Family & Safety
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This Easy Form helps you make a Petition for Rule to Show Cause to help you enforce an earlier court order. Use it for Illinois family law orders, involving child support, divorce judgments, allocation of parental responsibilities, parenting plans, or joint parenting agreements (custody or visitation).
The Easy Form does not e-file your forms. You can download the forms and e-filing instructions at the end of the program.
Learn more about enforcing a court order for divorce or enforcing a child support order.
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: 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.
Worried about doing this on your own? You may be able to get free legal help.
