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Date: 09/07/2025

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This Easy Form helps you ask the court to change or set a more specific parenting time (visitation) schedule. The forms help you modify or specify parenting time. You can use this program if you are divorced or if you were never married to the child's other parent.

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 changing parental responsibilities for a child.

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: 25 minutes to 30 minutes

You will 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?

To use this program:

  • You must already have an existing parenting time (visitation) order,
  • You want to set a more specific parenting time schedule or change an existing parenting time schedule,
  • You must not be involved in domestic violence charges, and
  • You must have seen the child or children within the past year.

What do I need first?

To complete this program, you will need to know:

  • Why the current parenting time schedule no longer works for you,
  • How you want to split regular parenting time, and
  • How you want to split parenting time during vacations, holidays, and school breaks.

What documents will this create?

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

  • How to File your Petition
  • Petition for Specific Parenting Time
  • Petition for Modification of Parenting Time
  • Notice of Hearing
  • Order for Specific Parenting Time
  • Order for Modifying of Parenting Time

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Last full review by a subject matter expert
September 27, 2017
Last revised by staff
May 24, 2020

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Forms

Motion to modify the allocation of parental responsibilities Blank form
Use this form to change the allocation of parental responsibility or child support.
Allocation of parental responsibilities order Blank form
Use this form to accompany an Order for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.
Petition to relocate Blank form
Use this form to ask a judge to change a parenting plan to let you move with your child to another place.

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Parenting plan
Parenting plan for parental responsibilities
Enforcing a joint parenting plan or agreement

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

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Forms

Motion to modify the allocation of parental responsibilities Blank form
Use this form to change the allocation of parental responsibility or child support.
Allocation of parental responsibilities order Blank form
Use this form to accompany an Order for Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.
Petition to relocate Blank form
Use this form to ask a judge to change a parenting plan to let you move with your child to another place.

Learn more

Parenting plan
Parenting plan for parental responsibilities
Enforcing a joint parenting plan or agreement
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