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so when
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somebody files for divorce in california
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i call this divorce 101 in california
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it’s like any other lawsuit you have to
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file certain paperwork you have to file
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the petition for divorce
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you have to file certain financial
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disclosures
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it doesn’t matter if you make 10 a month
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or if you make 10 million dollars a
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month everybody does it the same way
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and then you start the process of how
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we’re going to divide the assets
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there are separate property assets which
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are assets that were acquired
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prior to marriage or after data
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separation
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or if they were acquired during the
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marriage from an inheritance or a gift
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those are considered separate property
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everything else is community property
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it was acquired during the marriage
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through income
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debts anything that was acquired during
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the marriage
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and then we figure out how to split
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those up that’s the process
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at the end of the day no matter how long
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it takes if it takes two months to
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figure all of that out you still can’t
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be divorced in california until there’s
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a six month waiting period
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from the time that the person who files
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the divorce
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serves the person who is being served
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the divorce so from the service date
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until you can legally be single again
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there’s a six month waiting period
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so that’s sort of like the 101 of
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divorce and then
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everybody else has their own
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complexities of of their own
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situation but those are the basics