Getting a Divorce in Southern California? Organize This Info Now!
If you are getting divorced in Orange County, California you'll need to prepare relevant information for your first meeting with your attorney. Your Attorney will likely have you fill out a form and go over it with you. This article will give you an idea of the sorts of documentation and information that you should bring to your first consultation. Also included below is a link to a Judicial Council Form provided by the Superior Court of Orange County that many attorneys use for just this purpose.
It would be wise to prepare, organize and bring the following information:
Personal: Dates of birth, marriage,
Property: Residence- lease or own (lease amount). If owner: value of home; mortgage payment, source of purchase funds, source of mortgage payments. Other Real Property. Life Insurance. Furniture
Obligations: debts- including date incurred, purpose, due date, and terms of repayment.
income: here you include your employer, your spouse's employer, type of occupation amount of monthly income, your withholdings, and if you currently are unemployed make sure you include an explanation of why, and lastly include the number of exemptions.
liquid assets: here you want to include for example –cash, stocks, bonds, life insurance and checking accounts.
Monthly expenses: there is still laundry list of information contained in this section which you can access at the link below. Make sure you visit this and view the list as it contains many items.
If you have this information at your disposal and you have filled out the linked form, you will save your attorney time which will save you money. It follows that the more information you have prepared and organized the less time you are turning will have to spend compiling and organizing and preparing your case.