Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
To begin your life once again from the ruins is not the easy easy deal. We can fight for our live thousand times but finally we understand that love is terminated. The end. The future step is a divorce. Painful, sometimes so painful that you cannot endure it. You survive just because you have to do it, for the sake of your parents, friends, children, and at least for the sake of yourself. You are unique person in the world, so you have to live further in spite of all the problems and misfortunes. You HAVE TO. I have divorced several times, and my livo, life, and my heart were broken several times. I faced different types of divorces, and I have an experience in such a question. I would like to tell you some tips of how to be divorced with the fewest efforts from your side. Let me begin my small guide)!
Beginning of the Divorce
To begin the divorce procedure, you have to decide which type of the divorce you are involved into. It can be the Uncontested divorce, the Contested Divorce, the Default Divorce, the Dissolution of the marriage, etc. All the terms and prices for all the divorce types are different, so you have to choose yours in advance. When you choose the type of the divorce process, you had better begin to file for divorce. It is a rather complicated process requiring your highest responsibility and attention. There are several types of filing for divorce:
- You can prepare documents with the help of the attorney
- You can prepare your documents on your own
- You can use the online preparation service
Now I would like to distinguish these means of the dealing with the documents. First type of the preparation of the documents is to hire the lawyer to deal with your papers and forms. It is a rather expensive way of the service, because your lawyer will ask for the fee that equals $500 for hour. A well-experienced attorney will ask for even a higher price, so it is a bit money consuming. With my ex-husband we did not use this type of help because it looks like really costly. You have no warrant that your papers will be in ideal state but you pay a huge sum of money to a person you simply speak the first time in your life. So, if you have money and you do not think about your expenses, this way is pretty good especially for you, if you cannot afford such a filing for the divorce, just omit it. The second variant of the preparation of the documents is self-preparation. To file with the court consumes not only time and money but also skills and experience in such a complex process., You should definitely know, which documents you have to deal with, how to fill them in, how many copies you need to be sure that you did everything and you do not need to find a copy machine to make some extra copies. If you divorce for the first time, you have no guarantee that your spouse or you will do everything correctly, so if you fail, you will wait to reschedule your case in the Superior Court. It is also a risky deal. You can be in minus just because you are inattentive person. Like me)! So, the conclusion is that you are sure in yourself and your knowledge, you can try to fill in the documents with bo help aside, but if you are hesitating whether to do it or not, you had better forget this idea the sooner the better. Finally, the third way of the preparation of the divorce is to do everything online. It means that you find a reliable online preparation service, order the documents for your case, pay the stable fee for the dealing with your papers and forms, wait for some time, approximately for 1-3 days, get the filled documents to your post or email, as a rule, all the documents are printable, and download them. You can print the papers whenever you want, and it is a big advantage of the whole deal. I used with my ex-husband exactly this service, and we were greatly impressed with the high quality, a well-done customer support service, and the huge responsibility of the guys making our documents. It was a pleasure that we spent just $139 with no hidden fees, extra prices, etc. We found this service by chance, so we were happy enough with it. The preparation of the documents took 1 day. We had an Uncontested Divorce, so it was a standard procedure.
Divorce Filing Fees in California
To tell you the truth, the fees for the court are one more big trouble for the divorcing couple. The courts can vary their prices, moreover the fees can also vary in the counties, so you should firstly get known about your court fee and then file with the court. The approximate filing fee in California fluctuates from $350-500. It should be checked twice, believe me!
Serving Your Spouse with Divorce Papers
When you serve your spouse with all the divorce papers, you need to make at least 3 copies of each document and send them to your spouse by post, the Certified email or to deliver them by yourself. California rules allow to serve your spouse with the forms and documents by yourself. After serving your spouse, you have a 30-days term to get the already signed papers back. If your spouse disagrees to sign the divorce documents,
Your case is a Default one, so you need extra time for preparing additional documents and ask the Superior Court to allow you to get a Divorce Decree without the agreement of your spouse.
Going to the Superior Court
When you served your spouse with the documents, got a result, and you are ready to continue the process, you should schedule the court hearing. In several cases, if your divorce is an Uncontested one, you can omit going to the court. Everything depends on the complicity of your divorce process.
Well, summing up all the information above, I would like to tell you once again that if you decided to change your life, you should immediately do it with no hesitations. It is only your life, and nobody is entitled to tell you what to do!
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