In this episode, we will tell you how to serve your California divorce petition via certified mail. Serving divorce papers by certified mail is not the normal way of serving California divorce papers. In most cases, you will have to personally serve the divorce papers. But in certain circumstances, you can serve your California divorce papers by certified mail.

When you serve your California divorce case by certified mail, you need to ensure you do “Certified – Return Receipt”. This is because you will need to file the returned certified receipt with the proof of service you need to file to let the court know that your spouse was served.

Service of California divorce papers can only be done when the other party is out of state.

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In this episode, we will discuss what is the best way to list down your property on your California divorce judgment forms.

If you don’t properly describe the property on the California divorce judgment forms, your judgment will be rejected. In addition, if you are filing a default California divorce judgment, you need to describe the property exactly as you did on the Request To Enter Default Property Declarations.

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In this episode, what we will talk about is how to come up with a child custody plan for your California divorce.

Child custody and visitation also known as a parenting plan is included in the divorce when you get divorced.

Child support also will be addressed as well as spousal support. So anything that you can imagine that will have to do with getting a divorce is what’s included in the divorce.

You aren’t just getting a divorce. You also have to address all the assets and debts, all the property, your children and anything else that had to do with your marriage will be addressed in the judgment.

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In this episode, we will talk about California divorce default setting and how and when to file it.

If you are going to file a default California divorce, one where you file and serve your spouse, but your spouse does not file a response or participate at all, you may need to file a form called, “Default Setting” which is form FAM-031.

There is a specific use for the default setting form and certain times you will want to use it.

When you file a default California divorce, there are certain rules such as having to evenly divide community property, ensure there is an order for child support if necessary and other rules.

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In this episode, we will be discussing what is the notice of case review in California divorce cases. The courts never used to really get involved or make sure that your California divorce case is moving forward or not.

However, recently the court started monitoring the progress of California divorce cases to ensure they are moving along properly. The first notice you may received is what is called a Notice Of Case Review for your California divorce case. The issue that sets this notice in motion is for failure to serve your divorce summons and petition within 60 days for filing.

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In this episode, we will be talking about the California divorce form FL-180, specifically what is the court acquired jurisdiction on form FL-180.

When you go to complete your final judgment in your California divorce, you will have to complete form FL-180. This form gives people a lot of trouble, especially regarding what to put where it says, “The Court Acquired Jurisdiction”.

So what goes in this field on the FL-180 where it is asking you when the Court acquired jurisdiction?

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In this episode, we will talk about keeping or changing your last name during divorce.

Here are the things you can do to change your last name while on California divorce. When you are going through a divorce in California, you have the option of asking the judge to change your name back to your former name.

This will help in changing your name with the various state entities such as the Department of Motor Vehicles and Social Security Administration.

There are reasons why a spouse would decide to keep their spouses name or go back to their former name. We will discuss things we have been told when women are deciding on whether or not to keep or change their last name during divorce in this episode.

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In this episode, we will be talking about California divorce paralegal divorce process overview.

I just wanted to give a quick brief overview of the divorce process very topical. I talk in detail, in great detail in a lot of my videos about specific forms and how to do things and processes but I’m just going to give a basic overview of how divorce works in California and this applies anywhere in California.

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In this episode, we will be discussing the California divorce self-help options and divorce tutorials. We will talk about everything you need to know about divorce.

We also want to let everyone know that the California divorce tutorials that we make is now on YouTube. So, you are going through your divorce on your own, you might want to check out our videos on YouTube and hopefully they can help you with your California divorce.

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