Services Personal Financial Record Preparation Have you heard of friends going through a divorce, meticulously searching through their files and piles to obtain records for every purchase they've made over the last couple of years, in order to prove their historical spending record? Does your attorney or CPA offer an expensive service of compiling these receipts into a spreadsheet? There is a better way, a much, much better way... The Divorce Helpsm way! Divorce Helpsm consultants will set up all your banking and asset accounts in Quicken® software. They wil set up online services for you, and download your transactions into your accounts. Every transaction will be associated with your state's divorce categories. All you need to do is fill out our simple Client Profiles and authorization forms. These forms are available to fill out online, or simply on paper, whatever your preference. You will be given a straight-forward Timeline Checklist to follow. Many of the tasks involved with record preparation are not difficult, if you know what to do, but they are extremely time consuming. Divorce Help'ssm trained Bookkeeping Assistants perform many of the time consuming data entry tasks and are billed at a much lower rate. Divorce Help'ssm method eliminates the need to find receipts and eliminates the possibility of forgotten spending. Remember you want to show you have a high historical spending in order to get the maximum support. These electronic records will be given to your former spouse and his counsel. Along with your supporting documentation andExpense Help™ reports, these records should be irrefutable in showing your historical spending record. With Divorce Help's method, not only will you have the evidence you need to get the best possible settlement for your divorce, after your divorce you will have all your personal financial records set up for you in Quicken®. The Benefits to electronic financial records in Quicken® are huge! Your electronic financial records are yours to keep and you will be empowered to maintain them after your divorce.          Expen Help    Expense Help™ Reports will be the most powerful tools used to determine your spousal and child support by clearly and effectively showing your financial need. Expense Help™ is Divorce Help's proprietary sofltware which takes your personal financial data from Quicken® and creates financial reports (see example) that clearly show your historical monthly spending. It calculates your portion of average monthly spending (separating it from that of your spouse), and offers several formatting choices for you and your attorney. Expense Help™ saves valuable time, creating reports with saved preferences in seconds. Inevitably these reports will need to be run more than once. Your attorney can ask for changes until they are just as he wants to see them. Your spouse may delay proceedings and you will need up-to-date information. Expense Help's time savings mean fewer hours that need to be billed. Your Expense Help™ Reports will be produced in MS Excel® , which offers a multitude of powerful analysis tools. You, your attorney, and your spouse's counsel will each receive a copy of these reports on a CD in two formats: MS Excel® , and HTML, which you can view on any browser. You will receive these same reports on paper, as well as be able to view the latest version on Divorce Help'ssm Web site. In addition to your expense reports, Divorce Help will create income reports for both you and your spouse, balance sheets for the last three years and as of the date the legal professionals decide for your financial separation, and rental income expense reports for any rental properties you may have. Supporting Documentation Do you cower at the thought of trying to dig up all your bank statements and cancelled checks from your files and piles? Your former spouse and his counsel will likely request supporting documentation for the electronic records and reports you give them. After all, anyone can change numbers in Quicken® files and spreadsheets and make it say anything she wants. Obtaining all your "discovery" documentation is one of the most time consuming, overwhelming, and frustrating tasks of divorce. And you are required to gather this documentation in one of the most devastating times of your life. Divorce Helpsm will do it for you, all at our lower Bookkeeping Assistant rate. Different banks have different policies regarding fees for obtaining copies of bank statements, cancelled checks, and deposits. If your account is considered premium (banks have different names for these accounts), many of these fees are completely waived. You have the choice of supplying Divorce Helpsm with the statements and copies you have, having us only order the missing records, or having Divorce Helpsm order all the records for you. Divorce Helpsm then organizes your supporting documentation. Each state's court system has its own mandatory disclosure requirements. Divorce help will organize these into comb bound booklets for you which will include a table of contents and index tabs, as well as any other exhibit booklets your attorney wants. Copies of these booklets go to you, your attorney, the opposing counsel, and the judge, arbiter or mediator. You will also receive two file boxes containing professional and organized files for all of your mandatory disclosures, files for all documents in your exhibits, files for each of your Divorce Help reports, expanded files for your disclosures and exhibits booklets, and even files for you to organize all your attorney correspondence, attorney billing, settlement statement, parenting plan.... You will be surprised how often you will need to go back to this over the years after your divorce. Get organized and you will feel empowered. Graphs and Charts Your Expense Help Reports will be produced in MS Excel®, which have powerful analysis tools. Your attorney or divorce CPA may have certain data prepared in graphs, charts, and pivot tables he likes to see or use as evidence. Divorce Helpsm will create any graph, chart or pivot table your attorney requests from your data and/or your former spouse's data given to us. We are your Excel experts. Sworn Financial Statement Ultimately, everyone going through a divorce must fill out a Sworn Financial Statement (seeexample), sometimes called a Financial Affidavit. Every state has its own version of this mandatory document. It is used to determine spousal support (also called "alimony" or "spousal maintenance") and child support as well as the division of assets. Divorce Helpsm will fill this form out electronically, from the output from the Expense Help™ reports, as well as from information you provide from your Client Profiles. Filling out documents electronically is efficient because edits typically need to be made, and you don't have to rewrite the entire document. It is the client's responsibility to verify the accuracy of the contents of this document before signing and submitting it. Training for Personal Financial Record Keeping One of the many distinguishing features of Divorce Helpsm methods is that you will have your personal finances all set up for you in Quicken® software. But they won't be very helpful to you after your divorce if you do not know how to maintain them. Divorce Helpsm provides one-on-one training with you to empower you to keep your financial records in order.           Benefits of Quicken® personal financial record keeping Quick access to all your financial information Prove to a company that you've already paid its bill. Remind yourself if you've already paid a bill. Provide a financial advisor or fill out a loan application with account and asset information. Find out how much money you have in an account before writing a check. Figure out how much money you spend in a certain area or all categories...where is your money going? Find out if you deposited a check someone said she gave you a long time ago. Find out if a check has cleared. Everything is in one place...find out what your real net worth is. Catch your banks' mistakes. The Benefits of Online Access You will have access to real time information. That means you can easily download the current information whenever you need it for any of the needs. mentioned above, without waiting for your statement to come in the mail. You don't have to enter every transaction by hand. Downloading transactions is fast and easy. Transfer money from one account to another without going to the ATM. Keep an eye on your investments. Pay Bills without Envelopes or Stamps Paying bills through Quicken® is fast and easy. You simply pull up a bill, and send it off with a few quick keystrokes. No envelopes, no stamps, no handwriting checks, no return address, no post office. All your regular bills will be scheduled. So if you lose a bill, you will be reminded that it is due and you can make sure you pay it on time. You can also look ahead to what bills are coming up. Calculations are done for you Calculations are what computers do best. Computers are far more accurate and immeasurably faster at making calculations. Reconciling: if you have never used software to reconcile your statements, after you begin you will be absolutely amazed at how you ever did it by hand. Easily find small mistakes, and when you correct them you will have immediate results without having to re-add everything. Tax preparation: add up all your expenses and income, according to category, for your tax preparation, without touching a calculator. Yes! We've been told many times that most of our services would help many people NOT going through a divorce. We agree. You don't need to go through a divorce to benefit from Divorce Help's services. Are you trying to come up with a budget, but don't know how to figure out how much you spend in each category? Do you need to repair your credit, and need help getting control of your finances? Or do you simply want to get your finances organized in Quicken®, pay bills through Quicken®, download transactions into Quicken®, schedule bills and reconcile the easy way? We can help you set your personal finances up and empower you to use them.