Uncontested Divorce Los Angeles

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Uncontested Divorce Los Angeles

We’re a licensed and bonded firm that specializes in uncontested divorce cases and we do serve the Los Angeles County area.

If you’re reading this, your case will most likely be uncontested.

Only 10% of cases by statistic end up in court, in trial and require attorneys.

We’re a divorce document preparation firm. We specialize only in divorce and serve all the courts in Los Angeles County.

We are a full service which means we take care of preparing all your forms. You won’t have to go to self-help center or try to figure out which forms to use. We’ll help you with that.

We’re going to file all your forms, so we’re going to take your papers to court and file them for you. No court appearances for you.

We’re going to serve them. You won’t have to hire a process server. We’ll take care of all of that or we can do it by mail.

And we’ll prepare all your financial declarations, we’ll run you through the entire process, complete your final judgment, and cleaning anything to do with parenting or spousal support or child support. We’ll take care of all that.

We have affordable rates. We have low flat fees. So you know what you’re paying for, you know what you’re getting.

The most important thing about what we do is that we can help you avoid having to pay two filing fees.

When you go to any other service or if you do this on your own, you’re going to be told that you need to file a petition which is true and pay a $435 fee and that your spouse will have to respond, pay a second $435 fee.

But we’ve worked for the courts in the past; we know there’s a process where you can get away with only paying one fee. It’s called hybrid dissolution and 90% of our cases are prepared that way, therefore saving you $435 in filing fees.

Give us a call so we can show you how you can save money. That $435 you’re going to save is going to offset the costs of us taking care of your divorce for you and save you some time, money and frustration.

We do offer free consultations over the phone. My direct number is 661-281-0266.

We are headquartered in Santa Clarita however we do provide our service completely over the phone or online, via email or mail.

We have plans all throughout California. We serve all the courts of Los Angeles County, so please feel free to give us a call. You’re always welcome to come up to our office and visit.

661-281-0266 and look forward to helping you with you uncontested divorce in Los Angeles.

Thanks!

 

Los Angeles Divorce Paralegal Service

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Los Angeles Divorce Paralegal Service

I want to talk to you about my divorce paralegal service that we offer in Los Angeles. We’re a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm and we specialize only in divorce.

In fact, we’re the only ones in the Los Angeles County that only do divorce.

We provide an affordable way to get through the divorce process. We can file, prepare, serve and complete your entire divorce case for one low flat fee.

If you’re thinking about getting divorced, please make sure to give us a call, we offer free consultations and we’d be happy to talk with you and discuss your particular case, and let you know what we can do to help you.

We serve all the courts in Los Angeles County and we are a full service firm. What that means is we can assist with the entire process.

Essentially we run our office exactly like you would if you had your case going through a law firm. The only thing is we don’t offer legal advice and we don’t represent you in court.

Being that we’re a full service, we’re going to prepare all your forms so you won’t have to fill them out, or go to the self-help centers.

We’re going to file them with the court that means you’re not going to have to go the court at all.

We’re going to serve them. That way, you’re not going to have a friend involved or hire a process server; we’ll take care of that for you.

We’re going to prepare all your financial disclosures and prepare your final judgment.

We’ll help you from start to finish in one low flat fee and most importantly we’re going to help you save on your cost with the court.

If you use any other service, you’re going to be required to pay two filing fees. That’s $435 times two.

When you use our service, we use a hybrid version of the divorce process which only makes one payment to the court of $435, therefore saving you $435 which makes paying our fee easier to handle.

Give me a call; we are located in Santa Clarita. Most of our processes are done completely online or over the phone, so you’ll never have to come to our office.

Give me a call for a free phone consultation, 661-281-0266.

Thanks!

Online Divorce Service Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

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Online Divorce Service Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

Today I want to talk to you about online divorce services.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We specialize in only divorce. We’re local here in Los Angeles County and we are serving the Palmdale and Lancaster area out in Antelope Valley.

If you’re watching this video, you probably recently done a search for online divorce services. And I want to talk to you a bit about the ups and downs of using those types of services, pros and cons if you will.

We’ve had a lot of clients from the Antelope Valley call us after using one of these online companies you can find on Google and there’s hundreds of them. They’ve gone to these services because they offer these affordable prices online, these teaser rates. And what they find out is the service is very lacking. They know they’ve wasted their time and money and become completely frustrated. They look for a full service firm such as ours and we usually have to clean up what mess has been started.

What we’re trying to do with this video is hopefully see that you’ll, in searching for an online divorce firm. They’ll come across this video and watch this and give us a call. Of course that’s what we’re trying to achieve here. But we also have a version of the online process. And I want to talk to you about the distinct differences.

When you use an online company that’s serving all the states, let’s say. All you’re doing is filling out questionnaires online and those answers automatically populated to the form and then you print that form. It’s not reviewed by anybody, no one is going to look at it to make sure it’s done right and then when you print your forms, you have to figure out how to file and serve and do all the heavy lifting and hard work that’s left in your case.

With our service, we can do it completely online. But essentially we’re not using questionnaires. We’re going to type up the forms just as is if you’re sitting in our office.

We can do that in a variety of ways. We can do it right over the phone. If you are a visual person and you like to see it we can use GoToMeeting where you can see our screens. But what we do is, we will prepare your case. You will never have to come to our office. We can do it right over the phone, via email, via chat, you name it. We have lots of resources here.

We can get your total divorce complete from start to finish and its full service, so it’s not just a form being completed by someone you don’t know, by some machine. Its live people who understand the divorce process, taking care of your case from start to finish.

In doing that, what you get with our service, even though we are doing it online or remotely is we’re going to prepare all your documents by hand. You will not have to do it. We’re going to file your documents for you. You won’t have to go to court. We’re going to serve them, so you won’t have to have a family member get involved or hire a process server. We’re going to take care of that for you. We’re going to prepare all you financial disclosures. We’ll help you determine child’s support and spousal support, parenting plans and draft your final judgment and we do all these for one low flat fee.

Now, let’s talk about prices a little bit. If you look online, you’ll find prices anywhere from $149 to $299 to use an automated service. When you use these service, they’re going to give you instruction sheet that tells you, you need to file your petition, $435 by the way and your spouse needs to file a response in a subsequent steps and another $435. That’s completely unnecessary.

Your spouse, in an uncontested case, if you guys are working through your case amicably does not need to file a response. What we recommend and how we save you money and what we recommend you do is that you don’t file a response, save that second $435 and those fees will cover our fees and well do all the work for you.

What we have found is, we have been able to provide a full divorce service for you and do all the work for you and it’s going to end up costing you less than using one of these online services where they have you file two fees.

Give me a call, I’d be happy to discuss that for you.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

You can get more information off our website there or just give me a call.

I’d be happy to talk with you! 661-281-0266.

Cheap Affordable Divorce Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

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Cheap Affordable Divorce Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

Hi! If you’re looking for an affordable and cheap way to get through your divorce in the Antelope Valley area, you’ve come to the right place.

We’re a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce.

We’re divorce paralegal firm that can help you get through your entire case from start to finish.

We offer flat, affordable rates. We have financing available when necessary and we can help you start your case, we can file all the paperwork, we’ll prepare all the paperwork, we serve everything and we run you through the entire process just like you would be as going through a law firm.

The only difference is we don’t offer legal advice and we don’t represent you in court.

Let’s talk about what our services cover.

We’ll prepare every document for you, we don’t use questionnaires here. You’ll sit down with one of our assistants and we’ll type up your forms for you. We’ll answer all your questions through our initial meeting so we can get the initial documents prepared to your case filed.

Once that’s done, we’ll personally take it down and have it filed with the court. Once it’s filed it needs to be served, we’ll take care of mail serving your documents to your spouse. Once that’s completed we’ll work on getting your financial disclosures completed and then later help you draft your judgment. We’ll take care of all that from start to finish for a flat fee.

You can go to our prices on our website. You can click up there and see the cost. We have a detailed explanation so you can learn what price plan you’re at.

Now, let me talk about our prices that you see, they do start for as low as $699, they do not include the filing fees. But I want to talk to you how we’re going to save you additional money on your filing fees. If you already use another service other than ours, you’re going to find that they’re going to ask you to file your petition which will cost you $435 with the court and then your spouse would have to file a response and pay another $435.

Now, if you’re like most of my clients, one of you are getting stuck with the bill. It’ll probably you if you’re watching this. You’re going to end up having to pay both fees because you want to get this completed.

What we do is we have a process where we use a hybrid judgment, where you can have an agreement with your spouse but not have to pay the second filing fee.

So, what that allow is, we’ll do all the work for you. You’re going to save you that other filing fee. Essentially our cost are almost completely absorbed by fact that we’re going to save you money on that additional filing fee and you don’t have to do any of the work.

Give me a call, I’d be happy to help you with your divorce or answer any of your questions you may have. My number is 661-281-0266.

You can get more information off our website at divorce661.com and I look forward to working with you.

Uncontested Divorce Service Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

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Uncontested Divorce Service Antelope Valley Palmdale Lancaster

We are serving the Antelope Valley area to Lancaster Palmdale. You know where you’re at.

I want to talk to you a bit about our uncontested divorce service. We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm specializing in divorce.

We’re a divorce paralegal service in the Antelope Valley and we want to talk to you a little bit about what an uncontested divorce means.

Uncontested divorces essentially are cases that are no contest, you may have heard.

A contest is referring to going to trial, going to court, and speaking to a judge.

So, uncontested means you’re trying to work things out. It doesn’t mean that everything is worked out. It just means you plan on working things out and hoping that you don’t have to go to court.

An uncontested divorce could mean that you and your spouse are still in this agreement over many issues. And it still is considered as uncontested divorce.

I want to clarify that because some people think when they are going through divorce, they kind of come to an agreement that they automatically need an attorney.

I’m not saying it’s not good to get legal advice, I’m just saying it may not be necessary.

Statistics tell us that in most cases, attorneys are not necessary to get through your divorce case.

Our service can help you with your uncontested case even if you have disagreements with your spouse.

Many times, these things work themselves out during the divorce process.

And in the process, once you filed and served your paperwork, the next step is to do all your financial disclosures. At that point, you have to come up with an idea how you’re going to split your property.

If you have trouble deciding at that point, before you seek an attorney, there’s always other services such as mediation that may be helpful and help you come to a conclusion or resolution for the issues that you are unable to come to decisions on, on your own.

Many times, this has to do with money, division of assets and debts. Maybe moving out of the family home, issues related to custody or visitation and all those can be down to mediation.

What we recommend id you start with us, get the ball rolling, get your case filed and served, and if you get stuck and you need assistance, you can simply let us know.

Say “Hey Tim, we can’t figure this part out, what do we do?” and that’s when you go to mediation.

It’s going to be a much more cost effective way of getting through your case.

So, that’s why we wanted to talk to you about uncontested divorce cases.

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation service specializing in divorce. We handle all of Los Angeles County and we are the only firm that specializes only in divorce.

Make sure to give us a call, we’d be happy to talk about your specific case. My number is 661-281-0266 and you can get more information off our website at divorce661.com.

Santa Clarita Divorce Paralegal Service

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Santa Clarita Divorce Paralegal Service

We are your local Santa Clarita Divorce Paralegal firm. We offer affordable prices and we can help you with your divorce process from start to finish anywhere in California for that matter but we are locally headquartered here in Santa Clarita.

We are a full service firm so we take care of everything from preparing your forms, filing your forms, we take them down to court for you, get them stamped, we’ll serve them, we’ll complete your financial disclosures, we’ll do your judgment, we’ll help you with establishing child support and spousal support numbers if needed.

Essentially we will do everything and can do everything a law firm does, except for two things. We can’t give you legal advice and we can’t represent you in court.

Outside of that though, we can do just about everything else.

We specialize only in divorce and we are a full service, so this means that we’re going to fill out everything for you.

And the reason I am focusing on that is that there are a lot of companies out there that you’ll see, maybe online companies, they’ve heard about that we’ll offer you a document preparation service but it’s completely automated.

We don’t operate that way. Problem is we’ve had a lot of folks that come to us after using those services and have had no luck and was a complete waste of time, money and they we’re completely frustrated.

So kindly get the word out that we are here locally and we can help you from start to finish and being a full service, we’ll take the whole shot from beginning to end.

My name is Tim Blankenship with divorce661.com. Feel free to give me a call and I’d be happy to sketch your particular circumstances and see how we can help you.

The number is 661-281-0266 and you can always get more information off our website at divorce661.com.

Antelope Valley Divorce Service | Divorce Paralegal

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Antelope Valley Divorce Service | Divorce Paralegal

Today we’re talking about how we can help you with your Antelope Valley Divorce.

We are licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We specialize only in divorce. We serve all the courts in Los Angeles County.

Because we are licensed and bonded, we can work direct with you for a flat fee. We don’t attorneys in our office. We’re not required to. We’re a paralegal in a sense, but we have to call ourselves legal document assistants.

We can help you get through your entire case from start to finish. We’re a full service firm, so, what this means is we‘ll fill out all the paperwork, we’re going to file the paperwork for you, we’re going to serve the paperwork, take it to court. Help you with child support numbers, spousal support numbers. Explain to you how distribution of assets and debts work. Basically run you through the entire process.

Because we are full service, we also do motions and orders and request for orders with the court. If you’re an antelope valley, your case will be held at the Lancaster court house.

The filing fees in LA County are $435 unless you qualify for a fee waiver.

Now, here’s the most important part I want to talk to you about.

When you use our service, because we’ve worked with the courts in the past. There is a way we can save you the second half filing fees on your divorce case.

When you file for a divorce, you’ll have to file for a petition and pay a $435 fee. If you’re doing this yourself or if you are using maybe an online forms company or someone other than our service essentially your spouse is going to be directed to file a response. That response is going to cost you another $435. Now, you are at $870 in court fees and you’ve just began the process.

What we will recommend is you give us a call. We can save you on that second half court fee which will almost cover our cost for helping you in taking over this process for you and completing this for you.

My name is Tim Blankenship.

Give me a call. 661-281-0266.

If you’re on this website now or watching this video, divorce661.com and you can watch videos, podcasts and read over a thousand of articles that I have personally written.

Talk to you soon!

Santa Clarita Mediation Services | SCV Divorce Service

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Santa Clarita Mediation Services | SCV Divorce Service

Today we are talking about mediation. I’m going to give you a brief overview of what mediation is and when it would be useful when going through your divorce.

We are a licensed and bonded legal document preparation firm. We specialize in divorce only.

What we do is, we prepare legal documents. We’ll get you through your entire divorce from start to finish as a paralegal would or as a law firm would. The only difference is we don’t give legal advice or represent you in court.

Sometimes when people come to us, they’re hoping that they’re going through the whole process on their own, come to all their agreements and things like that. But, what happens when you can’t agree?

That’s where mediation would be appropriate. Let’s say you have a lot of the things figured out but maybe you have a disagreement as to custody of the children or you have a disagreement regarding spousal support or child support or distribution of your property.

Where you have problems coming to an agreement, you can use a professional mediator to help you come to those decisions. And what they’ll do essentially is explain the law to you, they’re neutral party, they’ll sit down with both of you and your spouse, explain the laws so you can make and form decisions about how you want to make decisions regarding your divorce.

When it comes to divorce, there’s only two ways it’s going to end. Either you and your spouse are going to make an agreement or you are going to go to court and have a judge make the order. Hiring attorneys and using mediators and everything else in between. At the end of the day it comes down to you and your spouse would make an agreement that may be amicable, it may be highly contested or through a court order.

So, we highly recommend mediation if you are having difficulty coming to agreements. We have clients that come in here, we get started, they think everything is going to be fine and we get three quarters through the process and they realize they’re stuck on a particular issue.

I’ll often refer them out to a mediator, they’ll get their mediation and then they’ll come back to us and we’ll wrap things up.

When you are going to mediate, if you’re considering mediation from the get go and you know you’re going to need a mediator.

What I suggest you do is give us a call because you cannot start mediation with a mediation firm until you have gotten about three quarters away through the process.

That means you have to file, you have to have the paperwork served and both of you need to complete your financial disclosures.

And we take care of all of that for you as part of our fix fee pricing when we’re preparing your divorce.

So, what we recommend is before you call a mediation company, give us a call. Let’s get started.

Let’s get the ball rolling, let’s get your spouse served so we can start the clock and that six month waiting period. Let’s work at all your financial disclosures. Once all the financial disclosures are completed, then you can pick that up, walk in to the mediation firm and start your mediation.

You may find that starting with us, you may think you need mediation and then after we’re done all the disclosures and financial paperwork, you may have just work things out on your own and save some money on mediation to begin with.

Point of this video is if you are considering mediation, just give us a call.

We’ll be happy to talk with you, we’d be happy to give you a referral to a local Santa Clarita mediation firm who we do a lot of business with and we can talk to you how we can get the ball rolling with you and make this an easy as possible transition in your life.

divorce661.com, you can go to that website for more information or please give me a call.

I’ll be happy to speak with you – 661-281-0266.

California Divorce Long Term Marriage & Terminating Spousal Support

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California Divorce Long Term Marriage & Terminating Spousal Support

Today we’re talking about reasons your judgment can get rejected when you submit your final order to the court.

And this is regards to spousal support. Well, let me give you, I guess the rule and I’m not a lawyer, not a law firm so we can’t tell you what the laws are. I’m just going to read off what the courts are telling us. I’m just kind of referring to their documents.

The courts look at long term marriage to be anything over ten years. If you have a long term marriage and you submit your final judgment, they only way you can have spousal support waived, and now we are talking about jurisdiction to terminate spousal support is by having an agreement with your spouse.

You’d have to submit a written stipulation to that. If you’re going to do a default judgment and default is where you file for divorce, you served your spouse, there is no response and they’re not involved in the case. If you file a default and you have a long term marriage, you cannot retain or you cannot terminate jurisdiction over spousal support. The courts will retain jurisdiction indefinitely.

We had a client come in and hired us to finish their case, they had tried to submit their documents to court and this is what the court told them. “Except on written agreement of the parties to the contrary (if they have a written agreement, they can do it) or court order terminating the spousal support, the court retains jurisdiction indefinitely in a proceeding for dissolution of marriage or for legal separation of the parties where the marriage is of long duration, ten years or more from the date of marriage to the date of separation. See family code 4336.

What that tells us is, if you file a default there’s not going to be a written agreement, so, you can’t terminate jurisdiction. In fact, we’ve seen several cases returned where they did not approved the judgment where the parties were asking to terminate jurisdiction on long term marriages.

Now, in under ten years or short term marriage if you will. They’re allowing you to terminate jurisdiction.

So, if you want to terminate jurisdiction, you don’t want to ever have to pay for spousal support and you and your spouse agreed. The only way you’re going to be able to do that is by a written agreement. A default case would not be appropriate for you in that matter.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

We specialize in California divorce. You can reach me direct at 661-281-0266.

California Divorce Judgment Rejected New Rules On Defaults

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California Divorce Judgment Rejected New Rules On Defaults

Today, we are talking about an issue that’s come up. A change as it pertains to divorce judgments so this is when you’re submitting your California Divorce Judgments where you talk about one of the issues that are coming up. It’s a new policy with the courts.

I had a client come in who attempted to do their divorce case on their own in California and they had several issues, they had a lot of issues come up and their judgment was rejected and there’s something new that we noticed on this reject sheet.

In that, there were some new policies if you will, regarding the final judgment.

So this is going to be regarding a default judgment.  A default is when you filed, there was no response. You filed a request to enter default, the default was entered and then you submitted your judgment without the other party’s involvement or signature.

What they’re asking that you do now is, you probably recall when you file your initial financial disclosures, you had to file incoming expense and schedule of assets and debts and then you had to file a form FL-141 and indicate you had served your preliminary declaration of disclosure.

That used to be all the courts required, as far as the disclosure is concerned on defaults. Now, what they’re asking for is that you either submit your final declaration of disclosure, which means you have to do everything, your final disclosures all over again or to submit a waiver. And the waiver would be done on the 141 as well.

What you’ll do with that 141 is you’ll just mark the petitioner’s final declaration of disclosure and then you can go down to the bottom, number 4. And there’s a box where you can waive yours and the respondents completion of the final declaration disclosure.

And the reason that you’re going to mark is that because there is no stipulation or in agreement and that the judgment is being entered by default.

So, keep that in mind on the default judgments, it’s apparently a change, a recent change and then we’re talking this is now September 12, 2013.

One more thing that you’ll go on, make sure that you either do your final disclosures or waive the final disclosures.

Tim Blankenship, divorce661.com.

We specialize in California divorce. We talk a lot about judgment, so, keep checking back and for more information and continue watching our videos or give us a call if you’d like some help with your divorce – 661-281-0266.