Family & Safety
Child support and child care
Resources that help you get money to care for your child.
Learn your rights (4 resources)
Explains how to change how much money a parent pays to the other parent in expenses for raising a child.
Guide
A parent that has an Order for Support can ask a court to force the other parent to pay the child support that is owed.
Guide
Explains how to get money from parents for educational expenses like tuition after the child has turned 18 years old.
Guide
Explains getting money from the other parent to pay for the expenses of raising the child you share.
Guide
Forms (8 resources)
Use this form to change the allocation of parental responsibility or child support.
Form download
A program to help you create the forms to ask the court to increase or decrease your current child support order. This is called child support modification.
Easy Form
A program to prepare Financial Affidavit forms that provide financial information and documents to the other party in family law cases.
Easy Form
A program to help you create a Petition for Rule to Show Cause to help you enforce an earlier family law court order.
Easy Form
Other resources for the public (35 resources)
Explains how child support is calculated in Illinois. Describes the formula a judge uses, and how they might depart from the formula.
Text article
Explains rules for leaving children at home alone and state intervention in dangerous situations for children.
Text article
Information about what a parent's duties are to their children after the age of 18 and what parents can do.
Text article
Steps to get child support from the forms you need to how the court hearing works.
How-To
Lawyer resources (1 resources)
Manual on domestic relations and juvenile law, including editable forms. 2023 edition.
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