Family & Safety
Other family and safety issues
Various resources on family and safety.
Forms (4 resources)
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
Use this form to tell the state that your marriage should be annulled and the legal reasons you should be able to annul it.
Form download
Use this form to ask a judge to enforce or modify a divorce or custody judgment from another state.
Form download
Other resources for the public (31 resources)
Explains steps to get an Order of Protection, sometimes called a restraining order. Includes filling out forms and going to court.
How-To
Information about what a parent's duties are to their children after the age of 18 and what parents can do.
Text article
Explains what legal separation is, how it is different from divorce, and how to ask for it.
Text article
Explains when you can fight back if you're attacked or if you feel like you're in danger.
Text article
Lawyer resources (11 resources)
A document for lawyers to reference that has important changes happening to the IMDMA and the Parentage Act in 2016, and child support in 2017.
Text article
Gives information about the types of relief available for abused, neglected, or dependent children.
Lawyer Manuals
Gives information about minor emancipation, and situations where authoritative intervention is required.
Lawyer Manuals
A webpage from the US Department of Justice about human trafficking prosecutions, relevant case law, and resources.
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