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Date: 09/05/2025

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This Easy Form helps you make a plan to set parental responsibilities (formerly "custody") and parenting time (formerly "visitation"), including holidays and school breaks. You can use this program if:

  • You are getting a divorce, or
  • You were never married to the children's other parent.

The Easy Form does not e-file your form or deliver it to the other parent. You can download the form and instructions at the end of the program.

Learn more about parenting plans.

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: 20 minutes to 40 minutes

You will be able to save your work in the middle of the program.

This program will help you avoid mistakes when filling out the court forms. Your case could be delayed if there are errors on your forms. If you want to download a PDF version, visit the Illinois Courts Standardized State Forms website. Use Adobe Reader to fill in the PDF forms or print the forms to fill out by hand.

The interview and forms are in English.

Can I use this program?

You can use this program if you need a Parenting Plan for your children in a divorce or parental responsibilities case.

What do I need first?

To complete this program, you will need to know:

  • How you want to split parental responsibilities (formerly "custody"),
  • How you want to split parenting time (formerly "visitation"), and
  • Information about your divorce or parental responsibilities court case, such as case number and county.

If it is a new divorce or parental responsibilities case, you will need to know where you will file.

What documents will this create?

This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.

  • Instructions
  • Parenting Plan
  • Additional Minor Children
  • Additional Parenting Time

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Last full review by a subject matter expert
May 28, 2025
Last revised by staff
June 09, 2025

About our legal information

Forms

Petition for allocation of parental responsibilities Blank form
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).
Allocation of parental responsibilities order Blank form
Use this form to accompany an Order for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.
Counter-petition for allocation of parental responsibilities Blank form
Use this form to ask the judge to give you parental responsibilities when the other parent has already filed a petition.

Learn more

Petition for allocation of parental responsibilities
Divorce
Request to change child support

Worried about doing this on your own?  You may be able to get free legal help.

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Forms

Petition for allocation of parental responsibilities Blank form
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).
Allocation of parental responsibilities order Blank form
Use this form to accompany an Order for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.
Counter-petition for allocation of parental responsibilities Blank form
Use this form to ask the judge to give you parental responsibilities when the other parent has already filed a petition.

Learn more

Petition for allocation of parental responsibilities
Divorce
Request to change child support
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