Initial Marital Settlement Agreement Template Made Easy

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welcome to free divorce calm this is Christina this is Edie this video is for those people that have purchased the marital settlement agreement template and are going to use the template to draft their divorce judgment before you start drafting your marital settlement agreement there's some information we want to give you marital settlement agreements must be notarized after you have drafted your agreement and both parties have carefully reviewed it take the agreement to a notary sign the marital settlement agreement and then have the notary notarize both of your signatures notaries charge $15 per signature the court will not accept your signed marital settlement agreement unless both parties signatures are notarized if you have minor children you should attach to your marital settlement agreement a copy of the child support computer calculation you use to arrive at the child support number many courts insist that the computer child support calculation showing the statutory guidelines support number be attached to the marital settlement agreement if you and your spouse are agreeing to a child support amount that is different than the statutory guideline number you should still attached to your marital settlement agreement a copy of the computer printout that shows the statutory guidelines out support amount as we mentioned in an earlier video there are 58 counties in California in each county has different local rules a few counties have a local rule that even if you have a marital settlement agreement with all the required language for a proper child custody order and a proper child support order you will still have to attach to your divorce judgment an FL 341 is the basic child custody Judicial Council form and an FL 342 which is the basic child support Judicial Council form not many counties have this rule about attaching the FL 341 and FL 342 but if you do you can ask the family law facilitator for your County if you're required to attach the FL 341 and FL 342 you judgment if you have a marital settlement agreement in the alternative you can just submit your judgment without the FL 341 and without the FL 342 if you live in one of the few counties that require these two additional forms the court will return to judgment to you with instructions to include these forms there are certain provisions that must be included in all marital settlement agreements if the agreement contains provisions for child custody when you review our sample child custody provisions that are set forth in our marital settlement agreement template they start with a section entitled mandatory provisions do not delete any of these mandatory child customs from your marital settlement agreement there are also certain mandatory provisions that must be included in your marital settlement agreement if your agreement includes child support again our sample child support provisions begin with a section entitled mandatory provisions do not delete any of these mandatory child support provisions from your marital settlement...