Divorce Document Assistance

Specialties

Divorce Document Assistance offers legal document preparation services by a licensed and bonded Legal Document Assistant («LDA»). We provide legal services to small businesses and members of the public who have chosen to represent themselves in legal matters. We are an affordable alternative to hiring an attorney, and our resources and experience can save you thousands of dollars.

We offer the following legal document preparation services:

Divorce

Legal Separation

Annulment

Domestic Partnership

Child Custody and Visitation

Support Orders (Child and Spousal)

Qualified Domestic Relations Orders (QDRO)

Marital Settlement Agreements and Related Documents

Disclosures

Orders to Show Cause and Notices of Motion

Domestic Violence Restraining Orders

Conservatorships

Guardianships

Emancipation of Minor

Simple Wills

Residential Rental Agreements

Thirty and Sixty Day Eviction Notices

Unlawful Detainers

History

Established in 2008.

In the State of California, over 4.3 million of California’s court users are self-​represented. Pro se litigants submit two-​thirds of family court filings.

The number of pro se litigants has risen dramatically in recent years. The primary reason, fairly obvious and well understood by the legal community, is the scarcity of affordable legal services.

Having extensive knowledge in correctly preparing legal paperwork, and knowing the ends and outs of the court system, we made a choice to give up our careers working for attorneys, and instead dedicate ourselves to assisting those who cannot afford an attorney and have made the choice to represent themselves. We became licensed and bonded Legal Document Assistants, and opened Divorce Document Assistance with the goal of helping members of the public have easy access to the courts and other legal processes.

Meet the Business Owner

Patricia J.

Business Owner

Patricia Ritchie, has worked in the legal field in both Napa and Solano County for 30 years, and has been a certificated paralegal since 1992. She has worked as a paralegal to family law specialists for the last 21 years of her career, and has extensive knowledge and expertise in the preparation of legal documents. She is a member of the California Association of Legal Document Assistants («CALDA»), and recently taught a class on the preparation of family law Declarations of Disclosure at CALDA’s 2014 Spring Seminar. She is registered and bonded in the County of Solano, LDA Reg. #44-​LDA.