California Divorce Service Now On iTunes | Divorce Master Radio

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California Divorce Service Now On iTunes | Divorce Master Radio

Hi, this is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. We specialize in divorce in California and I want to let everyone know we are now on iTunes and Stitcher radio.

That’s right; you can now on top of over several hundred videos and thousands of blog articles and podcasts, we now have an iTunes channel and we’re also on Stitcher Radio.

So, if you use one of those two applications, please look us up. Our official show page is called Divorce Master Radio again Divorce Master Radio.

I’ll have lots of podcast going in there and what you can expect with in this podcast is a little deeper look into our business, a little deeper look into the divorce process. We want to really connect with folks who use iTunes, who listen to podcasts or on Stitcher radio, because we have lots of videos. We know some people like to watch videos, so we have tons of videos. We know some people like to read so we have lots of articles on our blogs.

And if you enjoy podcasting as I do, sometimes I’ll go and take the dog for a walk, I’ll find an interesting podcast on iTunes or Stitcher radio, put my ear buds in and go for a nice hour walk and listen to a good podcast and that’s what we were hoping you’ll do.

If you are in your car you can also get us on iTunes and on Stitcher radio and we just wanted to have a deeper connection with you so you can learn more about who we are and what we can do for you to help you with your divorce in California.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com, make sure to go to iTunes and search for Divorce Master Radio. You can also find us on Stitcher radio.

Thanks for reading!

Why You Need Our Help During Your California Divorce

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Why You Need Our Help During Your California Divorce

Hi, Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. We specialize in divorce in California.

And today I just want to tell you a little story of a client who called us recently, who is very confused, very frustrated and even upset to a degree, about what was happening in her divorce.

So, a lady calls me, she had recently been served divorce paperwork and she’d actually been separated from her spouse for like twelve years, so it wasn’t like there is this huge emotion or anything  they’ve been separated for twelve years. They just never got around to do in a paperwork.

So, she was served the paperwork, received all the summons, petitions, all the financial stuff, all the proof of service, all the blank forms for her to respond. And when she first reached out to us, she essentially sent me an email off our website at divorce661.com. And the email was very long; she had all kinds of questions and I can just see by how she was writing that she was kind of frantic in what to do and trying to follow the instructions and all the paperwork was foreign and I totally get that. We get those types of calls all the time.

So, I asked her to call, which she did. And she was just completely frustrated and confused with the process. She wants to know:  “Do I have to go to the court?”, “Do I have to fill out the form?”, “How soon do I have to do it?”, “What goes in this box?”, “Do I have thirty days for this?”, “I had sixty days to do this stuff?”, “Do I need to…?” – You know those types of questions and it’s very common.

The reason I bring this up is because, after spending five or ten minutes on the phone with her, she completely relaxed, she understood exactly what needed to be done, she came into our office and hired our company to take care of everything for her and she wrote us a very nice email the following morning saying she was so glad. I think she used the word albatross to get this albatross offer back and just have someone in her corner to help her so she can go on with her life and not have to deal with the process and the paperwork and spend time figuring things out.

She has us as a resource, so now we are taking care of her response; we’re taking care of all her financial disclosures. We’re going to go down to court for filing everything, serve the paper and do everything that’s necessary for her and she is just totally relaxed now and can go on with her life.

Because when you get served divorce paperwork, it is a shock. It’s a legal proceeding and in fact, the summon says you’re being sued.  So, and you lead into things, there were boxes checked on her paperwork which I didn’t mention, that she made assumptions about because of what it said.

She thought that her husband was going after certain things and after I had her explain what it says that she is talking about. I told her, those boxes that were checked are completely boiler plate, meaning we always check those boxes. It’s nothing specific, nothing against her.

So, why do I tell you the story? You need to have someone in your corner; you need to have someone helping you with your divorce.

We specialize in divorce in California. We have flat fees. Go to our pricing page at divorce661.com. We have fixed fee pricing. You can figure out how much your cost is going to be just by looking at our site.

We have a description of if you fall on to this category; this is what your cost is going to be.

Not to mention if you start with us, we can get you to the divorce process for a one filing fee.  Normally there are two if you are going through a divorce in California, so, we can actually save you some money.

So, I just want to get this out to folks to, the sooner you can get someone in your corner the sooner you can find us online and call us, we can discuss what we can do for you, you’re going to feel much more comfortable going through the process. And that’s what I really want to talk about today.

Divorce661.com. You’ve been looking at the blue bar here probably this entire video. Give us a call, go to our website and look us up. Tons of great information. We’ll be happy to help.

Talk to you soon!

How We Started Providing Affordable California Divorce Services

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How We Started Providing Affordable California Divorce Services

Hi! My name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com, we specialize in California divorce. We’re a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm and divorce is all we do.

And if you’ve been watching our videos, you’ll notice that, we probably, we have now I would say, four, five maybe six hundred (600) videos, ‘how to’ videos, tutorials, videos about divorce, explain processes, things we’ve come across, things like that, just to get the information out about divorce in California.

Today, we’re going to talk about, a little bit about our company, where we come from, who I am as a person and so forth, just so you can get a little bit of background on who we are.

So, I started off in a military right out of high school, went in them Marine Corps for a couple of years, came out of them Marine Corps into Law Enforcement, actually started working for LAPD, which I did for 12 years and I enjoyed that very deeply.

I left LAPD only to strike it rich in the Real Estate if you remember in the mid-2000s, 2005, 2006, Real Estate was doing really well in California and I think just about everywhere.

So I left the department to start a real estate business and again did very well. And when that kind of tapped out, and the market dropped, decided to retool and go back to school, got my degree in the legal industry and started working for the Los Angeles Superior Court, where I completed a long term internship, actually I still have my foot in the door there, it’s been now, I think, three years that I’ve been with the Superior Court working with the judges and the divorce courts and so forth, San Fernando and Los Angeles, downtown court.

Then I started working for a law firm, one of  the largest law firms here in Santa Clarita, did that for two years and then discovered that there is a very under served market when it comes to legal services, specifically divorce, because that’s where my experience was.

And that people couldn’t afford the services of attorneys, and in many cases, didn’t even really need an attorney to handle their case, it was just that there were no other options.

Enter divorce661.com. We started up since, let’s see we are in 2013 – end of 2013 now. We’ll be entering our third year in business and business, I had to say, has been done really well this first year.

People are glad that there is a service that is flat fee, fixed cost service, that’s a full service process, where we take care of everything from start to finish – filling out the forms, serving them, taking them down to court, making all the copies, I mean, literally everything so you can go on with your life.

And statistics tell us that 90% of divorce cases don’t need an attorney, but that you do need some type of legal assistance, or help with the paperwork because it is a very complex process. So that’s us in a nutshell.

We’ve grown in the last, well, it’s been, two years now because we’re going into our third. This year, we’ve added five (5) employees. We have a second office here in Valencia. We have plans of expanding offices into the San Fernando Valley into Antelope Valley Valley, Ventura area. We service those areas currently, we just don’t have written more locations there yet. We’re just kind of waiting until the right time.

For that, well, we have plenty of plans. All throughout Los Angeles county, other counties – San Bernardino, in fact all of California we’ve probably handled cases in every county at this point because there really isn’t the type of level of service that we offer out there.

So, that’s it! Just want to let you guys know that.

Please call me, love to help you with your divorce. If we can’t help you for whatever reason because you are one of those few that need an attorney, I’ll be happy to refer you out! We know all the attorneys out there, all the good attorneys; I should say, so I’d be happy to refer you.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. Please spread the word about us. If you don’t need us, maybe a friend or a family member does, with the divorce rate being so high.

I’m sure you know someone that’s going through the process, we’d be glad to get a referral from you.

Divorce661.com is the website. Youtube.com/divorce661, about 400 or 500 videos as I said are on there. We’re also on iTunes at Divorce Master Radio. We do a weekly podcast where we go a little bit deeper into the process of divorce, and so lots of resources for you.

I’d be happy to help you, 661-281-0266 and thanks for reading!

 

California Divorce Default With Agreement vs Default Without Agreement

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California Divorce Default With Agreement vs Default Without Agreement

Hi, my name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. We’re licensed and bonded legal document preparation service specializing in divorce in California.

Today we’re talking about the difference between a default with agreement and a default without agreement.

So, when you do a default, you may have heard of a default case. A default simply means that the other party did not file a response. That’s all what a default means, it means they’re defaulting and there is a method of going through a divorce process where you file a default.

Now, there is two types of default cases; there is a default with agreement divorce and there is a default without agreement divorce. A default without agreement is also known as a true default case. A default with agreement is also known as a hybrid.

So, I want to talk to you about these two because there are a lot of people doing default without agreement cases because they don’t know that default with agreement exists.

So, let’s talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this.

Number 1: A default with agreement means the other party didn’t respond but they are going to do everything they would normally do if they’re going to be involved and do the paperwork just as they would if they did respond but they’re not going to have to pay a filing fee.

So, obviously there is an advantage to that. You have one filing fee, they can be involved in the case, all the same and you get the same finished product.

You will get the divorce they will be involve, they’ll sign the agreement and another benefit to that is when you are in agreement, the distribution of your assets and debts, your community property. You can decide how that’s to be divided. It can be lopsided, one person can get more assets, and one person can get more debts.

The court does not get involved with the actual distribution of your community assets and debts if it’s by agreement. In fact, they won’t even look at the values all they know is you’re getting X, Y, Z account. This person’s getting X, Y, Z car. No values are indicated.

They don’t care if it’s a lopsided; all they know is you guys have come to an agreement, they don’t care that one person got more or less, they know that you’ve made this decision in your best interest because both parties are involved.

Now, let’s talk about the default without agreement. When you do not have agreement, no response and the other party is not going to be involved, the court does not allow you to make those types of decisions when it comes to your community property. This community property is property you had or obtained asset or debt wise during the marriage. Okay, that’s what we’re talking about here.

The court will not allow you to have an unequal division of community assets or debts. They’re going to require that you literally cut it down the middle.

There are very few exceptions to this. In fact, if you want to get an exception from the court, you have to petition the court, and you have to go to a hearing and tell them why it’s in best interest to do it this way.

But right off the bat they’re going to reject any judgment you put forth on a default without agreement where you did not divide the assets and debts right down the middle.

And we have several cases like this where people would come to us after attempting doing the divorce on their own and doing a default without agreement and not being able to get the judgment approved because they have assets and debts, let’s say you have five assets each worth ten thousand dollars each. So, fifty thousand dollars on assets, but because of something that happened in the marriage or some agreement you have with your spouse, you’re going to keep more, let’s say thirty thousand of the assets and your spouse is only going to get twenty thousand.

On a default without agreement, that is not allowed. They will reject that time and time again. We’ve seen it happen with clients who have come to us. Their judgments get rejected and the court is enforcing the fact that the want them to literally divide the assets right down the middle even if it’s not fair, because they don’t know what’s fair other than to say it needs to be divided evenly because that’s community property.

We have another example, just called me yesterday; they’re doing a default without agreement but the other party is there and willing to do the paperwork they just didn’t want to pay the filing fee and they are having so much problems trying to file their default, their true default, no agreement, because the wife was going to keep her pension.

It was a community property pension. They’ve been married for a long time over twenty years but the husband didn’t want to have anything to do with the pension. He’s going to allow her to keep it but she had her judgment rejected twice because she is trying to keep the community property pension and the court won’t allow it.

So, she was trying to call, jump through all these hoops and get him to sign something to tell the court they doesn’t want it but the court won’t have anything to do with it. I told her: “Why don’t you just do a default with agreement? He’s here, he’s willing to sign paperwork, just get him to sign the paperwork and do a default with agreement.”

She was blown away. She had no idea this existed, she doesn’t have any idea this is possible. She’s coming in today for us to do the paperwork for her and its, it’s just getting him to sign a few forms. It’s still a default. It will still enter the default, but he’s just going to sign, the spouse is going to sign a couple of forms. They’re not going to look anything at the assets at that point. They know the parties have signed, they have been present and they’re doing things in their best interest and they are going to allow it.

So, this will be a simple fix for them and she is very happy to come in and get that done.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. We specialize in divorce in California. You can find us on YouTube we have hundreds of videos now, videos likes this that are helpful tutorials and so forth at YouTube.com/divorce661.

Feel free to call me. I’d be happy to help you with your California divorce. 661-281-0266.

Again my name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com.

Thanks for reading!

California Default Divorce How Community Property Is Treated

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California Default Divorce How Community Property Is Treated

Hi my name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com and we specialize in divorce in California.

We’re doing a lot of videos this week talking about California default divorce case.

A default simply is you file, you served the other party and they’re not going to be involved. And I want to talk specifically about community property as it pertains to a default case, again the default is you filed, the party was served, they didn’t respond. They are not going to be involved at all; they’re not going to sign a thing and how true default case and how community property plays a part in that.

Now, community property is property that you obtained, asset or debt, during the marriage. So, that’s the type of property we are looking at.

On a true default case, the court will require you, with very limited exception, to divide the property, the community property (assets and debts) one hundred percent evenly. They do not allow you to take more assets than the other party. They don’t allow you to give the other party more debts. It has to be cut down right down the middle.

Now, there are times where that’s fine. It is going to be split right down the middle, but most times, most of the time it’s not going to be fair, even though it seems fair to the court that you split all the community assets down the middle, fifty fifty.

A lot of times this community property is property that you want to keep on your own and it’s still fair even when your spouse says “Yeah, I want him or her to have that community asset”, even though the distribution would be fair, It would appear to be unfair to the court.

But when you do a true default case, the court doesn’t give you any leniency on that even if it is. So they’re essentially going to force you to divide property right down the middle, whether or not it’s truly fair to you or not or fair to the other party or not.

Now, true default cases where the other party is not involved at all, sometimes those cases are the only way to go, because the other party is not going to participate, you’re not on friendly terms, they are not cooperative and that’s your only option is to do a true default case.

However, we’re finding that a lot of people will do a true default case simply to save money on the fees.

In the normal course of a divorce, you would file, pay the filing fee, the other person will respond to get involved and pay another filing fee. And people would say “Well I don’t want to pay another filing fee just to get involved, we’ll just do a default.” But then you ran into this problem with community property.

So, what we suggest that you do what’s called a hybrid. A hybrid is a default with agreement. So you can have a default but you can enter into an agreement with your spouse and when you do that, you can divide up the assets and debts as you choose and the court will not get involved in how you divide up your property.

Call me if you have any questions on that, we do specialize in divorce in California.

Tim Blankenship is my name. 661-281-0266, and we’ll be happy to help you with your divorce in California whether you’re just getting started, somewhere on the middle or you are at the end of the paperwork turning in that has been rejected and you’re at wits end and frustrated with the process. We can fix everything, go back to day one and fix everything for you so please give me a call. We’d be happy to help.

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Van Nuys Divorce Self Help Legal Center

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Van Nuys Divorce Self Help Legal Center

Hi, my name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com and today we are talking about the self-help center at the Van Nuys Court House and the services they provide and I just wanted to let you know what you’re kind of looking at when you go down there.

So, there are some folks that should go down there and should use these types of services.

If you are low income, if you have more time than you do money, then the self-help center is probably a good place for you to go. The reason I say that is, it is free.

Now, you’re going to wait in line for a long time. It’s going to take you at least ten to fifteen trips, you know, full days spending at the court house over a period of time, maybe six months to a year. Going down there, wait in line each time you go because it’s first come first serve, they don’t work off appointments and they’re very busy.

So, if you have more time, let’s say you’re unemployed, maybe you’re part time and you don’t have money to come to a service like ours to help you prepare your divorce, then that’s going to be your best option.

But let me tell you who it’s not for. If you are working full time and you cannot afford to leave work for ten to fifteen times, you know, over period of six months to a year, going down there and getting help and wait in line and spending your time away from work and so forth, it’s not for you.

I know, I have worked at the San Fernando self-help center and the Van Nuys self-help center and I can tell you its extremely busy. It’s not a place you necessarily want to spend your time and there’s a lot of other things you can do to be productive.

So, that said, if you have more time than money, that’s the place for you. If you’re employed, give us a call and use a professional service to get your divorce completed. We can save you money; we can save you lots of time and a ton of frustration.

If you use our service, we can help you; we’ll do everything for you. You can go on with your life. We’ll take care of preparing the forms, filing the forms, serving them and going down the court for you.

We have all the court’s software; we have everything the attorneys have. We can get you through the process.

We operate on a flat fee basis and we can get you through the process on a single filing fee which means, not only are we going to be less expensive than you doing it on your own because of saving you that filing fee, but you’re going to save time, frustration and you can go on with your life.

Give me a call, my name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661. We are located in Santa Clarita, CA; you don’t have to come to our office if you don’t want to. We do a lot of this right over the phone. We have clients throughout Los Angeles County and have lots of divorce cases at the Van Nuys Court.

Please feel free to give me a call. 661-281-0266 or feel free to visit our website at divorce661.com, we have tons of videos, podcasts and you can even find us on iTunes at Divorce Master Radio.

Look forward to helping you with your divorce, Tim Blankenship. 661-281-0266.

Thanks!

Divorce Judgment’s Delayed In Los Angeles County Divorce Cases

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Divorce Judgment’s Delayed In Los Angeles County Divorce Cases

Good morning, this is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com, and today I wanted to talk to you about how the LA county courts are recording the judgments being submitted.

You’ll see on there that it’s saying that they are currently processing judgments, judgment packages that is as of May 6th this is causing some concern from my clients and I know there’s a lot of talk about this in the legal industry in LA County so the courts reporting that they’re currently working on judgments as of May 6th and we’re finding that this is absolutely not true.

So i wanted to get this video out there to let people know that everything is fine it’s just that the courts are very slow right now.

I must have 20 to 30 judgment packages sitting with the courts right now.

All prior to May 6th none of them have I received back.

So here’s what I recommend you do.

Number 1 is, go to the case summary at the LAsuperiorcourt.org and check your case summary. So go ahead and enter your case number and make sure that your judgment package had been received. If it’s been received anywhere I’d say from February this year this 2013 till now is still a big possibility that they have not reviewed your judgment yet and if it’s been received and you’ve verified that then this is just an issue of them having these long delays.

I know my clients are wondering where those judgments are. I’m on the Los Angeles county bar family law forum.

This is the back channel of sorts where attorneys and other legal professionals are communicating and everyone is talking about the delays with judgments taking many, many months as much as six months and more.

So just keep that in mind, it is taking a long time to get judgments submitted. The last time there was even an update to the superior court website was a month ago.

They had over 500 lay-offs a while back. I’m sure there are a lot of things going on. They had people that were demoted, people that were fired.

Position are going unfilled and positions where they needed to hire someone are being left unfilled so, of course their workload has gone up.

We are Just as a small paralegal firm here in Los Angeles, and we’re submitting probably five judgments a week to the court and we’re just one firm. Plus you have attorneys, and people going pro per and doing their own cases.

So, I’m sure that they are very busy.

Also, keep in mind that the court website is referring to the central court’s processing timelines. The branch courts like Lancaster, San Fernando, and Venice, they’re taking even longer and they’re not reporting where they’re at as far as judgments are concerned. So, it is taking a long time to get your judgment back from the court.

If you’re one of my clients watching videos, the emails regarding this issue just know that they are taking a long time. We are on top of it and once we submit it to the court it’s in their hands. It’s literally out of ours, so it’s just a waiting game at that point.

My name is Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. We do handle divorces in Los Angeles County. Please give us a call if we could be of assistance.

 

How To File A California Divorce Motion – Order To Show Cause – Request For Order

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How To File A California Divorce Motion – Order To Show Cause – Request For Order

Hi, my name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com, and today I want to talk a little bit about divorce motions, request for orders, order to show cause, it can be called any of those things.

Specifically, I want to address what you need to fill out in order to file a motion with the court.

The first thing you’re going to need is a form FL-300. This is the request for order application. It’s a four-page application. It’s pretty self- explanatory. There are some check boxes at the top of the first page that you’re letting the court and the other party knows what you’re requesting. Whether it be orders for spouse support, child support, and so forth.

The last thing you’re going to do on the last page is you’re going to write your declaration. You can hand-write it on that last page, and tell the court and the other party your argument of why you’re making your request.

So it’s fairly straightforward, but there is some initial documentation that you’re going to need depending on what you do.

First of all, if you’re asking for money, or you’re request has anything to do with money. You’re also going to need to fill out an income and expense declaration. This is an Fl-150. You’ll see there on the first page that it doesn’t say that you have to do it but there is a check-box that says that you have completed an income and expense declaration.

Again, anything that has to do with money is going to need an income and expense declaration.

Now, if you have proof of certain things, or you have evidence that you want to show the court.

So, proof of your argument, an attachment, email, a bill perhaps. You want to attach those as exhibits. So what you’ll do is you’ll have your request for order, followed by your declaration. In your declaration you can reference exhibits, and you can just say exhibit A is attached, then you’re going to have those attachments behind the declarations so the court can see what you’re trying to show them. And while they’re in the declaration, they can refer to your exhibits.

Now, if there’s not enough room on that declaration page, it’s only maybe three-quarters of a page of room. You can always mark the box, see attached and you can just write on are regular word document. You can type your declaration there

Now, service, once you file that motion with the court. You’re going to get a court date. That then will be served on the other party. When you serve that, you have to serve blank copies of exactly what you send them.

If you send them a request for order, you need to send them also a blank responsive declaration. I believe that’s FL-320, and if you send them a completed income and expense declaration because let’s say it had to do with money. You’d also want to send them a blank income and expense declaration cause they’ll need it if they’re going to file a response. They’ll also need to file an income and expense declaration.

So, I hope that’s been helpful.

Make sure you check my other videos on the dates of service, there are specific dates that things have to be served to the other party. Don’t forget to file the proof of service.

If you want to have us prepare a motion for you to get temporary orders for anything, please give us a call. We do this as a service. We take care of the whole ball of wax. We’ll complete your motion, attach exhibits, file your income and expense declaration. We will go to court and file it with the court and serve the other party.

We will file proof of service and take care of everything for you, then you’ll just have to show up in court and ask the court for your request.

I’m Tim Blankenship divorce661.com. We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We are headquartered in Los Angeles County and serve all the courts of California. We would be happy  to discuss your particular circumstances.

You can reach me direct at 661-281-0266.

California Divorce Marital Settlement Agreement | Divorce Agreement Assistance

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California Divorce Marital Settlement Agreement | Divorce Agreement Assistance

Hi, this is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com.

And today I wanted to talk to you about marital settlement agreements divorce settlements. Whatever you may want to call it.

We’ve been getting a lot of searches and hits to our website, people looking for settlement agreements, marital settlement agreements  et cetera. So, I wanted to talk about what those are.

First of all, marital settlement agreement, essentially, is the final agreement in your case, in your divorce. It’s going to outline all the agreements, so it’ll deal with child custody, if you have children, a parenting plan, visitation, spousal support, child support, division of assets, and division of debts.

Literally, all agreements will be encompassed in this marital settlement agreement. Now, when we found cases for folks, we’re a legal document preparation company, we specialize in divorce, we are a non-lawyer firm. But we can work with you direct to prepare your divorce case from start to finish.

We prefer using marital settlement agreements where having the parties come to an agreement in their divorce case. Other than that, you’re going to find yourself in court if you’re unable to come to an agreement. You’re either going to settle outside of court, or you’re going to go to court. Those are your options.

In the previous video, we mentioned that only five percent of cases actually go to court. So, big chance you’ll be able to use our divorce service all the way through. Come to an agreement, whether it’d be easy or difficult. And eventually, the two of you will come together in an agreement and then we will indicate that agreement on this marital settlement agreement and attach it to the final judgment, it is the final step.

A lot of people try it and come to all their agreements before they ever filed for divorce and then they’re waiting months and months to file because they’re trying to come to an agreement.

The important step here is to not to put the cart before the horse because the marital settlement agreement, everything as far as the agreements of your divorce are last.

The first thing you need to do is actually file your case, get the case number issued, get your spouse served, and start that six-month window or that six-month clock on that cooling off period.

After that, you need to work on your financial disclosures; that’s something we would have to help you do. And then you have an idea of what all of the assets and debts are on the table, they have a template so you can come up with an idea of how you want to divide those assets and debts and then we’ll indicate that on your final agreement, attach that on the judgment, and wrap up the divorce case for you.

If you have any questions about marital settlement agreements, settlement agreements for your divorce. We can certainly help you. If you’re working with another firm, and maybe an attorney, or a law firm in your cases.

You’ve already gone to court and you’re ready to wrap things up we could take that; take over for you, and for a flat fee. Wrap up your marital settlement agreement, and put everything together for you, and conclude the case for you.

My name is Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. if you have any questions about marital settlement agreements or divorce settlements, please give me a call. Be happy to discuss your particular circumstance, and see if we can help you out.

Direct number is 6612810266. You can find us on the web at divorce661.

Again, Tim Blankenship. If you have any questions, please give me a call, thank you.

California Spousal Support Information | We Explain Spousal Support Issues in California

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California Spousal Support Information | We Explain Spousal Support Issues in California

Hi, my name is Tim Blankenship. I’m owner of SCV legal doc assist and our website is divorce661.com.

Today, I wanted to talk to you a little about spousal support.

Spousal support is something you’ll have to address in your marriage, and I just want to cover a couple of topics.

First of all, we can help you with getting a spousal support order if you need one, a temporary order, we can help you prepare a motion during your divorce case and help you get some temporary support.

We also give post-judgment support orders. If you needed to modify a support order, or need to respond to a motion for support that’s something that we can help you with.

But I wanted to talk to you a little bit, just some basics, we’re not attorneys; we’re not a law firm. We’re just here to prepare documents, we do specialize in the divorce process, and we have worked for law firms and for the courts.

So we’re not here to over-complicate things, we’re just here to give you kind of a plain English explanation about how this works.

So, spousal support is determined quite simply by a determination of the income of the parties, the length of the marriage, and the need for support.

Now that can be a very long and complex topic but that’s kind of the essentials. How long were you married, how much the parties make, and is there a need for support.

Now, there are some basic rules to spouse support.

Again, keeping it simple, if you make more than your spouse, you may have to pay spousal support, sounds pretty clear. If your marriage is longer than ten years, the court can retain jurisdiction over spouse support forever.

So, what this says again, I’m not an attorney, so, I just wanted to make that clear, but if you were to look on the internet you’d find that California determines that a long-term marriage is that which is over ten years and the court can retain jurisdiction.

This comes up almost in all of our divorce cases that we filed for folks here. And if it’s over ten years of marriage, the court can retain jurisdiction. Doesn’t mean you have to pay spouse support, or that you’ll get spouse support. There has to be a need, and there has to be some other qualifying factors. But the court retains jurisdiction forever. So, ten years after your divorce potentially, one of the spouse could come back to modify the spouse support.

How spouse support is determined again, length of the marriage, if there’s a need and so forth. And spousal support is determined by what is called a DissoMaster. Courts use this; law firms have access to this. So also, have access to the courts’ software in helping you determine what spousal support would be.

Essentially, we’d take a look at what the parties make, punch it into this software, and spits out a number and lets us know what that numbers are going to be. It just gives you guidelines.

We can just get an idea of what you’re looking at. If you’re going to request for spousal support, you can always bring that if that’s what you decide to do.

Again, we are a full service divorce firm, we are not attorneys but we can help you file your divorce case, get you temporary for spousal support and do everything along the way and everything a law firm would do for you except give you legal advice and represent you in court.

If you’re looking for a cost efficient way of getting spousal support, or getting through the divorce process, please give me a call my name is Tim Blankenship my website is divorce661.com.

You can get tons of information there we have lots of videos on YouTube channel.

What’s best if you’re curious and you have direct questions, just give me a call, everyone’s case is different, so I’d be happy to speak with you, my direct number is 661-281-0266, and we’ll talk to you soon.