036: How To Save Money On California Divorce Filing Fees

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In this episode, we will talk about the ways to save money on your divorce in California and things you can do so you will pay less money on your divorce filing fees.

we will be talking about fee waivers with the court when going through divorce in California, there is a way you can get the fees waived if you qualify. I’m going to tell you a little trick on how to qualify if you don’t qualify ordinarily. It’s not really a trick but a strategy to save money because I’ll tell you what in California the divorce filing fee currently is $435 in most counties.

And it is as much as $450 in some of the counties in California. And it raises, it goes up almost every year.

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024: How To Look Up Your California Divorce Case Number

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In this episode, we will discuss how to look up your California divorce case number and why you will want to check your California divorce case number and case summary frequently during your divorce.

So if you are going through a divorce, obviously, you’re not going to have a divorce case if you haven’t filed for divorce.

But if you’re going through divorce there is going to be times you’re going to want to pull up your court records also known as a case summary to see that certain documents have been filed.

We will talk about the reasons why you would want to check the case summary.

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022: How Long Does It Take To Get A Divorce In California (Podcast)

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In this episode, we talk about how long a divorce in California will normally take. We talk about California’s cooling off period, why the soonest you can get divorced is 6 months and when the 6 month clock actually starts ticking.

I want to talk about more specifically when the time that clock starts and when you can anticipate being done with your divorce.

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

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

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

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

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

020: Types Of California Divorce And How To Save Money On Divorce (Podcast)

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In this episode, we’re going to be talking about the four different ways you can get through your divorce in California. And we’re basically talking about the different ways of moving through the process with the paperwork specifically because there are different ways you can do this.

What we’re going to be talking about specifically is the difference between what’s called a default divorce, a contested divorce and uncontested divorce and what the courts use and what they call a hybrid which is a combination of a true default and uncontested divorce case.

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