Family & Safety

This Easy Form will help you make a plan to set parental responsibilities (formerly "custody") and parenting time (formerly "visitation").

Use this form to ask the judge to give you parental responsibilities for a child. This includes parenting time (visitation) and decision-making power (custody).

Learn more about the steps to get parental responsibilities (formerly known as custody) of a child.

Explains how to get legal duties to make important decisions for a child and spend time with them. Formerly known as "custody" and "visitation."

Use this form to accompany an Order for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.

Advanced level content. Information on dissolution, divorce, common-law marriage, separation, child support, custody, and visitation.

Explains how to get a court order forcing parents to let you spend time with a child who is your grandchild or step-daughter or step-son.

Explains the difference between a child representative, guardian ad litem (GAL), and attorney for a child.

Use this form to accompany a motion to modify the allocation of parental responsibilities.

Learn more about what a 604B evaluation is and how it's used in parental responsibilities cases (formerly known as "custody" cases).

Use this form to ask the judge to give you parental responsibilities when the other parent has already filed a petition.

Explains what someone has to prove to the judge before the court will allow them to visit against the parent's wishes.

Explains how to divorce someone who is not living in Illinois.

Information regarding court orders for parental responsibilities and whether an order is required.

A birthing parent's partner can become a child's legal parent, and couples without a birthing parent can adopt a child.

Learn more about residency requirements in Illinois in order to file a parental responsibilities case (formerly known as "custody").