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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: 15 minutes to 30 minutes
You will not be able to save your work in the middle of the program.
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The interview and forms are in English.
To use this program, all of the following must be true:
- You and your spouse must agree on all of the terms of the dissolution,
- You must agree that your marriage/civil union has broken down and cannot be repaired,
- You must file court forms and appear in court together with your spouse,
- You or your spouse must be a resident of Illinois for the past 90 days,
- You or your spouse must be a resident of Cook County,
- You and your spouse must currently be living separate and apart,
- Your marriage/civil union cannot be longer than 8 years,
- You cannot have any children with your spouse,
- You or your spouse must not be pregnant by the other spouse, or in the process of adopting a child,
- You or your spouse cannot own any real estate,
- You and your spouse cannot hold any retirement benefits jointly and the combined value of any benefits either of you hold individually must be less than $10,000,
- The total marital property, minus debts, must be less than $50,000,
- You or your spouse individually cannot make more than $30,000 per year, before taxes,
- You and your spouse together cannot make more $60,000 per year, before taxes,
- You or your spouse must not depend on each other for support,
- You and your spouse must agree to waive the right to support,
- You and your spouse must disclose your tax returns to each other for each year of the marriage/civil union, and
- You and your spouse must agree to divide all property you got during the marriage/civil union that is worth more than $100, and all debts taken on during the marriage/civil union.
To complete this program, you will need to know:
- Your spouse's current address,
- You and your spouse's yearly income, and
- The value of the property and debts you got during the marriage or civil union.
This program prepares the following forms:
- Domestic Relations Division Cover Sheet
- Joint Petition for Simplified Dissolution
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