Family & Safety
Changing parental responsibilities (custody and visitation)
This Easy Form will help you make a plan to set parental responsibilities (formerly "custody") and parenting time (formerly "visitation").
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Use this form to change the allocation of parental responsibility or child support.
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Explains how to change who makes important decisions for a child if the judge has already granted a court order.
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Steps to change parental responsibilities also known as custody from the forms you need to how the court hearing works. If you do not already have a parental responsibilities court order, you can find out how to get one.
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Use this form to accompany an Order for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.
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Explains what you need to do if you have an order for parental responsibilities and you want to move with the child.
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Information about when and how parental rights can be terminated
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A program to help you ask the court to change or set a more specific parenting time (visitation) schedule. The forms help you modify or specify parenting time.
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Advanced level content. Information on dissolution, divorce, common-law marriage, separation, child support, custody, and visitation.
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Use this form to tell the other parent that you plan to move to a different place with a child or children.
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Explains the difference between a child representative, guardian ad litem (GAL), and attorney for a child.
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Use this form to ask a judge to change a parenting plan to let you move with your child to another place.
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Use this form to accompany a motion to modify the allocation of parental responsibilities.
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Learn more about what a 604B evaluation is and how it's used in parental responsibilities cases (formerly known as "custody" cases).
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Use this form to ask the judge to give you parental responsibilities when the other parent has already filed a petition.
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Use this form to ask a judge to enforce or modify a divorce or custody judgment from another state.
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Explains what someone has to prove to the judge before the court will allow them to visit against the parent's wishes.
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A birthing parent's partner can become a child's legal parent, and couples without a birthing parent can adopt a child.
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