what you put on the petition and essentially it wouldn’t be fair to the other party if you let him or her know, hey, I want to have a joint custody and then when they don’t respond, kind of a sneaky way go back and say I want full custody.

The courts won’t allow that because if he knew or she knew you want full custody perhaps they would have responded and said no, I don’t agree with that.

That’s the basis of how that works.

Number one, make sure you ask for what you want, even if you think, oh I think he’ll want joint. Put on the petition what you want, that way of there is a default. You can get what you want.

If you kind of go down the middle of the road and say well I think he’ll want this, I think he’ll want that and then there’s no response. You’re going to have to do exactly what you put on the petition. So make sure that is what you want.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

We can help you with your divorce anywhere in California. Make sure to check out our website, we have hundreds of videos, pod casts, tutorials, you can even find us on iTunes at divorce master radio. Give me a call, I’d be happy to give you a free consultation over the phone. 661-281-0266.

How And Why To Amend California Divorce Petition

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How And Why To Amend California Divorce Petition

Today we’re talking about what do you do if you need to change something on your petition.

And this is kind of a follow up to a video I literally just shot. When I turned off the camera I realized there’s more I wanted to say, so, I figured out just do another video.

Let’s assume that you fill out a petition, you file it, you serve it on your spouse and you want to change something.

Well, you have to fill a new petition, so an amended petition. Put on the changes that you are requesting and you have to re-serve it.

Again, it has to be done personally served again. And this can happen for a variety of reasons. I just had a case where the case was somewhat amicable.

We filed a petition for joint legal and joint physical custody and in moving forward things change between the parties and the party that filed decided they wanted a full legal and full physical custody as supposed to joint and the other party wasn’t responding they weren’t participating so the only thing you can do is amend your petition and that’s what we did.

So, here would be the steps.

Assuming you’ve already file your petition, it’s already been served. You have to file an amended petition and you have to re-serve it, personally serve it again.

And then you’re going to have to wait your thirty days again as well. That will set the new date. Every time you file a new petition and serve it. You have to give the other party thirty days to respond before you can move forward with your case.

Just keep that in mind if you do want to make changes and this is particularly is regarding default cases where there’s no agreement. The other party is not involved.

Because if you back to the other video I discussed, you can’t ask for anything other than what you asked for in the petition. So, if you want to change your mind you have to file a new petition and serve it so you can do that in your divorce.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

We have hundreds of videos, we’re on YouTube, we have enough podcast on iTunes at divorce master radio and call me direct, I’d be happy to give you free consultation. We can help you with your divorce anywhere in California. 664-281-0266.

How To Get Divorced In California When In The Military And Deployed Overseas

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How To Get Divorced In California When In The Military And Deployed Overseas

This article is for everyone on our arm forces. Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Army, you name it.

When going through divorce, people in military as you know go through divorce, probably at a higher rate than most due to deployment and what not.

But I want to let you guys know that we can help you even if you’re overseas, if you have residency in California.

We have helped many people in the Army, various related arm services who are deployed in Italy, in Germany, in Australia, and other places abroad who are deployed but their residency is in California and they want to get divorced and they’re not going to be back for several months or years and they don’t want to wait to come back to California to complete their divorce.

So, you do not have to physically be present in California, as long as your residency is California.

Like for me, I was in the Marine Corps, I was stationed in San Diego, I’ve lived in California my whole life but when I deployed, we’re talking many years ago, we’re talking desert storm, 1990 – 1991.

If I were married at that time and I want to get divorced. What would I do? Would I wait for years to come back or could I call a service like mine and have them complete the divorce for me.

And that is exactly what we’ve done for several people so far that are deployed overseas.

So, if you live in California, when you’re not deployed and that’s where you grew up and that’s where you have your residency. Maybe you have a California ID or driver’s license.

You can still file for divorce. We are full service so you don’t have to be here. We can do everything via email, over the phone and I know sometimes phone is challenging but we also have a chat feature to take care of that.

But we can schedule appointments. The last time we did, the gentlemen is deployed in Italy, that’s a nine hour time change so we just have to coordinate phone calls and things at that nature. But you can get through the divorce process.

We do everything for you, we’ll take it down to court, we’ll file it, we’ll serve it, we do all the forms, all the processes. You don’t have to worry about anything, you don’t need to even obviously leave the country and we can take care of the whole thing for you.

So, I just want to let people in the military know that we are here to do that for you if you needed to do that while you’re deployed.

Just give us a call. We’ll tell you over the phone exactly what we can do for you, what the process would be like, which we are looking at as far as getting it done and we’ll take care of business for you.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. Please feel free to visit our website.

Give me a call if you have any questions. 661-281-0266. We’ll be glad to help our arm forces personnel get through the divorce process while they’re deployed.

How We Help The Deaf During California Divorce

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How We Help The Deaf During California Divorce

Today we’re talking about our chat feature on our website.

If you’re on divorce661.com you may notice in the upper right hand corner there’s a little button there that says ‘Help’ or something along those lines.

We also have interactive chat feature that will pop up if we’re monitoring it and allow you to ask questions, things of that nature.

And one thing we didn’t know it would actually end up doing is help people that are deaf.

So we kind of want to bring this up, and let people know that – I know this is kind of intuitive this being on video talking about how we can help people that are deaf but it just so happens, we’re also going to write a blog about this too so hopefully they’ll find that.

So we have a person reach out to us via email and ask is if we are able to help them. They indicated that they were deaf. And they want to know if we could do it by TTY (telecommunication device for the deaf) or some type of service or via email.

And via email can be very difficult going back and forth just waiting for the email to come back when you’re trying to have an actual conversation. If it’s a replacement for conversation, I thought it would be probably very cumbersome.

I emailed back this gentleman and let him know to go on to our website, we would turn on the chat feature and we were able to have a chat directly through our website and basically completed this divorce by chat.

So I just want to bring that out there, that that is an option out there that we try and have a lot of technologically advanced systems on our website – there are blogs, there are videos, pod casts and our chat feature.

We just didn’t realize it was going to help people that are deaf or unable to communicate otherwise and I just thought it was a good thing to talk about and we’re actually starting promoting that.

So for those that cannot hear and are deaf and need to get through divorce. Those people are out there obviously.

Feel free to use our chat feature, send me an email, we can set up the chat and then we can have the conversation via chat.

To be honest with you, he was very pleased that we’re able to service him and actually have a conversation because by chat it goes very quickly as long as you can type quickly. But you can communicate your thoughts and you can respond to direct questions back and forth without having to have long drawn out email conversations that take a long time.

So there it is, I just wanted to talk about our ability to service people that are deaf and we can do that through our chat service

Of course, for other folks if you would like to chat, we can also do that for you as well. Divorce661.com is our website. 661-281-0266 is our phone number. Feel free to give us a call and we’d be happy to help you with your divorce in California.

Thanks!

California Divorce How Long Does The Divorce Process Take?

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California Divorce How Long Does The Divorce Process Take?

Today I want to answer the question I get most frequently every day, a hundred phone calls a day. How long does the divorce process take?

I swear that is the most frequently asked question and I’m trying to get this out on video so hopefully people come across this and they can find it online and on this video.

There are two answers to how long it takes.

You may or may not have heard of the six months. Its California’s cooling off period. People hear six months and oh, it takes six months to do the divorce. It takes six months to do the paperwork. That’s not true.

The six month rule is the soonest your divorce can be completed. It’s the soonest. Now let’s back up. Where does that time frame start? Not from when you file but from when your spouse is served. That day your spouse is served, six months and one is the soonest your divorce can be finalized.

You divorce could take a year, it could take two years. People come to me who have been trying to get this process over for four, five years.

The soonest your divorce can be finalized is six months and a day after your spouse is served.

Now, keep in mind that you don’t have to wait six months to finish all the paperwork. You can do all the paperwork immediately and if you’re going to do a default case or hybrid case, you can do everything within thirty days. You can even submit your judgement within thirty days, your agreement or whatever you want to call it.

You can submit that and you can get it in line to get reviewed.

Now, here’s one more time frame for you on answering this question how long it takes.

Let’s assume you get all your paperwork done and you submit your final agreement, all the signatures, all the agreements, everything.

From that point, depending on which court you’re at in California, it can be anywhere from six to eight months get your divorce paperwork, your judgment finalized and actually be done.

The idea here is get you paperwork done as quickly as possible. Get it submitted. You don’t have to wait until six months has passed to submit your agreement.

Get it in early. If they happen to get to your judgment sooner, then you’ll get your judgment back. It’ll be approved but it’ll just be on future date into the future.

We’ve had case where we’ve done in thirty days, we submitted it and got approved but the effective date of the divorce is four months from now or five months from now. It just depends on how fast they got to it.

So you can get it done and just get it over with, don’t wait, get your paperwork in.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. We’d love to help you with your divorce. We can help you anywhere in California. So, feel free to call us and we can save you money.

A lot of people think to use our service because we’re professional full service process that’s going to cost them more, in fact it will cost you less than you could do it on your own because we’re going to save you some court fees.

Again, anywhere in California. Go to our website at divorce661.com. We have hundreds of videos like this. If you’re looking for more information we have a podcast on iTunes, you can listen to us there at divorce master radio.

But feel free to call me, I’d be happy to discuss what we can do for you over the phone, how we can save you money and time and frustration on your divorce in California.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

California Divorce What To Do If Your Default Is Rejected

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California Divorce What To Do If Your Default Is Rejected

Today we are talking about the request to enter default and some issues and ideas of how to get things moving forward for you with your divorce in terms of your request to enter default.

Couple of things, first of all I want to talk to you about the default specifically and when you can submit it.

The request to enter default is used when the other party is not going to participate either intentionally, because they don’t want to or you can’t get a hold of them or something like that.

What you do is you have to wait thirty days after that party has been served, I would actually go even thirty one, thirty two days just to be careful and you can submit that request to enter default document to the court and it will take a few weeks and eventually the clerk will approve it if you’ve done everything else right.

They’ll approve the request to enter default which will then allow you to move forward with your divorce without the other party.

One thing we’ve been seeing a lot of lately is people filling out all their forms at once. These are people that aren’t using our service and they’re getting their default rejected and here’s why.

Some forms aren’t filed quickly with the court, like when you go file your summons and petitions when you filed for divorce. That was filed relatively quickly. You went to the clerk, they stamped the forms, and it was filed.

The request to enter default works differently. If you mailed it in or if you take it to the clerk, that’s not something that they’re going to look at and stamp and get back to you right away.

It will be taken under submission, meaning, they’re going to give it to probably the clerk in the court room, they have to pull your file and make sure proper procedure has been met up to that point.

So, it can sit on their desk for weeks, maybe even a month or two months. We’ve had some take three months.

So, what they’re going to look at, they don’t know when they actually got that document received, they’re going to look at the date that you put on your request to enter default.

If you fill that form out earlier and that’s fine. You can. Just don’t date it, make sure the date on that request to enter default is thirty days or thirty one or forty days after the other person was served, your spouse was served.

Because of they get that request to enter default and they review it and let’s say it’s December 1st and you filed on November 1st and you turn that paperwork in even any time after that thirty days but you dated it any time before the thirty days have elapsed. Then they’re going to reject it.

Basically what I’m saying is. I think I’m going off on a tangent here. Don’t date that form within that thirty day period. Date it thirty days after because even if you submitted it six months down the road.

They’re going to look at the date on your form and say, they did this too soon and they’re going to reject your request to enter default.

Now, on that note as well. If you’re going to strategically default the other party, and we do this a lot of times and we say there’s no property, there’s no assets, no debts, it’s a very simple case.

There’s no reason to even involve the other party. Let’s get them served and let’s just finish this up on our own because we really have nothing to divide so what’s the point of having them involved. So that’s much easier to do.

Submit the default with the judgment. You don’t have to submit the default, wait months on in, get the default approved and then submit the judgment. When you are going to default someone strategically, submit the default with all your judgment forms. That way it’ll be treated as a hybrid or a default without agreement and they’ll all understand it’s all right there.

Here’s the request to enter default, here’s the judgment and they can probably get it all approved at the same time even though the six months hasn’t passed.

Give me a call if you have questions on that. I’d be happy to discuss that. I’m sure it’s on one of our videos. Of course we are a paid service.

If you’d like to use our service to help you finish up your divorce or even start it if you’ve come across this video. We’ll be happy to help you.

My name is Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

You can reach me direct at 661-281-0266. Please visit our website at divorce661.com. We have hundreds of videos, pod casts. We’re on iTunes under divorce master radio. If you want to learn more about our company, I’d be happy to help you.

Divorce Paralegal Service Woodland Hills CA

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Divorce Paralegal Service Woodland Hills CA

Today we are talking to our friends in Woodland Hills California.

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce. We do specialize in divorce and we handle all of Los Angeles County and I want to talk to you a bit of what we do, how we can help you through the divorce process, how we can save you money.

So, we only handle divorce. If you’re looking for a flat fee service or low cost service to help you with your divorce, you want to avoid the high cost of attorney’s fees and you don’t necessarily want to try and do this on your own, in a minute I will explain why you don’t want to do that. It’ll actually cost you more money at the end of the day.

But essentially, if you’re looking to file for divorce, we can help you. All we do is divorce, other companies do 10 to 15 other services, they may be handle 1 or 2 divorce cases a month, we handle 40 to 50 divorce cases a month and we have the process down cold.

We’re full service firm, we will take care of everything from start to finish including filling out all the forms, going down to court for you, filing, serving, prepping your disclosures, all the financial assets and debts and things needed to be done and we’ll prepare your final judgment. A to B, we’ll have you done.

Now, you’re going to save time and you’re going to save money.

Let me explain. Because you are not going to have to spend hours on the internet, figuring out what to do, trying to locate the forms, trying to figure out the process and not having to go to court. You’re going to be able to go on with your life and you’re not going to have to make the mistake that everyone else trying of to do their own divorce, it does and that is spend extra money with court fees.

So, let’s talk about that. When you file for divorce there is a process that you have to follow and the court process is this: One of you have to file and pay a filing fee, right now its $435, the other person will have to also file a response and pay $435. $870 you’re already out of pocket.

If you do the divorce yourself that’s going to be your total cost, total amount of checks you’re going to write $870, not including all your time, not including all the photocopies you have to make, postage and mailing things to court, times spent to the self-help centre, time away from you family or doing things at night. We heard it all.

Not to mention, you’re probably going to mess it up and have to do it multiple times. We do so many cases where people have mess things up, we have to fix it and they’re just completely frustrated. Save yourself the time.

From the cost perspective, the cheapest you’re going to get out of this is $870. So, let’s use that as a figure and you’re doing all the work. It’s a lot of work, lot of paperwork.

Let’s talk about the other end. Where people think they can save money by using an online service. Online services have low upfront costs. They have fees that say anywhere from $300 to $400 or maybe $500 total cost.

However, again, you are doing all the work. All they’re doing is preparing the forms for you after you fill out information on long questionnaire and then they print them and send them to you. No one reviews them, no looks at them, they’re usually wrong.

Again, then you have to do all the work and you have a total cost of $870 in fees still plus the $300. Now, you’re looking at $1170.

Those forms are free. If you’re going to do this on your own, don’t pay an online service. Just go and get them for free or go get them down to court. It’s going to take you just as much time.

Now, let’s talk about what we do. And if I didn’t say it already, those two services, you doing it yourself and using the online service, $870 if you do it yourself, $1170 if you use one of the online service providers and there’s hundreds of them. You have to do all the work.

Those are just the hard cost out of pocket, we’re not talking about your time, gas driving to court, the multiple photocopies, time spent in the self-help centres, time at night, instead of spending with your family trying to do this on your own.

Now, here’s a secret. You think it’s cheaper to do it yourself, no. You think it’s cheaper to use an online service, absolutely not. We can do the entire process, start to finish for less than any other service provider out there because we use a flat fee process and we can get you through the court process on a single filing fee.

So, if we are doing the work for you. We’re going to be less than that $1170. You can go on with your life. We’ll fill out all the forms, no questionnaires. We’re here to answer your questions. You can fax us, email us, call us, ask us questions and we have all the court’s software.

If you have kids, if you’ve been married for a certain length of time there’s going to be child support, spousal support, custody, visitation, all these things that an online service provider can’t help you with. We can help you with that. We deal with that every day. We have all the court’s software. We’re going to take care of that for you.

We have the DissoMaster software that helps you determine child support and spousal support numbers, we have everything an attorney has and we can help you get through this process.

So, please give me a call, I’d love to help you out. Again, this is all we do, is divorce.

Now, if you’re in Woodland Hills and you’re watching this video, we are located in Valencia. We handle all of Los Angeles County. In fact we handle all of California. We have a very streamlined online process and when I say online, we’re talking about email and over the phone.

We will not send you a questionnaire. We will not send you a laundry list of questions that you have to answer and send back to us. If you don’t want to drive up to our office, we’ll be happy to do the appointment right over the phone as if you’re sitting in front of us and we’ll fill out all the forms for you and fax them to you, explain the process start to finish.

Give me a call. I’d love to help you out there in Woodland Hills, divorce661.com.

We’re also on iTunes at divorce master radio if you like watching podcasts and on our website we have hundreds of videos, tutorials, self-help videos as well and make sure to take a look at those.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

Divorce Paralegal Service Encino CA

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Divorce Paralegal Service Encino CA

Today we are talking to our friends and future potential clients in Encino California.

We’re licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We specialize in divorce in California and I want to talk to you a bit about what we can do for you, how we can save you money and explain to you a little bit about the divorce process.

Because we’re a full service, essentially we’re going to take care of everything from start to finish. That means we fill out all the forms for you. No questionnaires when you use our service. We take care of that for you. We’re going to go down the court for you. We’re going to file your documents for you. You won’t have to miss work or stand in line at the courts or mess with them. We’re going to do that for you.

Number three, we are going to fill out all the forms including financial disclosures, schedule of assets and debts, incoming expense, filing all the documents, serving all the documents and including your judgment.

Now, because we are familiar with the court process and again divorce is all we do. We have all the court’s software and everything that a law firm has and the attorneys have for purposes of getting to the divorce.

We have the court DissoMaster software. If you’re not familiar that, it is a formula needed to determine child support or spousal support if that applies in your case. We do that. That’s part of our fee, there’s no additional charge. with

We have all the abilities to help you with determining child custody, visitation, parenting plan and so on.

When you use our service, because we take care of everything from start to finish, you’re going to save time and you’re going to save money. And I want to talk about the cost, because everyone wants to know what our costs are.

We work off a flat fee basis, we have three tiered plan based on the amount of work. You can find that at our website at divorce661.com/pricing and you can pretty much look at it and find exactly where you fall in.

Now, when you are shopping to use a company and I want you to keep in mind that some people out there and including and specially this online service providers will lure you in with initial upfront low fee but there’s lots of hidden fees so let’s talk about that.

When you use an online service provider you’re looking to pay anywhere from $300 to $500 in advance to get the process started and here’s how they work:

You have to do all the work. You have to fill out a questionnaire. Figure out what goes in the boxes and figure out custody and visitation and figure out your spousal support, child support which means multiple trips to court.

It’s a lot of work to use these, they have that low fee, so it pretty much lures you in and then you pay that fee and you kind of get stuck using them. I know this because we get a lot of clients that have used these online services and have been unable to successfully navigate the divorce process and they’ve come to us for help and had to fix everything for them.

So, just keep that in mind. You’re going to be doing all the work if you use these online service providers and it’s going to cost you more money and here’s how.

Let’s say at the very low and you paid $300 to have this online service provider do the forms for you. Essentially that’s printing them out because it’s an automated system. So, no eyeballs are actually reviewing to make sure it’s correct.

$300, you’re going to have to do all the work and two filing fees. You’re going to have to file the initial paperwork. The summons and petition and pay a filing fee of $435.

If you follow their 20-page instruction sheet, then after you follow the initial steps your spouse is going to have to file a response and pay another $435.

You now have $870 in filing fees and $300 in costs. You’re doing all the work, you’re going down the court, you’re missing time at work, etc. You have$1170 and you’re doing everything. All you’ve done is paid someone to print the forms for you and hopefully you punched in the right information because no one is looking at it.

When you use our service, we are going to be less than $1170. We take care of filing. Serving and I only mention this but again everything. We’re going to go down the court. We’re going to fill out all the forms, no questionnaires. You go on with your life. We’ll take care of everything for you, start to finish.

And we do that for less than the online service providers are able to do it and here’s why.

This is the secret. I’ve worked for the courts. There is a way of getting through the divorce process on a single filing fee. So, you have a one-time fee of $435 and then our flat fee and it takes care of doing all the forms, photocopies, faxing, driving down to court, everything and we’re less. You can go on with your life and we’ll take care of business for you on our end.

We specialize in divorce, that’s all we do. We handle multiple cases per day. We have a very high volume of business. Now, for you folk that are in Encino, we are located in Valencia but the good news is you don’t have to come out here if you don’t want to.

We have clients all over Los Angeles County. In fact we have clients all over California. We have a very systematized process, we can do it over the phone via email and when I say over the phone and email, it’s not an online process. We will type up the forms for you. We’ll have an appointment via email or by phone or by video and we’ll go through it just as if you’re sitting here in our office and we’ll file the forms for you.

Sometime we do it via screen share where you can see exactly what we’re doing.

Give us a call, we’ll save you money, save you time. divorce661.com.

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Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.