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 order from a family law case. Use it for divorce judgments or orders involving child support, maintenance (alimony), 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 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 be able to save your work in the middle of the program.
The interview and forms are in English.
Can I use this program?
Use this program if you want to enforce one of following orders:
- Dissolution of Marriage,
- Dissolution of Civil Union,
- Legal Separation,
- Declaration of Invalidity,
- Allocation of Parental Responsibilities,
- Visitation (Non-Parent),
- Support,
- Parentage,
- Order of Protection,
- Civil No Contact Order,
- Stalking No Contact Order, or
- Another family law order.
What do I need first?
To complete this program, you will need:
- A copy of the court order you want enforced,
- Information about how the other person in the case did not follow the order, and
- The name and address of the other person in your case or their lawyer, if they have one.
If you are enforcing a child support or maintenance order, you will also need to know recent child support or maintenance payment history.
What documents will this create?
This program prepares the following forms:
- Instructions
- Petition for Rule to Show Cause
- Notice of Court Date for Motion
- Proof of Delivery
- Order on Rule to Show Cause
Worried about doing this on your own? You may be able to get free legal help.
