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Where to Begin: Getting Divorce Help

It can be very confusing and overwhelming about where to begin once you have made the decision to get a divorce. Today, more than ever, there are many different avenues and options that you have when pursuing divorce help in San Jose or anywhere in California. Let’s look at some of the traditional options, such as hiring an attorney or mediator. A choice that many couples are exploring when they are not able to reach an agreement is mediation. In mediation, a trained and licensed mediator, who many times is an actual attorney, will sit down with the couple to discuss coming up with a mutual agreement that addresses the issues in the case such as child custody, child and spousal support, and the division of assets and debts. The typical difference between hiring a mediator versus an attorney who represents only one spouse, is a mediator is working together

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Uncontested Divorce Without an Attorney

Are you looking for someone to help you with your uncontested divorce in San Jose or Santa Clara, San Mateo, or San Benito Counties? People looking for uncontested divorce help usually turn to divorce attorneys for help in this area, but often these attorneys typically use a paralegal to prepare the actual paperwork for the uncontested divorce. Why use an attorney then? You don’t have to. Interestingly enough, in California, you can actually prepare your own divorce paperwork, as there is no requirement to hire a divorce attorney to prepare your uncontested divorce. This is why using a legal document assistant (LDA) or legal document service may be a viable, less expensive, alternative to using a divorce attorney to prepare and file your uncontested divorce paperwork. Of course, if you have a complicated case or are not in agreement with your spouse, an experienced family law attorney may be a better

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Do you need legal help in San Jose?

Our service can provide legal help in San Jose for people who need help with preparing and filing their divorce or legal separation case.  While we cannot give legal advice, we can help to ensure that  your paperwork is prepared correctly and processed through the court as efficiently as possible.  Everyone needs legal help now and then, and our service is here to help.  If you are in need of legal help for your divorce or legal separation in San Jose (Santa Clara County), San Mateo or San Benito Counties we would appreciate the opportunity to speak with you about how our service can help you.  If you are needing divorce help, please feel free to contact us today to see if our service is a good fit for your divorce situation. We offer a free consultation with no obligation, so contact us today at 408.885.9795 or by email at: info@priorityonelegal.com. Can

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Divorce Procedures in San Jose

Are you looking for someone to help you prepare your divorce paperwork in San Jose? Priority One Legal Document Services, Inc has been helping clients prepare and file their divorce and legal separation paperwork here in San Jose and other various counties for over 30 years.  We are very experienced, and ethical, provide upfront fee quotes and have been in the same location for over 30 years assisting our clients to prepare their divorce paperwork here in San Jose (Santa Clara County), as well as in San Benito and San Mateo Counties. How should you choose a service to do your divorce paperwork? You should start by reading about the legal service you are considering. Is the service licensed and bonded? Do they provide a quality and professional service from the beginning to the end of your case? Another important question to ask is how long they have they been preparing divorce

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Sources of Divorce Support and Advice

When going through a divorce, people will often seek support and advice from friends, family, counselors, and members of their church. Getting support during this time is very common and important, since going through a divorce can be a very difficult experience. Receiving continued support and advice throughout the processing of a divorce can help an individual through the process. Many times, even after the divorce is complete, people will continue to seek advice to help them in the process of moving forward and adjusting to the many changes they will now face with regards to their new living arrangements, financial status, and in helping children to adjust.  This emotional support is crucial in the healing process, but should not be considered “legal advice”, unless it is received from a family law attorney. Getting emotional support from friends and family can be very helpful for people as getting a divorce;

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Are you considering hiring a divorce attorney to do your divorce?

You can certainly hire a divorce attorney to prepare your divorce paperwork, but you might not actually need to. Have you ever considered doing the divorce yourself with the assistance of a professional legal document preparation service? A Legal Document Assistant (LDA) is a person who can help in-pro-per (self-represented) clients prepare and file their divorce paperwork, without the assistance of an attorney. While a Legal Document Assistant (LDA) cannot give legal advice, individuals who know what they want with regards to the details of their divorce action can direct the Legal Document Assistant in how they want their divorce handled. In turn, the Legal Document Assistant can then draft their divorce documents based on the client’s specific requests and direction. Since our clients are in full agreement to work together to reach an agreement on what terms and divisions work best for them with regards to child custody, child

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Other advantages to using a Legal Document Assistant (LDA) as opposed to a divorce attorney for my divorce?

Most attorneys will require a hefty retainer to start your case which will only cover up to a certain number of hours at their given hourly rate.  After this retainer has been used up, which can happen quite quickly in divorce cases, you will then be billed hourly for all added time expended on your case.  This will result in monthly bills that may often continue, even after your case has been completed. Many legal document preparation services will quote a flat fee for their work, which means you will also not be charged for every email, phone call and correspondence, as you would if you hired an attorney without a flat fee contract. Additionally, many of our clients have reported that by using a service like ours, they actually minimized the emotions that can sometimes come into play when an attorney is involved. If you do choose to use

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Do you need divorce help?

Priority One Legal Document Services, Inc. can offer you divorce help if you live here in San Jose (Santa Clara County), San Mateo or San Benito Counties. We have been helping people prepare and file their divorce paperwork for over thirty years now. It is important that when you are looking for divorce help that you work with a very experienced service.  We specialize in assisting with divorce help and legal separation help as we believe that a legal document service should focus in one area of law, so that they have a deeper knowledge and experience allowing them to properly assist their clients with the divorce and legal separation cases. We work with all different types of people who need divorce help, from executives here in the Silicon Valley, to nurses, firefighters, police officers, military personnel, and the average blue-collar worker. We treat all of our clients equally- with respect and

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Do you need help with your divorce paperwork in San Jose, Santa Clara, San Mateo or San Benito Counties?

All counties are different in California as to what documents they require that your file and how you process a divorce case in their specific county.  You want to make sure that you work with a service that is very familiar with the county that you will need to file your divorce in. We currently have chosen to assist in only three counties here in California- Santa Clara, San Mateo and San Benito Counties.  By focusing solely in these three counties, it allows us to work very closely with these counties, so that we understand specifically how these counties work and what they require in order to process our clients’ cases as efficiently as possible.  As the courts often change their procedures and requirements, working with a service familiar with the county you must file in is imperative. Priority One Legal Document Services, Inc. is centrally located in in San

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How Fast is a “Quick” Divorce in California?

We should first start with the definition of a ‘quick’ divorce. In California, there is a mandatory waiting period of 6 months and 1 day from the time your divorce paperwork is filed and either served on your spouse or your spouse files a response to the divorce by filing the appropriate documentation with the court.  Additionally, all required documentation must be submitted to the court and be done accurately before your divorce can be finalized.  If your documentation is rejected for any reason, the termination date for your divorce could take longer than the mandatory time frame. Due to the mandated waiting period in California, the best way to get a quick divorce is to start the process immediately with a professional service and to be in full agreement with your spouse. The sooner you begin the process and do so amicably with your spouse, the sooner you can get a

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