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Joint simplified divorce in Cook County

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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: 20 minutes to 40 minutes

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

Begin: Joint simplified divorce in Cook County program

Qualifications

To use this program, all of the following must be true:

  1. You and your spouse must agree on all of the terms of the dissolution;
  2. You must agree that your marriage/civil union has broken down and cannot be repaired;
  3. You must file court forms and appear in court together with your spouse;
  4. You or your spouse must be a resident of Illinois for the past 90 days;
  5. You or your spouse must be a resident of Cook County;
  6. You and your spouse must currently be living separate and apart;
  7. Your marriage/civil union cannot be longer than 8 years;
  8. You cannot have any children with your spouse;
  9. You or your spouse must not be pregnant by the other spouse, or in the process of adopting a child;
  10. You or your spouse cannot own any real estate;
  11. You and your spouse cannot hold any retirement benefits jointly and the combined value of any benefits either of you hold individually must be less than $10,000;
  12. The total marital property, minus debts, must be less than $50,000;
  13. You or your spouse individually cannot make more than $30,000 per year, before taxes;
  14. You and your spouse together cannot make more $60,000 per year, before taxes;
  15. You or your spouse must not depend on each other for support;
  16. You and your spouse must agree to waive the right to support;
  17. You and your spouse must disclose your tax returns to each other for each year of the marriage/civil union; AND
  18. You and your spouse must agree to divide all property you got during the marriage/civil union that is worth more than $100, and all debts taken on during the marriage/civil union.

Learn more about getting a divorce.

Information Needed

To complete this program, you will need to know:

  1. Your spouse's current address;
  2. You and your spouse's yearly income; AND
  3. The value of the property and debts you got during the marriage or civil union.

Documents Produced

This program prepares the following forms:

  1. Domestic Relations Division Cover Sheet
  2. Joint Petition for Simplified Dissolution

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