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If you
are thnking
about purchasing an online software do it yourself forms service (which actually are not
that much of a price savings as compared to my online system's flat attorney fees!), well you should: THINK AGAIN! and listen to this
national News broadcast regarding
washington divorce online do it yourself software scheme, and the harm caused by them according to the Attorney General's investigation.
DIVORCE FORMS: If you have no kids or property to worry about, or are very poor and/or your time is not very valuable to you,
it might be worthwhile to use the forms at the bottom of the page. Otherwise please read the
disclaimers. Here is just one of my fomer clients who had the "privilege" of coming to me and paying $3,000 in
attorney fees to correct a case she and her husband wanted to save money on:
first motion to correct errors. The errors in her documents were not discovered until years after the fact:
the ex-husband's new spouse "inspired" a new vision of their original, hasty but cheap divorce documents. The original Court gladly signed
those first documents because they we're correct in form and I would have signed them if I was the Judge as well. However, given the custody arrangment,
there was no accounting within the original support Order for the shared custody both mother and father believed they would be pursuing in the best
interests of the children. No automatic adjustments or esclator clauses meant that a support debt slowly and silently accumulated
with neither of them knowing about it. (By the way we won the case and I saved my client $17,934. But not after she already
paid me over $3,000 in attorney fees for a 100 page motion and had had her credit ruined. NO LIABILITY IS TAKEN FOR YOUR BEING YOUR
OWN DO IT YOURSELF DIVORCE ATTORNEY WITH OUR WA DIVORCE COURT FORMS.
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Remember: No matter how well you and your soon to be "ex" get along now, you can't trust either future spouses or
future circumstances which could affect your spouse's behavior.
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My own documents are drawn up correctly given your real-estate, property, child-support and other aspects of your
legal agreement. The one's I provide here are NOT. If you choose to do it alone, you must modify the language. Until that
happens they are not going to do what you need. OUR LAW OFFICE IS NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY USE OF THE FORMS LISTED AT THE
BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE. PLEASE REVIEW THESE WARNINGS PRIOR TO USE.
If you file and handle your case yourself you must set a time for a court hearing as a "pro se" party. If you absolutely have no economic means your fumbling
will probably just result in an additional trip to the courthouse after being a little embarrased in front of the 20 other
couples who are sitting in the back of the courtroom waiting for their turn. If you have no property or kids to divide it gets much
less likely you will leave something out or have provisions which are contradictory. However, where child-support or real-estate is at stake there are special risks
to creating your own documents. Aside from drafting something that does not divide property in a fully enforceable or correct way,
there is a chance that the Court WILL sign your documents despite errors without questioning the import of certain provisions. The result is you sign away
what should have been your right and your spouse refuses to sign corrected documents after the fact. YOUR SPOUSE WILL NOT
HAVE TO HONOR WHAT THE TWO OF YOU ORIGINALLY INTENDED THE DOCUMENTS TO MEAN UNTIL YOU FILE COSTLY "MOTIONS TO REOPEN".
Your case will have been considered finished and you then face an uphill battle get the Court to "reopen" or "vacate" what
was supposed to be your "Final Decree of Dissolution".
The Court will never stop
you and "check" the amount you have agreed on for maintenance or property to make sure it is "fair". If you're lucky, you'll be sent back to
try again. The language and procedural format required to conclude a WA state divorce
is quite archaic and rather nonsensical when viewed from the standpoint of an agreed divorce these days.
In fact, our Northwest variant (involving "findings", petitions, decrees: when there is not much to find and decree about at all)
still uses language like "COMES Now, so an so, by and through such and such, and requests the Honorable
Court...blah blah".
The antiquated procedure and language results in a big headache from the standpoint of most divorces these days; including those involving property. In fact, the language
of the pleadings in some places literally mirror the same phrases pecked out by typewriter 70-80 years ago by attorneys when divorce
was much more rare and even a serious social event for the parties involved.
Much of the pleading and procedure
remains the same as it was 80 years ago. Divorce was rare, and culturally less acceptable.
The substantial majority of my work involves not agreed divorces but contested litigation. However,
as a 12 yr. old programmer of fun games on my TI-99 which my parents bought me, I
love what the web has done to this world. So, creating what I can easily defend as the best
online agreed software processing system was a fun challenge. And it is completed as to my
law office. (It may well be marketable, but the sad-fact is divorce formas procedure and
filing is so laden with local state practice to make it a very limited market. If you
are thnking
about purchasing an online software do it yourself service (which actually are not
that much of a price savings than my own!): THINK AGAIN! and listen to this
News broadcast regarding washington divorce online software systems the hurt victims who use those systems.
Getting a divorce was a major social "event" regardless
of the circumstances. The presumptions of our legal inheritance were clear: you had to show why you were etitled to it, deal at length with any possible
issue that could arise on an issue by issue basis, and in three separate documents!
And your reasons had better be good! Of course we ignore much of the fluff in most cases now: but you still have to comply and file documents in order and
hit on all issues correctly.
Everyone did it that way before, so we would not dare to consider changing!
You still have to testify to the Court about all sorts of stuff nowadays even where: you have a childless marriage of 9 months; and nary one red cent did the parties,
they commingle. You can hire me right now and forget about it by quickly reading here about my process
and then purchasing with your credit card or PayPal acccount
at the Fees page.
The cash-value of these observations is this: I don't know why anyone would do it themselves
in this day and age when most can in fact afford to hire an attorney to just do it for them. And this is especially so where you have a
decent income and might have child-support or property at issue. I wrote my own software to streamline the process, and reduce
attorney time spent on the case to only what is absolutely necessary. The result is $445-350 flat fees for agreed cases plus the filing fee.
I would challenge you to find an attorney who truly has a system that can beat mine on either price or quality. There really are none. The
do-it-yourself online software systems out there were all built in India and mess your case up in hilarious ways.
Below is a list of commonly used forms in standard practice for most divorce lawyers in Washington State. Of Course much
of my legal analysis and pleadings will not be below for proprietary reasons. Yet, some of my friends are surprised at how
much I divulge below: there is case law and a motion on how to Nix back support where the other spouse did not have the child
but is trying to unfairly collect on a back child support debt. That situation is common: DSHS helping one parent go for child
support arrears when the child was in fact living (residing) with the other parent; or spent substantial overnights in the other
parent's household. I don't advise you to do your divorce or any contested divorce motion alone, but if you have no money
I wish you the best of luch and that the fairness we all hope for is on your side. What is provided below may fit your situations perfectly,
or it may not: You're on your own.
Adams County Divorce Forms
Asotin County Divorce Forms
Benton County Divorce Forms
Chelan County Divorce Forms
Clallam County Divorce Forms
Clark County Divorce Forms
Columbia County Divorce Forms
Cowlitz County Divorce Forms
Douglas County Divorce Forms
Ferry County Divorce Forms
Franklin County Divorce Forms
Garfield County Divorce Forms
Grant County Divorce Forms
Grays Harbor County Divorce Forms
Island County Divorce Forms
Jefferson County Divorce Forms
King County Divorce Forms
Kitsap County Divorce Forms
Kittitas County Divorce Forms
Klickitat County Divorce Forms
Lewis County Divorce Forms
Lincoln County Divorce Forms
Mason County Divorce Forms
Okanogan County Divorce Forms
Pacific County Divorce Forms
Pend Oreille County Divorce Forms
Pierce County Divorce Forms
San Juan County Divorce Forms
Skagit County Divorce Forms
Skamania County Divorce Forms
Snohomish County Divorce Forms
Spokane County Divorce Forms
Stevens County Divorce Forms
Thurston County Divorce Forms
Wahkiakum County Divorce Forms
Walla Walla County Divorce Forms
Whatcom County Divorce Forms
Whitman County Divorce Forms
Yakima County Divorce Forms
Most basic questions about divorce are answered here at the discussion board.
Also, every software system I have seen has been a nuisance but I am
partaking in a growing project on how to file a do it yourself Washington divorce.
If I am not available you can try the list of experienced attorneys here.
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Cities Served For Agreed Divorces Span All WA city and county regions such as Spokane, Yakima, Everett, Bellingham, Bellevue, Burien, Battleground,
Tacoma, Seattle, Bellevue and Bothell. To serve as your child custody attorney, or for contested divorce matters such as changing Washington State
Child support orders, parenting plan trial or litigation hearings, contempt for denial of visitation or custody rights, in such cases nomally
I take them in the Seattle, Bellevue, and Everett to Tacoma corridor. But I make more than a few exceptions and as of 1/1/2009 have litigation cases
in a few cities such as Vancouver, WA and even Spokane pending.
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