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 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.

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 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 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.

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 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 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.

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.

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

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 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).