GETTING STARTED:
The Florida State Courts System’s Self-Help Center is your online guide to help direct you through the court system. The role of the self-help center staff is to direct interested individuals to the self-help website where they can explore resources needed to represent themselves, access the courts, and other essential resources. Self-Help staff cannot provide legal interpretations or advice. The self-help website includes family law forms approved by the Florida Supreme Court. Additional resources include a directory of local self-help centers, web links to free and low cost legal aid, mediator search capabilities, and guardianship resources. For more Information Click Here
To understand HOW THE FORMS WORK Click Here. Also, you need to Read These Forms First, and you may want to Apply for Civil Indigent Status.
IMPORTANT: Before receiving services from a self-help program or court staff, please read through the NOTICE OF LIMITATIONS OF SERVICES Disclaimer. Self-help programs and court staff function under certain service limitations. For example, they can assist you administratively and procedurally but are not able to act as your lawyer or give you legal advice. This disclaimer sets out the limit of services from self-help program and court staff.
Press Ctrl+F to FIND a Form (using key words)
Below is a “Quick Links” list to Forms by Category OR Click Here to go to the entire list of forms:
- Alimony
- Discovery (Discovery is the pre-trial phase in a case in which each party can obtain evidence from the opposing party.)
- Dissolution of Marriage (Divorce)
- Domestic, Repeat, Sexual or Dating Violence; Stalking
- Judgments and Orders
- Judicial Waiver of Parental Notice (See Rules of Juvenile Procedure in Florida Rules of Court)
- Motions
- Name Change
- Parenting Coordinator
- Parenting Plan
- Paternity / Disestablishment of Paternity
- Procedural (refers to the process by which a court hears and determines what happens in a case)
- Relocation
- Representation Forms, Petitions, Supplemental (Modification) Petitions, Answers, and Supporting Documents
- Self-Represented Litigants
- Service (the requirement for one party to formally notify the other party of the lawsuit)
- Step-Parent Adoption
- Temporary/Concurrent Custody
- Time-Sharing
Still Having Difficulties?
Contact the Florida State Courts System’s Self-Help Center at selfhelp@flcourts.org if you have a question about any of the following:
- Cannot find a form you need
- Have difficulty downloading the form
- Have a DISABILITY and cannot use the form in its current state
