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This Easy Form helps you prepare an Illinois Voluntary Acknowledgement of Parentage to tell the state who a child's parent is. If necessary, an Illinois Denial of Parentage will also be created.
The Easy Form does not file your forms. You can download the forms and filing instructions at the end of the program.
Learn more about voluntary acknowledgments of parentage.This program will help you make your forms. It will ask questions for you to answer. At the end of the program, you will get completed 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, you must be:
- A parent seeking to acknowledge that you are the parent of a child, or
- A parent helping your child's other parent acknowledge parentage.
What do I need first?
To complete this program, you will need to know:
- The both parents' address, birth date, and birth place, and
- The child's name and birth date.
If the parent who gave birth to the child was married to someone else when the child was conceived or born, you also need to know:
- The parent's spouse or ex-spouse's address, birth date, and birth place, and,
- The date of their marriage.
What documents will this create?
This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.
- Instructions
- Illinois Voluntary Acknowledgment of Parentage
- Illinois Denial of Parentage
Worried about doing this on your own? You may be able to get free legal help.
