ABOUT KERN LEGAL DOCUMENT ASSISTANCE

Kern Legal Document Assistance offers the very best services in our field. We never settle for second best, and always have your satisfaction as our top priority. It’s who we are, and we are proud of it. 

Who We Are

We love what we do and it shows. With more than 35 years of experience in the field, we know our industry like the back of our hands. There’s no challenge too big or too small, and we dedicate our utmost energy to every project we take on.

What We Do & How We Can Help
We provide professional and confidential legal document preparation when and where you need it. We will prepare, make copies and file your documents, saving time and money. We respect client's privacy. Your confidentiality is of the utmost importance.

What is a Legal Document Assistant (LDA)?
Legal Document Assistants are non-attorneys authorized to assist Self-Help (Pro Per) litigants with the completion of legal documentation. LDAs cannot represent anyone in court, we cannot provide advice about legal rights or the law, nor can LDAs select legal forms. Only an attorney can provide legal advise tailored for your specific case. Fortunately, Court websites have document packets with most commonly used legal documents free to download.

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

I can type or otherwise complete, at your specific direction, legal documents that you have selected. I can provide you general published factual legal information that has been written or approved by an attorney, to help you represent yourself. I can provide you published legal documents. I can file and serve legal forms and documents as you specifically direct.
 
These are the only kinds of services that I can perform for you.  If you need additional services, then you require the services of an attorney.
 
Kinds of services that I cannot perform for you:
I cannot provide you any self-help service unless you are representing yourself in a legal matter and the self-help service relates to that legal matter.
 
I cannot engage in the practice of law. This means that I cannot give you any kind of advice, explanation, opinion or recommendation about possible legal rights, remedies, defenses, strategies or options that you may have. I cannot give you any advice, explanation, opinion or recommendation regarding selection of forms.

Legal Document Assistant Registration
Legal Document Assistants (LDAs) are bound to practice according to Bus. & Prof. Code § 6400, et seq. I am registered and bonded in the County of Kern as a Legal Document Assistant. Kern County LDA Registration No. 171, which expires 10/09/2023.
Document Preparation:
​Grant Deeds
Interspousal Transfer Deeds
Dissolution (Divorce) Petitions & Responses
UPA Paternity Petitions & Responses
DVPA and Civil Harassment Restraining Orders
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 Declarations of Disclosure
Findings and Orders After Hearings
​Marital Settlement Agreements
Family Law Judgments
Case Dismissals
Small Claims - Plaintiff's Claim and Order/Defendant's Claim and Order
Letters of Consent For Travel of Minor Child
Guardianships
Step-Parent Adoptions

And More...

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