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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 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 interview and forms are in English.
To use this program, you must be:
- A father seeking to acknowledge that you are the parent of a child, or
- A mother helping the father of your child to acknowledge parentage.
To complete this program, you will need to know:
- The other parent's address, birth date, and birth place, and
- The child's name and birth date.
If the mother was married to someone other than the father when the child was conceived or born, you also need to know:
- The mother's husband or ex-husband's address, birth date, and birth place, and,
- The date of their marriage.
This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.
- Instructions
- Illinois Voluntary Acknowledgment of Paternity
- Illinois Denial of Paternity
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