What We Do & How We Can Help
We provide professional and confidential legal document preparation when and where you need it. Assisting with your legal matter from start to finish or on an as needed basis. We will prepare, assemble, make necessary copies, serve the other party by mail and file your documents. Save time and money. Your confidentiality is of the utmost importance.

What is a Legal Document Assistant?

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Preparation Services:​

• Dissolution (Divorce) Petitions & Responses
• UPA Paternity Petitions & Responses
• Discovery Requests & Responses
• Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) Answers
• Request for Order (Family Law Motions)
• Income and Expense Declarations (I&E)
• Preliminary and Final Disclosures
• Findings and Orders After Hearings
• ​Marital Settlement Agreements
• Family Law Judgments
• Case Dismissals
• And More...​

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What is a Legal Document Assistant (LDA)?
Formerly known as Independent Paralegals, Legal Document Assistants (LDA)are non-attorneys legal professionals authorized to assist Self-Help (Pro Per) litigants with the preparation of legal documentation.

How to work with a Legal Document Assistant (LDA)?
Working with a LDA is a collaborative process. It is important to understand that the legal process is a process which can be complicated and takes time. The LDA can help clients as they navigate the legal procedure set for by the court for their case.

• Clients provide instructions on what they want to file and what information to include.
• The LDA will draft the draft and assemble the documents then present the draft documents.
• Clients corrects or approves the drafts.
• The LDA will make the final revisions, if necessary then the client signs.
• The document printed and submitted to the court for filings.
• When appropriate, the client pays third party fees such as court filings fees, publication fees, recording fees, etc.   

The best way to utilize LDA services is in tandem with advice from a limited-scope lawyer, a consulting attorney, or using the court's self-help faciliatory for guidance. Every case is different, so it's important to develop a legal strategy that's right for your case. Clients are most successful when they know their rights and the law, then contract an LDA to prepare their documents. 

Professional Tip: Each court, clerk, and judge has their preferences. For the most part, the these preferences are published in the court's local rules or under the Self-Help section on the court's website, but not always. The good news is if filings are returned the court will provide a return letter with the reason for the rejection and suggested revisions. Insider secret, the court is run by humans who make mistakes too.

What Are Self-Help Services?
Kinds of services that a Legal Document Assistant (LDA) can perform for you:
We can perform the following self-help services for you in connection with a legal matter in which you are representing yourself:

• We can type or otherwise complete, as you specifically direct, legal documents that you have selected;
• We can provide you general published factual legal information that has been written or approved by an attorney, to help you represent yourself;
• We can provide you published legal documents;
• We can file and serve legal forms and documents as you specifically direct;
• We can work in conjunction with your lawyer to provide unbundled legal services. ​

 
These are the only kinds of services that Legal Document Assistants can perform for you.  If you need additional services are needed beyond the scope of services we are able to provide, we can refer you to  an attorney.
 
Kinds of services that an Legal Document Assistants (LDAs) cannot perform for you:
LDAs cannot represent anyone in court, cannot provide advice about legal rights or the law, nor can LDAs select legal forms. Fortunately, Court websites have document packets with most commonly used legal documents free to download. Only an attorney can provide legal advice.

Services are exclusively for Pro Per litigants representing who are themselves in a legal matter and the self-help service relates to that legal matter. 
 
This firm cannot and will not engage in the practice of law.
This means that we cannot give you any kind of advice, explanation, opinion or recommendation about possible legal rights, remedies, defenses, strategies or options that you may have. We cannot give you any advice, explanation, opinion or recommendation regarding selection of forms.

It can be difficult deciphering what legal advice is. Clients regularly ask legal questions not understanding they are putting the LDA in a compromising position. 
Questions related to:

• What you should do;
• What your options are;
• What's legally required of you;
• What are your legal obligations;
• What are the other party's legal obligations;
• If a law/procedure is applicable to your case;
• Any explanations of your rights
• Any explanation of the law;

are considered legal advice and should be discussed with an attorney. ​

Legal Document Assistant Registration
Legal Document Assistants (LDAs) are bounded to practice according to Bus. & Prof. Code § 6400, et seq. We must publish our registration information. Registration information listed below. Scroll down.