Family & Safety
Worried about doing this on your own? You may be able to get free legal help.
This Easy Form helps you ask the court to order someone making you fearful for your safety or causing you distress to stop stalking you.
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 getting a Stalking No Contact 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?
To use this program:
- The person you are accusing of stalking did something that made you or people you want to protect fearful or caused emotional distress on at least two separate occasions, and
- You must be filing your forms in the county were the stalking took place or in the county where you, the stalker, or the people you want to protect live.
What do I need first?
To complete this program, you will need:
- An alternative address where you can receive court documents if you do not want the stalker to know the address where you are staying,
- The stalker's name, and
- Details about the stalking and when it took place.
What documents will this create?
This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.
- Instructions
- Domestic Violence Cover Sheet - Cook County
- Verified Petition for Stalking No Contact Order
- Petition for Stalking No Contact Order - Cook County
- Stalking No Contact Order
- Summons - Protective Orders
- Protective Order Information Sheet for Sheriff - Cook County
- Certification for Exemption from E-Filing
