6 Best  Tips to Get a Divorce Online in Ontario, California – Ontario Divorce Online – California Divorce Near Ontario

3. Don’t Fall Into the DIY Trap in Your Online Divorce in Ontario:

Don’t download blank divorce forms online from the California Judicial Council website, or from anywhere else – even if they tell you that instructions are included. Forget it. There are no magic customized instructions – except at NetDivorce or a few other honest, competent online divorce providers.

Every divorce case is different. There are just too many potential differences between cases for there to be a one-size-fits-all set of instructions. If there were magic instructions that covered all cases, they would be hundreds of pages long. You wouldn’t read them.

Only competent online divorce providers can customize their written instructions to your case and make them readable and helpful to your individual case in San Bernardino County.

Doing your own divorce in San Bernardino County used to be much easier and was possible for many people pre-Internet. When we opened California Legal Assistance Centers in Riverside on June 1, 1981, you could pick up free forms from the court and get an uncontested California divorce, even with minor children, on maybe a dozen documents totaling 20-25 sheets of paper. Now, it would take about 35-40 separate state and county multi-page documents on perhaps 120-150 sheets of paper to get the same divorce.

Every single divorce document has at least one difficult section you will not understand.  Most have multiple difficult sections. California divorce documents are not intuitive, and court clerks are not there to help. In fact, they have fun not helping you. In many instances, you will not even understand what the document is requesting, let alone how to answer.

All California Judicial Council divorce documents are drafted by California lawyers to confuse you so that you hire a California divorce lawyer. By all means, download California divorce forms from the Judicial Council and/or your local court.  Look at them and familiarize yourself with them.

But don’t go it alone.  You will screw it up, and it will cost much more to fix than it would have cost for you to hire a competent online divorce provider like NetDivorce in the first place.

Going it alone in California divorce these days is a false economy, particularly when online divorce is so cheap – if you can avoid the fraud and incompetence. 

You can read more about the problems associated with DIY divorce in California

4. Rely on Legitimate Client Testimonials:

Nielsen’s September 2013 study on Global Trust in Advertising and Brand Messages reveals that in North America, consumers trust (82%) “Recommendations from people I know,” and trust (68%) “Consumer opinions posted online.”

Definitely listen to the advice of trusted friends and relatives about their experiences in obtaining a divorce, particularly a San Bernardino County divorce.

However, the online testimonials of people you don’t know are also valuable as there will be many more of them and they will pertain to the individual online divorce provider you’re considering hiring. These are the experiences of other people who were in the exact same situation you are in right now. They made a hiring decision, and they are now telling you about the consequences of that decision.  That is valuable information for you in your Ontario divorce.

Read client testimonials onsite carefully.  Determine if they are certified by a legitimate third party company that is in the business of verifying testimonials across all online industries, not just the online divorce industry. Click through to read testimonials on that third-party company’s website.

Read a few testimonials to see if they sound the same. They should not.  If they do, the online divorce provider may be providing a pre-scripted format for the client to complete.  That’s not an honest legitimate client testimonial.

If the testimonials say things like, “So far so good” or “I’ve only just hired them but all seems to be good,” ignore those testimonials.  In fact, ignore the online divorce provider that has such testimonials. They mean that the online divorce provider has demanded a testimonial right after they’ve been hired and before the client has even had a chance to determine the value of the service being provided.

Divorce online providers who attack their clients for a testimonial right after they’ve been hired are essentially saying to the client, “Give us a good testimonial before you really know us or we’ll screw up your case.” At least, that is what the reasonable client will think. Those are not honest or legitimate testimonials because they are not voluntary and because they are demanded at a time when the client doesn’t have a full picture of the service being provided. The client thinks, “Heck, I’d better give them a good testimonial or they may screw up my case.”

Trust your gut here.  If you read a few testimonials and get bad vibes about them, walk away. There is probably something wrong.

5. Look for Client Testimonial Fraud in Online Divorce in Ontario Using This Simple Trick:

Client testimonials are valuable to you, the San Bernardino County divorce consumer. But only if they are legitimate. Bogus client testimonials by fake divorce-testimonial sites are a huge source of fraud in the online divorce industry.

An example will be good to demo this trick.  One of the big aggressive players in California online divorce is mydivorcepapers.com. They are highly active in every slick practice I’m aware of. Their site claims that they use a company called Certified Comments as their client testimonial certifier.

Go to big Google and enter into the search bar “site:certifiedcomments.com” – (without the quotation marks) – just copy and paste everything between those quotation marks into the Google search bar and click on Search.

The “site” command in Google will provide an approximate (it’s not 100% accurate) listing of all web pages on the specified website that are indexed in the Google search engine.

Look at the search results for site:certifiedcomments.com. At the top of the search engine results page, it will say something like, “About 140 results.” But when you scroll down, you will find that since the website was put up in June 2014 there are in fact only a total of 3 pages indexed from the entire certifiedcomments.com website. They are the top page, the login page, the contact form page, etc.

So Certified Comments has been online since June 2014.  It urges online companies to, “Show your customers that you are real and that each of your testimonials has been validated by a third party as being 100% real.”

The “service” provided by Certified Comments is not just available to California online divorce companies.  It is available to all online companies worldwide, though ridiculously, only by invitation. You can request an invitation. We’ve done that 3 times and amazingly, have never heard back. We couldn’t call or contact Certified Comments because they list no phone number or address. And their domain registration is a privacy proxy. In fact, by pure coincidence, their proxy registration just happens to be the exact same one used by mydivorcepapers.com. What a surprise.

So that means that after almost 5 years (at this writing) certifiedcomments.com allegedly has invited only 1 customer: mydivorcepapers.com.

Now do the site command on a real testimonial review company, Trust Pilot. Enter “site:trustpilot.com” into your Google search bar.  You will see, “About 494,000 results.”  Trust Pilot has almost half a million indexed pages and you have to go down to the third page of search results to begin to see just the business categories of their clients. Click on any business category and you will see dozens (sometimes hundreds) of online companies in each category that have signed up for Trust Pilot’s actual real testimonial verification service.

So what does all that mean?  It means that certifiedcomments.com is a bogus company owned or controlled by mydivorcepapers.com.  It’s a complete fraud. Mydivorcepapers.com has written its own 5000+ testimonials on certifiedcomments.com to try to make you think that mydivorcepapers.com is an excellent California online divorce company that knows what it is doing, has thousands of satisfied clients and doesn’t have 84 Better Business Bureau complaints filed in the last year an F rating at the BBB  and a 100% negative review rating.

6. Make a Connection With Your Online Divorce Provider:

In a research world dominated by the clinical impersonal Internet, call your shortlist of online divorce providers on the phone.

Firstly, see if anyone answers the phone during business hours. If there is no answer the first time, call a couple more times at different times during the business day. What you experience now in terms of responsiveness will be what you get later. And if there’s a different phone number for existing clients, you’ll get worse service on that number later on than on the number called by potential new clients.

Secondly, if you get a live person on the phone, see if that person is an employee of the online divorce provider or a call-center employee in India. Ask a question or two about your case to see if the person is comfortable talking about and displaying his or her knowledge about divorce.  It will be easy to tell.  You don’t have to be an expert in divorce yourself to determine if the person you’re talking to is an expert.

BTW, don’t give them your phone number or email address. Some online divorce providers will bombard you with messages. Just tell them you’ll call back if there’s no one available.

Thirdly, follow up. Call again and ask another question or three.  Tell them that you’ve called before and tell them you have more questions. See if they react adversely on the basis that you might be a “problem” client.

Trust your gut on this. If you sense any resistance or resentment because you’re asking questions, walk away. At NetDivorce, our proprietary software is so bullet-proof and our other online help and client support systems are so darn good (after 40+ years) that ALL we do ALL day and EVERY day is to answer client questions. But we hear horror stories (a lot of them are in BBB complaints) about other online divorce providers promising personal caseworkers or case managers, but the client never actually speaks to that person. They are often told that their caseworker will call back in 3 or 5 days. That doesn’t work in divorce.

Also be sure to check out our extensive Online Divorce Price Comparison Table that compares actual final pricing at the 16 most popular sites offering online divorce in Ontario. 

Conclusion:

To recap the 6 best tips to get a divorce online in Ontario California, if you have an uncontested case, get an online divorce in Ontario California. Get that online divorce from the comfort of your home or office from a divorce online provider by relying on their legitimate client testimonials. Run a gut-check on those testimonials and use the “site:” trick to determine if they are using a legitimate testimonial verifier. Make a connection with your shortlist of online divorce providers by actually calling them on the phone and asking difficult and annoying questions before you hire anyone.

Thanks for reading and we hope that this has been instructive and helpful in your online divorce in Ontario.

You might also check our “Easy Divorce in California.”

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