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Help ILAO open opportunities for justice

This program will help you prepare your documents. It will ask you questions and you will enter your answers. At the end of the program, you will get a completed set of court forms with instructions that you can save and print.

Form completion time: 10 minutes to 20 minutes

You will not be able to save your work in the middle of the program.

The button below takes you to another website to complete the guided interview. Learn more about Easy Forms.

The interview and forms are in English.

Can I use this program?

Use this program if you want to enforce the following kinds of orders:

Child support,
Divorce judgment or Marital settlement agreement,
Allocation of Parental Responsibilities,
Parenting Plan, or
Joint parenting agreement.

What do I need first?

You will need a copy of the order or judgment you want to enforce. To complete this program, you will need to know:

Names and addresses of the people in your case,
The part of the order or judgment that was violated,
The ways that the order or judgment was violated, and
The dates the order or judgment was violated.

If you are enforcing a child support order, you will also need to know recent child support payment history.

What documents will this create?

This program prepares the following forms:

Petition for rule to show cause,
Notice of court date for motion and Proof of delivery, and
Order on rule to show cause.

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