099: I Started My California Divorce And Never Finished It

In this episode, we’re talking about for those folks who have started their divorce and never finish.

That’s the service we provide and something we can help you fix. We’re continuing to get lots and lots of folks who started their divorce either months, years, or decades ago. Honestly, I guess the oldest one we did was 18 years ago, they filed and never finished their case.

But, that is the service we provide. We can essentially pick up where you left off and wrap things up for you.

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098: How To Submit Default California Divorce Judgment With Spousal Support

In this episode, I want to talk to you about something interesting, something that happened this week with a client of ours. This is in regards to a default judgment with spousal support.

We had a client come in several months ago wanted to file for a divorce who’s supposed to be amicable and as things progressed, it turn out to be not so amicable. Not that the other party is contesting anything but they didn’t want to participate in the divorce at all.

The party that we were working with was unemployed and the other party, her spouse was employed so we wanted to get her some spousal support because they had been married for quite some time.

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097: How To Get Your California Divorce Done Right The First Time

In this episode, we are talking about getting your divorce done right the first time.

And this week we’ve been talking all about pro pers and people representing themselves, those of you deciding, should I file my own case, should I try and do the paperwork and a lot of people will call and say “Tim, I’ve tried to file the paperwork or I started the paperwork, I printed it out.”

So, if you’re considering this, you’re going to go through that process. Some people will simply say, I’m not going to deal with this. I want to get it done right the first time.

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096: How To File California Divorce Documents By Mail

In this episode, we’re talking about something very simple, something that people do wrong quite a bit and this is how to submit your document to the court.

Anything that you file with the court, you’re going to want to have an original, with original signatures. This would be, obviously your initial filing paper. Summon and petition or the declaration regarding service of your disclosures and of course the judgment.

Everything you submit needs to be submitted with an original which is hole punched to the top and at least one copy and more importantly, if you’re filing your documents by mail which you can do. You don’t have to go to court every time.

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095: How To Download IRS Tax Returns Online

In this episode, we’re talking about how you can now get your IRS tax Returns online and that may be important if you’re going through divorce in California at least.

Recently they have instituted the need to exchange tax returns. That’s one reason if you don’t have them or you don’t have copies or you’ve lost them. You can now get copies of them online and I’m going to share with you the IRS link to do that.

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094: How California Divorce Attorney Retainers Work

In this episode, we’re talking about attorney retainers as it pertains to Divorce.

So if you’re going to hire a Divorce attorney in California for your Divorce case, I want you to know how the retainer process works because we’ve had clients who have retained attorneys prior to finding or learning of our service.

And they did not understand how the retainer service work. And they ended up spending a lot more money than they anticipated or the money they had placed on retainer they thought it was going to take care of their entire case.

And unfortunately it didn’t get them very far at all.

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Number 1 Santa Clarita Divorce Firm On YELP!

We are the number one divorce paralegal firm in Yelp.  In fact, we are the number one divorce firm in Santa Clarita among all attorneys and paralegals in Santa Clarita.

We have been fortunate to have great clients in Santa Clarita and throughout California who are going through divorce and who have left us great reviews. We work really hard to provide a great divorce service in Santa Clarita and think the reviews speak for themselves.

When going through a divorce in Santa Clarita, you have to make sure you choose a divorce firm that understands the divorce process and can get you through your divorce regardless of what happens.

What happens in this industry is that there are people out there offering divorce services in Santa Clarita that are not licensed to do divorce cases or even work directly with the public to help people with their divorce.

This is not so much a problem in Santa Clarita as it is in other cities in Los Angeles County.  You have to be registered and bonded to assist folks with divorce as an LDA or Legal Document Assistant.  While the industry is regulated, there is not much policing of those folks who offer divorce services in Santa Clarita.

We are a full service divorce paralegal firm (LDA) in Santa Clarita, CA and serve not only the city of Santa Clarita but all of Los Angeles County and California.  Because we specialize in only divorce in California, we have become the go-to company that people turn to when they are looking for an affordable divorce service.

We are the only Santa Clarita Divorce Paralegal firm in Santa Clarita that is licensed and bonded to work with clients going through divorce in Santa Clarita.  We are fortunate to be the leader in filing divorce cases in Santa Clarita and have a good reputation in our community.

We have all 5 star reviews on all of our review sites, including Yelp and are thankful to our clients who have stepped up and completed reviees on Yelp for us.

We know that a lot of people turn to Yelp, no so much to find us, as our blogs and videos take care of that, but they turn to Yelp to do research on us and make sure we are a good fit for them and that the community has given us positve reviews.

 

093: Helping Deployed Service Members With California Divorce

In this episode, we will talk about how we were able to help our deployed members with their California divorce.

I just to talk about our service to our military folks. I’ve done a video or two in the past and I think its being seen by our military folks who are going through divorce.

I had a call yesterday and it was a sailor in the Navy obviously, overseas, deployed on a ship and he lives in San Diego of course as many as our California Naval personnel do.

I didn’t get where he was at the ocean, I’m sure it was something he don’t want to talk about anyways or what the ship he was on.

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092: Having Trouble With Filing Your Own California Divorce

In this episode, I wanted to talk to the folks of California who have already filed their Divorce case and are having trouble getting their Divorce finished.

My name is Tim Blankenship. We have a licensed and bonded Legal Document Preparation Firm.

We specialize in Divorce all throughout California. And we get lots of calls as new clients calling us who haven’t started their Divorce and they want us to start from the very beginning.

And handle their Divorce case from start to finish. But we also get a lot of calls where people have started their Divorce on their own.

And if you have done that then this podcast is for you. What we find is a lot of people want to save money.

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091: Getting Married Young Results In Higher Divorce Rates

In this episode, we’re talking about a new study that was done. And the study was done by the University of North Carolina.

And this study kind of change what the beliefs were about one of the leading causes of Divorce.

Now what this article went in to and what this study had to do with is finding out and learning more about does cohabitating or just living together with your soon to be spouse have anything to do with Divorce.

And I think it was a common held belief that in the past over the last few decades that if you live together prior to marriage that, that was one of the leading causes of Divorce or it was a cause of Divorce.

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