California Divorce Spousal Support Stipulations To Show Income

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California Divorce Spousal Support Stipulations To Show Income

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

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

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

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

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

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

California Divorce How To List Your Property Correctly On Judgment

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California Divorce How To List Your Property Correctly On Judgment

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Thank you for watching.

California Divorce Court Acquired Jurisdiction Of The Respondent

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California Divorce Court Acquired Jurisdiction Of The Respondent

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Benefits Of An Uncontested Divorce In California 

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Benefits Of An Uncontested Divorce In California

Today, we’re talking about what’s some of the benefits are of going through an uncontested divorce in California. And when we say uncontested we basically mean the parties are attempting to work through their divorce.

And come to a conclusion or a decision on everything that’s involved with divorce on their own as opposed to allowing it to go the way of attorneys or in enough where in the courts in the divorce courts.

So I wrote down three notes here. Three kinds of topics I want to discuss and some of the benefits of going through an uncontested divorce in California.

The number one thing I wrote down was of course the cost of going through an uncontested divorce. It’s going to be far less than hiring an attorney at a very minimal cost.

If you end up with an attorney you’re going to spend at least $3500 to $5000 on your end. And your spouse is going to get an attorney as well and at the same cost.

And this is if there’s no court, no trials, nothing is contested and you each have your attorney of your own, you’re looking to spending $3500 to $5000 for an uncontested case with an attorney.

When you use a service such as ours that’s basically a paralegal service in California. We will book with both parties for the same fee. Our prices are very competitive and the value that you get in using our service is immense.

So that is the first thing I wanted to talk about is the cost. The next thing or the second thing that I want to discuss is that there’s going to be a less emotional tool in going through an uncontested divorce.

I have clients in my office many times both parties husband and wife show up to their appointment to talk through their divorce case.

And what I told folks is this that the fact that are they are even sitting in my office together,  the fact that they were able to agree to come in to our office and use our services for divorce is a step and a right direction in working towards amicable uncontested divorce in California.

Now what I tell folks is, I can pretty much gauge based on the conversation and the tone. And again this doesn’t mean you have to like each other. It’s going to be emotional.

It’s going to have, there’s going to be difficulties in getting through it. But basically what we’re saying is the parties are going to sit down together and attempt to work it out together. And in doing so, it will be a less emotional tool on both parties.

The third thing is if you have children this is going to be something where when you divorce if you have kids you’re still going to continue to see each other on either a daily or a weekly basis depending upon your custody and visitation schedule.

So it’s better to go through an uncontested divorce, work amicably or as amicably as possible through your divorce because you’re going to be seeing each other again either on a daily or a weekly basis in regards to custody visitation of your children.

And if that’s the case and your children are very young and there is going to be like custody visitation scenario playing out for years to come, it’s going to be better that you guys have a good working relationship so that doesn’t take a tool on the children because as you know the kids know more than they lean on to say they know or that we think they know.

So those are the top things, the cost, less emotional tool, and if you have children, young children what have you, you’re going to be seeing each other for some time in the future.

So it’s best you work through your kids amicably and it’s going to save you in those areas.

My name is Time Blankenship with divorce661.com specializing in California divorce. So feel free to give us a call. I’ll be happy to talk to you over the phone and see if you and your scenario is a good fit for our service here in California.

The numbers on the screen, feel free to give us a call or go to our website at divorce661.com for more information.

Thanks for watching.

California Divorce Service Providing Tips & Assistance On YouTube

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California Divorce Service Providing Tips & Assistance On YouTube

If you’re watching this video, you’re one of thousands of people that come across our YouTube videos every day in searching for a divorce service to help you with your divorce in California.

We have seen more and more people find us through YouTube than, I don’t want to say than our blogs because we have over a thousand articles in written format on our website and blogs, so we do get a lot of visitation or locating us that way but YouTube is obviously the number two search engine in search.

We have a lot of videos and people are finding us more and more through YouTube.

So, if you’re watching this video, make sure to subscribe to our channel at youtube.com/divorce661 and you’ll automatically be able to access all of the videos that we’ve shot, we’ve now hit nearly 300 videos as of this video.

We record several a week with helpful tutorials, tips, things we’re seeing in the courts, and things at that nature. Very helpful information that you can need either for yourself or for someone you may know that needs help with their divorce.

This is Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. Make sure to give us a call if you’d like help with your divorce. The number is 661-281-0266. Talk to you soon.

We Help Prepare Pension Division QDRO in California For Divorce

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We Help Prepare Pension Division QDRO in California For Divorce

Today we’re talking about California divorce and specifically QDRO’s it stands for Qualified Domestic Relation Order.

And what this is, is that you may need, if you have a pension or annuity or 401 case, some of these companies require you to divide up this property if says community property and you’re going through divorce and you want to divide up a pension.

Then, some of these pension companies, 401 case or annuities require you to divide it by a legal instrument called QDRO.

If you need assistance with the QDRO, this is a service that we perform and we can do this pretty much anywhere in California because the pension companies we have to deal directly with them.

So I just wanted to get this quick video out there and let you know that we can help you with QDRO’s.

We do them on a case by case basis.  Just give us a call let us know who the QDRO company is and we will be able to give you a call, let you know what the costs would be in doing so in preparation for the QDRO which basically is just contacting the QDRO company.

Finding out how long your marriage is and there is obviously some other things that are involved with that in determining what the percentage of pension the pension firms find suitable based on the length of marriage and some other factors.

And then, we can draft up the appropriate QDRO paperwork for the division of that specific asset.

Give us a call if you have questions about QDRO’s or dividing pensions, we can do that service for you anywhere in California. Please give me a call at 661-281-0266

We Handle Divorce Cases Anywhere In California

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We Handle Divorce Cases Anywhere In California

Today we’re talking about the fact that we can help you with your divorce case anywhere in California.

We are headquartered in Los Angeles County but what I want you to know is that because we’ve specialize in divorce and because we have quickly become the go-to folks for affordable full service divorce.

We have kind of grown beyond the Los Angeles County area and now have cases as far as north of Sacramento, as far as south of San Diego, as far east as San Bernardino County and Riverside County.

So, we can help you with your divorce anywhere in California and people ask me how we are able to do that and we’re able to do that because the divorce process is literally the same in every county.

The paperwork is identical in most cases and we do it by mail. We do it by email. We have some worksheets to send you. You provide the information that we need to complete your paperwork.

We complete your paperwork. We file it and serve it per the procedural process with the courts and we get the process done. We just do it by mail so it’s very simple. We have a very streamlined process in getting your divorce case completed anywhere in California.

So, if you’re watching our videos and a lot of people do. We have a lot of folks that find us on YouTube. if you’re watching our videos, just keep in mind, we can help you with your case no matter where you’re at in California so feel free to give me a call at 661-281-0266. I’d be happy to talk to you and let you know what we can do for you.

We Answer All Your Questions About California Divorce

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We Answer All Your Questions About California Divorce

Today we’re talking about who will you turn to when you are going through divorce and you have questions.

Now, specifically talking about those people who are representing themselves trying to go to loan to the divorce process and trying to make that decision on if you’re going to file your own paperwork or hire a professional company like us to take care of the paperwork.

We’ve been talking about this a lot this week because one of the major advantages to using our firm aside from obviously we’re going to do the paperwork correctly, go down the court, file, serve and do everything for you is that we are here as a sounding board, we’re here for questions, we’re here to answer your questions all throughout the process starting from day 1 when you come in to get started.

That usually is an entire hour of questions and answers while they’re filing out the paperwork and what is, what about this, what about that, what about spousal support and child support and all of these things that will come up. Whether you know you have the questions or not now.

We kind of run you through our process and answer all the questions that you have whether you know that that’s something you should be asking or not. Bring up all the possibilities, potentialities, eventualities, and all of these things we will discuss and bring up as points of conversation for consideration in going through your divorce because we do so many divorce cases in California.

We see a lot of different things, a lot of different scenarios and based on your specific situation in talking with you will be able to kind of give you an idea of how we see this going, what the best method moving forward will be and how we can help you with your case in California.

When going through divorce, the point of this article was that you’re going to have questions about divorce. You’re going to have questions about the process, the procedure, about property, about support, about everything that goes into divorce in California and when you work with a company like us, we are there to answer those questions for you.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. We can help you with your divorce anywhere in California. Please call us at 661-281-0266. I would be happy to give you a consultation and let you know what we can do for you.

Divorce Paralegal Service In Santa Monica, CA

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Divorce Paralegal Service In Santa Monica, CA

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

We’re offering our paralegal divorce service in the Santa Monica area and across all of California for that matter and I wanted to just talk to you briefly and let you know a little bit about what it is we do.

We are a full service paralegal firm. We are what is called a legal document assistant. We’re allowed to work with the public, have a direct company client relationship without attorney supervision.

Because we have the experience with the courts and working with law firms in preparing divorce paperwork we’re now allowed to work directly with the public.

I want to tell you a little bit about what we can do for you.

We are basically your affordable divorce solution in Santa Monica. We are full service which means we will file all the paperwork. We’ll go down the court for you and file it.

We will serve it, we will do all the financial disclosures and mandatory requirements and steps the court require and we’ll prepare your final judgment which will take care of everything from your distribution of assets and debts.

If you have children, we’ll help you come up with a parenting plan, we’ll help you come up with child support numbers, spousal support numbers and everything that needs to be included in the judgment.

We have all the court’s software. We have everything that a law firm would have or that the courts would have necessary to help you through your case.

When you work with our firm, essentially, the only thing we can’t do is give you legal advice and represent you in court.

So, the idea obviously here is that you guys are going to work together and attempt to come to a conclusion and decisions on how you want to complete your divorce and decisions about property and literally everything.

We do have all the court’s software. We can help you with that. We have actually worked for the courts in LA County before in the divorce courts, so we know exactly the processes, procedures and we can help you with things of that nature as well,.

Please give us a call. Our direct number is 661-281-0266. We are located in Santa Clarita, that is where our main office is.

We are currently expanding. You don’t have to come to our office if you decided to use our service. We have a systemized approach in doing this.

We do it right over the phone or via email and we still will do this in a full service fashion meaning, we will still be going down the court filing and serving.

We’ve grown throughout California. We actually now have divorce cases all throughout California and we just wanted to make those folks in Santa Monica aware of our presence so please give us a call. I’d be happy to give you a free consultation and let you know what we can do for you in your specific circumstances.

Please give us a call at 661-281-0266 or feel free to visit our website at divorce661.com.

Paralegal Divorce Service In Sherman Oaks CA

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Paralegal Divorce Service In Sherman Oaks CA

This is for folks and friends of ours that are in the Sherman Oaks area.

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm that specializes in divorce. That’s all we do in California.

In fact we’ve become the go to company for divorce all throughout California not just in Sherman Oaks or in the Los Angeles region.

We process approximately 300 to 400 cases every year and we’ve gotten really good in doing that.

A little bit about what we will do for you as a licensed and bonded divorce service is we will prepare all of your forms, we’ll go to court for you, we’ll file your documents, we’ll serve your documents, all the financial disclosures that are mandatory by the court, we will take care of.

We will prepare your final agreement or your judgment which includes all of the orders regarding spousal support and child support, parenting plan, distribution of assets and debts. Essentially everything from A to Z, we will take care of for you.

So, if you are a busy professional and you want to get your divorce completed in California but you don’t want to have to do it yourself and you don’t want to go to the other extreme and have to hire an attorney which of course can be very costly.

We are the right fit for you. Please go to our website at divroce661.com where you can find out exactly what your costs will be. We do work on flat fee pricing so there’s no hidden fees or costs and we don’t charge by the hour so you know exactly what you’re getting in to.

Please give us a call. Our main office is in Santa Clarita, California. We are growing every year. If we’re not nearby you, if you’re in Sherman Oaks as I’ve mentioned, please just give us a call. We’ll ride up the road from you or you we can do this over the phone or via email and we’ll take care of business for you.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com. Call us at 661-281-0266, I’d be happy to give you a free consultation over the phone. Talk to you soon.