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This program will help you prepare your documents. It will ask you questions and you will enter your answers. At the end of the program, you will get a completed set of court forms with instructions that you can save and print.
Form completion time: 10 minutes to 20 minutes
You will not 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.
To use this program, you must be unable to pay the court fees in your appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court.
To use this program, you will need to know:
- The public benefits that you get,
- Your income each month,
- Your income over the past 12 months,
- Details about the trial court case, including county, case number, and judge's name, and
- Details about the appellate court, case including district and case number.
Learn more about filing court papers for free.
This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.
- How to Ask the Supreme Court to Participate in an Appeal for Free or at a Reduced Cost
- Application for Waiver of Court Fees (Supreme Court)
- Addendum to Application for Waiver of Court Fees (Supreme Court)
Please note your fee waiver does not need to be filed in-person, but can be e-filed, mailed, or filed through other means allowed by your local court.
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