Family & Safety
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This Easy Form helps you provide financial information and documents to the other party and the court.
It makes the statewide Financial Affidavit. This form is used in family and divorce cases where someone is requesting child support, temporary maintenance, or attorney's fees.
This program will help you make your court forms. It will ask questions for you to answer. At the end of the program, you will get completed court forms and instructions. You can save and print them, or the program can email them to you.
Form completion time: 30 minutes to 60 minutes
You will be able to save your work in the middle of the program.
The interview and forms are in English.
Can I use this program?
To use this program, you must have a family law case in Illinois. You or the other party must be asking for the other person to pay child support, children's expenses, college expenses, spousal maintenance (alimony), or attorney's fees.
What do I need first?
To complete this program, you will need to know:
- Your monthly income and expenses,
- Your expenses for children and other dependents, if any,
- Your income tax refunds or amounts owed for the last 2 years (federal and state),
- Your debts and liabilities, and
- Your assets, such as bank accounts, real estate, vehicles, and retirement benefits.
What documents will this create?
This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.
- How to Complete a Financial Affidavit (Family & Divorce Cases)
- Financial Affidavit (Family & Divorce)
- Additional My Employment/Business (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Child Support Payments (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Health Insurance (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional My Debts (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Cash and Cash Equivalents (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Investment Accounts and Securities (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Business Interests (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Insurance and Retirement (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Other Personal Property (Financial Affidavit)
- Additional Lawsuits and Claims (Financial Affidavit)
Worried about doing this on your own? You may be able to get free legal help.
