I don’t know if people’s ears are burning or what, but today I have taken 2 calls already where people have filed for divorce and never finished their divorce case in California.  I literally just finished an article on this very topic, but have written several articles on the subject as well as recorded video and radio shows about this.

While we have talked about not finishing your divorce case, I was asked a question today that was phrased a little different.  This person wanted to know if it is possible to get married before the divorce is finalized. (or in this case not even filed yet)

So here is how I answered this question.  I would never tell someone that it is alright to get married when still married, but what i said was that we have filed so many divorce cases in California where the folks never finished their divorce case and got remarried and even had children and nothing negative happened to them and nothing stopped them from getting married.

This persons reasoning for getting remarried was a valid one so the only issue would be if they were personally okay with getting married despite not being divorced.

As far as the law is concerned, nothing negative will happen.  This is one of those situations where the new husband could say that he wants the marriage annulled because he didn’t know that the spouse was already married under the “Preexisting Marriage” reason for having the marriage annulled.  But if the new husband is in agreement with this, there obviously isn’t going to be this problem.

If you find yourself already married, or in a situation where you thought you were already divorced and later learned you are not, don’t freak out.  We can help you get your original divorce finalized.

Give us a call at 661-281-0266 and we will answer your questions and get everything figured out for you.

 

We get these calls all too often.  “Tim, I filed for divorce years ago and just found out my divorce was never finalized!”  What’s worse is that many of these folks have already gotten remarried.

While I know this is not something you want to find out, there is something that you can do about it.  The first thing I would recommend you do is to call us so we can look at your California divorce online summary and see what is going on as far as what documents have been filed.

We would then either have you send us what documents you have (if any) or order the filed documents from the court directly.

What we generally have to do is to take a look at what has been filed so we know what we need to complete to finalize your divorce case.  We also will need to review all divorce documents that were previously filed so we could make sure they were completed correctly and make any corrections as necessary.

What normally happens is that people file for divorce, do some, but not all of the paperwork and because the court never contacts them they figure their divorce is complete.

Here is what I have to say about that. Your divorce is not complete until you get the final divorce papers signed by the judge and it indicates a specific date your divorce will be finalized.

This article and podcast was created due to receiving yet another call from someone asking for our help to complete their divorce case who thought their divorce was finalized more than 10 years ago.

If you are going to file for divorce in California please call us to help you with your divorce.  We can help you from the very beginning or pick up where you left off in your California divorce.

We provide a full service divorce anywhere in California.