This 120 Day Notice is designed to be used by landlords seeking to terminate a month-to-month lease, pursuant to Chicago’s Fair Notice Ordinance, for a tenant who has resided at the property for more than 2 years. The notice must be hand delivered to a tenant (or individual over the age of 13 years old living with the tenant), prior to initiating an eviction lawsuit.

This document is a standard request for documents from your spouse in an Illinois divorce proceeding. This document is not meant to be filed into your case. When you issue this document, filed send it to the opposing party via email and mail, and file a Certificate of Service with the clerk of the circuit court.

This 60 Day Notice is designed to be used by landlords seeking to terminate a month-to-month lease, pursuant to Chicago’s Fair Notice Ordinance, for a tenant who has resided at the property for more than six months but less than 2 years. The notice must be hand delivered to a tenant (or individual over the age of 13 years old living with the tenant), prior to initiating an eviction lawsuit.

This document is used to schedule a new court date to present a new motion to the court. The court date must be provided by the clerk of the circuit court, unless you already have a future date that you are planning to “piggy back” your presentation date on. This Notice must be sent to all parties in the case to make sure they are notified of the upcoming court date and your motion. Make sure to check your local court rules, and individual judge’s rules, to determine whether your court date should be scheduled in person or on Zoom.

This document is for a married individual who wishes to initiate a divorce action. The document requests the court to divorce the parties, and for the marital assets to be distributed equally. It also contains language for requesting custody (i.e., allocation of parental responsibilities and parenting time for any minor child of the marriage), and, if applicable, for requesting marital support (i.e., maintenance) from the other spouse.

This document notifies the other parties in your case that you have a filed a legal document in your case, such as an Answer, Response, or Certification. Unlike a Notice of Motion, this document simply notifies that other side that you have filed a legal document, it does not notify the other side of a future court date for you to present your legal document to the court. If you are scheduling a court date to present a new Motion, you should use a Notice of Motion.

This notice is for tenants in the City of Chicago who seek to withhold rent due to poor conditions at their rental unit. The notice allows tenants to withhold an amount that “reasonably reflects the reduced value of the premises due to the material noncompliance” if the landlord does not cure the violations within 14 days of receipt of the notice. To use this letter, your rental unit must be governed by the Chicago Residential Landlords and Tenants Ordinance (CRLTO). Buildings that are owner-occupied and have 6 or fewer units are excluded by the CRLTO (i.e., you live in a three flat and your landlord lives on the top floor).

This document is a legal notice for tenants in the City of Chicago who are seeking to terminate a lease due to conditions issues that cause a severe health and safety risk. To use this letter, your rental unit must be governed by the Chicago Residential Landlords and Tenants Ordinance (CRLTO). Buildings that are owner-occupied and have 6 or fewer units are excluded by the CRLTO (i.e., you live in a three flat and your landlord lives on the top floor).

A formal request for the opposing party in a divorce case to answer standard written questions about their employment history, assets and debts, and other important information about the marital estate and divorce proceeding.

This form is an addendum to subpoena to a third party (i.e., a bank or other financial institution), requesting account statements held by an individual.

This form is designed for parents, who are not married to the other parent, and are seeking parental responsibilities and parenting time (i.e., custody) over their minor child.

This legal document is used to transfer an interest in a property from one person to another, without any guarantees regarding the validity of title. It is typically used between trusted individuals (i.e., family members, spouses, etc.).

This 30 Day Notice is designed to be used by landlords seeking to terminate a month-to-month lease. However, in the City of Chicago, certain tenants are entitled to greater than 30 days notice under Chicago’s Fair Notice Ordinance. The notice must be hand delivered to a tenant (or individual over the age of 13 years old living with the tenant), prior to initiating an eviction lawsuit.

This form is designed to be signed by a records custodian at a medical clinic or hospital to authenticate medical records for use in a legal proceeding.

This legal documents is a formal demand for financial records in a divorce, parentage or child support matter, including for proof of income, tax documents, and bank statements.

This Allocation Judgment, also known as a Parenting Plan, is for parents who wish to have equal parenting time (i.e., 50-50 time) and joint decision-making responsibilities over all major issues (i.e., education, healthcare, extracurricular activities, and religion) regarding their minor children.

You can use this draft if you are involved in a custody matter (i.e., parentage or divorce case) in the State of Illinois. The Allocation Judgment must be signed by both parties, and signed and entered by a Judge, for it to be enforceable.

This Motion to Modify Child Support is for a parent who has already been ordered to pay child support to the other parent, and who is now looking to reduce their monthly child support amount due to losing a job, becoming sick, or for some other “substantial change in circumstance” under the law.

This Motion cites 750 ILCS 5/505 and 750 ILCS 5/510, both of which are sections under the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act. The sections can also be used by parties who were never married but who are seeking to modify an exiting child support order.

This Allocation Judgment is designed for instances where the other parent is not appearing in court and has been defaulted. Sole decision-making is therefore awarded to the active parent and the other parent’s parenting time is reserved (i.e., not decided by the Court until an undetermined date in the future).

This Motion is designed to request that the Court order the marital residence (i.e., a house or other real estate purchased during the marriage) to be listed for sale and for the sale proceeds to be divided equally by the parties.

A Petition designed to enforce the payment of child support from the other parent through the “civil contempt” process.

This Marital Settlement Agreement is for a simple divorce in Illinois, where the parties have already divided their joint assets and debts and each spouse just wants to walk away from the divorce with the assets and debts currently in their possession or in their individual names.

To finalize your divorce, your Marital Settlement Settlement will need to be approved by a judge in an open divorce case. A Marital Settlement Agreement is typically approved at a hearing called a prove up hearing. Other documents, such as a Judgment for Dissolution of Marriage, will also be required at your prove up hearing.

This Marital Settlement Agreement is designed for divorce that includes multiple properties and minor children. Specifically, one party is opting to buyout the other party’s share of the marital real estate and the parties are contributing equally to the minor children’s expenses.

This 5 Day Notice is designed to be used by landlords seeking to evict a tenant for unpaid rent. The notice must be hand delivered to a tenant (or individual over the age of 13 years old living with the tenant), prior to initiating the eviction lawsuit. Document automation features are available for Microsoft .word users after installation of the free Add-In, Doc Variables.

This notice is for use by tenants in Illinois who seek to withhold a portion of their rent due to their landlord’s failure to maintain the conditions of a rental unit. This notice can only be used to withhold rent for money that goes towards repairs at the rental unit. It cannot be used if the landlord resides in the same building as the rental unit and there are 6 or fewer units in the building.

The notice is governed by the Illinois Residential Tenants’ Right to Repair Act (765 ILCS 742/5).

This Motion is designed to request that the court appoint a Guardian ad Litem to perform an investigation and make a recommendation to the Court about what’s in the best interests of the minor child. Specifically, the request is for instances where the other party has committed acts of domestic violence in front of the minor child(ren).

This letter helps you demand your security deposit back from your landlord after moving out. It’s based on Illinois law - the Illinois Security Deposit Return Act (765 ILCS 710/1) - and applies to all tenancies in the State of Illinois.

You should not send this letter unless you have vacated the rental unit and at least 45 days have passed since your vacate date. This specific letter applies to instances in which your landlord did not send you an itemized statement of the damages being taken out your security deposit. Your landlord is required to send this document to you within 30 days of you moving out.

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This motion is designed for either a divorce or parentage matter, when one party wants to change a parenting time schedule that was previously entered by a court.

This Marital Settlement Agreement is designed for longer marriages where one party is entitled to maintenance, retirement accounts need to be divided, and vehicles need to be divided.

This motion is designed to be filed by a parent who currently has majority parenting time of their child(ren) and wants to request child support and contribution to child expenses (i.e., out of pocket healthcare, school and extracurricular costs) from the non-majority parent.

The motion can be filed into an ongoing divorce or parentage matter to establish the non-majority parent’s child support obligation and obligation to other child expenses (i.e., out of pocket healthcare, school and extracurricular costs).

The motion cites 750 ILCS 5/501 and 750 ILCS 5/505 of the Illinois Marriage and Dissolution of Marriage Act.

A Motion designed for child support proceedings, where the non-majority parent is unemployed or underemployed, to force that parent to look for a job.

This Complaint is designed to bring a lawsuit against your landlord for failure to properly hold and return your security deposit pursuant to the Chicago Residential Landlords and Tenants Ordinance. The Complaint should be accompanied with a Summons upon filing.

This emergency motion is designed for situations where there other parent has relocated with the minor child (either outside the State of Illinois, or depending on the County between 25-50+ miles away from their current residence), without agreement of the parties or permission from a court, and attempts to enroll the minor child(ren) in a school in a new district.

A Petition designed for the lower earning spouse to request maintenance (i.e., alimony) and contribution to attorney's fees from the higher earning spouse during the earlier stages of an ongoing divorce matter.

A Motion designed to be filed by the lesser earning spouse in a divorce proceeding, when the higher earning spouse is currently unemployed or underemployed (despite a history of earnings greater than the lesser earning spouse).