G.R. Hammond Document Services
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17715 Chatsworth Street, Suite 103
Granada Hills, CA 91344 (map) - (818) 435-6776
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G.R. Hammond Document Services • Granada Hills, CA • $100 per hour
- You'll be asked a few quick questions that will help describe your needs.
- You'll be asked to provide your contact information so that Galen Hammond will be able to get in touch with you.
- You'll have the option to get competing quotes from other qualified service professionals, saving you time and money.
G.R. Hammond Document Services is a low-cost legal document preparation service. We help our clients by preparing documents for legal and business affairs under our clients' specific direction.
SERVICES - We assist with preparing the following:
*Living Trusts / Wills
*Powers of Attorney
*Advance Healthcare Directives
*Probate / Trust Administration paperwork
*Conservatorships (adults)
*Guardianships (children under age of 18)
*Dissolution of Marriage (also known as "divorce")
*Legal Separation
*Small Claims
*Motions to Set Aside Default Judgment
*Bankruptcy (Chapter 7 ONLY)
Please call for details regarding other types of documents not listed here. We also offer mobile notary public services.
PRICING - Most uncontested services are on a flat price basis... clients appreciate knowing up front what their costs will be. However, we do also have services billed on an hourly rate basis, at $100 per hour. Please call or email us for pricing information.
PLEASE NOTE - A non-attorney Legal Document Assistant may not assist in the selection of legal documents.
If you have any questions of a legal nature concerning your specific situation, we can refer you to published legal information (such as is published by Nolo Press, for example), or you can consult with an attorney-at-law or other professional. We do have attorney referrals available.
DISCLAIMER: We are not attorneys, and G.R. Hammond Document Services is not a law firm. We cannot (1) represent you in court, (2) advise you about your legal rights or the law, or (3) select legal forms for you. We can only provide self-help services at your specific direction.
Owner: Galen Hammond, LDA
LDA #372, Exp. 9/19/2012
Registered and Bonded in Los Angeles County.
Question and answer
Q. What advice do you have for a customer looking to hire a provider like you?
A. When looking for a California Legal Document Assistant, please make sure to ask the prospective service provider you are considering hiring the following questions:
1. Are you registered and bonded?
2. If yes, in what county?
3. May I see your registration card?
4. Please provide me with a copy of the required "Legal Document Assistant Contract for Self-Help Services".
A legitimate California Legal Document Assistant will have no hesitation in answering these questions.
Also be aware that it is illegal for a "paralegal" to work directly with the public in preparing legal documents; only a registered and bonded Legal Document Assistant may do so.
Oftentimes a "paralegal" who is operating a document preparation business under the "guidance" or "supervision" of an attorney is doing so thinking that they can operate legally because they are under the "supervision" of an attorney and therefore not required to register as a Legal Document Assistant. This also applies to having an attorney "on staff" at the "paralegal" office.
In either case, the operation is operating illegally. A paralegal performs services under the direction and supervision of an attorney, who ultimately is responsible for the work product.
However, when a paralegal is properly working under attorney supervision, it is the attorney, and NOT the paralegal, who has direct contact with the client and who sets the fee for services and signs the retainer agreement (or contract). The established contractual relationship MUST be between the attorney and the legal services consumer.
The only time a non-attorney may provide most legal services is when that persion is registered and bonded as a Legal Document Assistant (the major exceptions being for bankruptcy petition preparation, Immigration Consultants registered with the State of California, and non-attorney advocates with administrative agencies such as Social Security).
Please see California Business and Professions Code Sections 6400 - 6415 for more information about Legal Document Assistant, and Sections 6450 - 6456 for more information on paralegals.
