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I am not an attorney, I am a judgment referral specialist (Judgment Broker). This article is my opinion, based on my experience in California, and laws vary in every state. Nothing in any of my articles can ever be considered legal advice. If you ever require a strategy to use or legal advice, you should contact a lawyer.
In this article, when LDP is used, it means a Legal Document Preparation or a Legal Document Preparer. In this article, LDP also means Legal Document Assistant (LDA), which means almost the same thing - a person with education and training, that is usually licensed by a state. What a LDP can or cannot do depends on which state they are operating in. In some states, State Bars have preventedLDAs from operating.
LDPs do not provide a legal service, however they can assist you to fill out the sheriff's or the court's legal forms. Sometimes LDPs are also process servers, court researchers, or court runners - and can sometimes file or serve your documents.
LDPs do not, and cannot give legal advice. Most will not even give you a direct opinion, because that might be too close to being considered an Unauthorized Practice Of Law. (See Business and Professions Code Section 6400 A.) LDPs usually do not select forms for you. Instead, they can refer you to pre-printed brochures and flyers, with the same information that a web search would show.
The legal situation when at LDPs, is similar to when you are at a court clerk's window. Neither of them will offer you legal advice, but both can point you to where you can learn what to do, and then you can return and tell them what you need done. (They usually will inform you if you do fill out something wrong, but they still cannot provide legal advice.)
Depending on what state, some people use LDPs for do-it-yourself divorce, lawsuits, unlawful detainer, bankruptcies, wills, judgment enforcement, and many other tasks where one wants help to do the legal task or forms themselves.
The main advantage of using an LDP is they may save you money. If your needs are simple and there are no complications, and you know what you are doing, you may save a lot of money hiring a LDP.
In some states, where attorneys work very few judgment collection cases on contingency, and collection agencies charge too much upfront and too much as a percentage, and/or judgment enforcers have been put out of business by state bars (or are too picky), or where small claims judgments cannot be assigned, LDAs can be a solution to attempt to get judgments enforced.
There are many disadvantages to using a LDP:
1) If your task or case has any kind of opposition or complication, you may need pay a lawyer the same, or more money, than if you went to them first, and you will also have already paid the LDP.
2) Just because you can lawfully do something doesn't mean one should. A good attorney can advise you on whether it is a good idea to try something, a LDP can't.
3) Lawsuits can be won, and judgments can be enforced on a contingency basis. Contingency is an important concept and LDPs are not contingency. Contingency lets you spend no time and no money, and someone else works and pays to get your task accomplished. LDPs are always pay as you go.
4) When you pay for a LDA to help you enforce your judgment, usually you must also pay for a private investigator, and pay courts, sheriffs, and process servers.
Good web sites to learn more are: Wikipedia and in California, http://www.calda.org/Information.asp
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SOURCE : http://goarticles.com/article/LDAs-Explained/5492077/
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