We, NetDivorce,LLC, hereby pledge to our existing and future clients, without
reservation or BS, that we will never engage in fraud of any kind against our
clients or potential clients in seeking to obtain their business or in the
conduct of our on-line divorce business.
We take fraud to mean the obtaining of a substantive benefit (such as getting
someone to hire us) by purposeful deception. Deception means stating or
implying that some material fact is true, when it is not, or vice versa, when
you know that your statement or implication is not true.
Specifically, we pledge NOT to engage in any of the following frauds:
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Description of Fraud
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mydivorcepapers.com
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SELLS YOU BLANK FORMS THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD FREE FROM STATE JUDICIAL COUNCIL
WEBSITES
Details: Since approximately 2001, this site has been selling packages of blank divorce
forms to people who apparently don't know that they can download the same forms
free from state judicial council and state websites. It has charged either
$25 or $30 per package.
JULY 2014 UPDATE: THIS SITE NO LONGER SELLS PACKAGES OF
FORMS. SEE ITS CURRENT FRAUD BELOW.
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mydivorcepapers.com
idivorceforms.com
(these are sister sites owned by the same people) |
TRICKS YOU INTO HIRING THEM BY CLAIMING THEY HAVE OVER 1500
INDEPENDENTLY CERTIFIED CLIENT TESTIMONIALS. THEY DON'T
Details: These two websites use the
non-existent certifiedcomments.com service to represent to you that they have
over 1500 verified testimonials from clients. This is intended to convicnce you
to hire them because they must be an honest and efficient company.
Certifiedcomments.com has a
private domain registration. They pay extra so that you can't tell who owns
the website, even though it is a website that claims it deals in trust and
transparency. It exposes no address, phone number or email address on its site.
It does not respond to messages sent via a web form on its site. A Google search
for "certifiedcomments.com" reveals only the two listed divorce websites as being clients of certifiedcomments.com.
Certifiedcomments.com is hosted on the very same web server in Irvine, CA as the two
divorce websites. The domain name, certifiedcomments.com was created for the first time
in July 2013, but it has "guaranteed" testimonials for these two
divorce sites that date back
to June 2012.
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rocketlawyer.com
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USES BAIT AND SWITCH. PROMISES A "FREE" MARITAL SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT BUT
YOU HAVE TO PROVIDE A CREDIT CARD TO GET IT AND THE "FREE" DOCUMENT IS USELESS;
THEY THEN TRY TO SELL YOU A LEGAL SERVICES PLAN THAT DOESN'T COVER DIVORCE!
Details: The Marital Settlement Agreement provided was of low
quality. It did not include certain mandatory wording required by California
courts and would not have been accepted for filing by those courts, including
those in at least Los Angeles and Orange Counties. Further, by the time the site
requests your credit card, you have invested 30 minutes in answering the online
interview questions. If you select the "free week" option so that you don't have
to pay immediately, you still have to provide your credit card and you can't
make any further changes to the agreement. Modifications are almost always
needed. It may technically be "free," but it has been a complete waste of
your time, which you may value, and is unfileable anyway.
While you have been pursuing a "free" document, they've got your email address,
your private marital information (they are partially owned by Google) and your
credit card.
Unless you opt-out after the free week, they charge you $49 per month for a
pre-paid legal services plan THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE DIVORCE! But you can hire one
of their subscribed lawyers to handle your divorce at either "pre-negotiated
rates" or $125 per hour, whichever is greater.
This site is only a front for selling a $49 per month legal services plan or for
referring you to lawyers who have subscribed your zip code.
ADVICE: IF YOU WANT TO HIRE A LAWYER OR BUY A LEGAL SERVICES PLAN, DO SO, BUT
YOU SHOULD SELECT THE ONE YOU WANT. DON'T LET ROCKET LAWYER CHEAT YOU INTO ITS
PLAN JUST BECAUSE YOU ARE GETTING A DIVORCE.
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mydivorcepapers.com
idivorceforms.com
(these are sister sites owned by the same people) |
USES AN AFFILIATED WEBSITE, MYDIVORCEDOCUMENTS.COM (see above)
WHICH CLAIMS THAT IT HAS "REVIEWED" 5
ONLINE DIVORCE SITES AND (WHAT A SURPRISE!)RECOMMENDS THE TWO AFFILIATED
DIVORCE SITES AS THE BEST:
Details: In July 2014, its owners stopped using
mydivorcedocuments.com to
sell packages of freely available blank forms (see above) and changed its
fraudulent use.
Now, mydivorcedocuments.com pretends to be an online divorce site review
service. It claims to review divorce sites as an independent "expert." It's
"reviews" are very thin and obviously contain no information that cannot be read
on the websites of the services reviewed. There is no evidence that
mydivorcedocuments.com even hired the sites it was reviewing. And why would it
when it knew that it was going to recommend its 2 affiliated sites?
It pretends that its reviews and recommendation are legitimate, third party
arms-length deals. However, proof that all three sites are affiliated is that
(1) a phone number that used to appear as a customer support line on
mydivorcedocuments.com in
March 2011 and at other times, 1-800-604-2860, is now a customer support line
for mydivorcepapers.com.
(2) the Better Business Bureau record for
mydivorcedocuments.com in
June 2004 and at other times, lists Jason McClain, the owner of
mydivorcepapers.com as the primary contact for
mydivorcedocuments.com; and (3) at different times during 2013 and 2014, when
mydivorcedocuments.com had begun to offer an online divorce service,
as well as selling free forms, it contained links to both
mydivorcepapers.com and
idivorceforms.com as its own
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