Self-Help Resources / Families and Children

Families and Children

  1. Information about adoption and adoption forms 
  2. Adopting a minor stepchild
  3. Adopting an adult
  4. Motion to Intervene in Adoption
  5. Child and Family Services Adoption Program
  6. Indian Child Welfare Act information
    The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a federal law that governs foster placement and adoptions involving Native American children.
  7. Tribal Rights in Juvenile Court under ICWA
  8. Opening a court adoption record
  9. Utah Legal Services – Adoption

  1. Custody cases
  2. Types of child custody
  3. Standard parent-time schedules
  4. Custody evaluation
  5. Parent coordinators
  6. Temporary order
  7. Informal trial of support, custody and parent-time
  8. Modifying a child custody order
  9. Paternity
  10. Enforcing a child custody order (Order toShow Cause)
  11. Parenting plans
  12. Registering a non-Utah custody order
  13. Service of Divorce/Custody Papers in Mexico
  14. Required classes for parents

  1. Learn about child support
  2. Child support calculator
  3. Temporary order
  4. Informal trial of support, custody and parent-time
  5. Modifying a child support order
  6. Enforcing a child support order (Order to Show Cause)
  7. Registering a non-Utah child support order
  8. Registering an Office of Recovery Services (ORS) Support Order
  9. Paternity and parentage
  10. Office of Recovery Services (ORS)

  1. Learn about divorce
  2. Service of Divorce/Custody Papers in Mexico
  3. Answering a divorce petition
  4. Mandatory divorce mediation
  5. Can I be excused from mediation?
  6. Temporary orders while separated
  7. Financial declaration
  8. Mandatory divorce waiting period

Divorce and Children

  1. Child support
  2. Child custody and visitation (parent-time)
  3. Creating parenting plans for our children
  4. Required classes for parents
  5. Informal trial of support, custody and parent-time

Divorce and Alimony and Property Division

  1. Receiving alimony
  2. Dividing debt in a divorce
  3. Dividing property in a divorce

After Divorce

  1. Modification of a Divorce Decree
  2. Motion to Enforce Order

  1. Enforcing a domestic order (Order to Show Cause)

  1. Establishing fact of birth

  1. General guardianship and conservatorship information for an adult or minor
  2. Required reports
  3. Ending a guardianship or conservatorship

  1. Getting married
  2. Judicial recognition of a relationship as a marriage (Common law marriage)

  1. Name or sex change for an adult (Gender Marker Change)
  2. Name or sex change for a minor child (Gender Marker Change)

  1. Parent-time
  2. Standard parent-time schedules
  3. Parent coordinators
  4. Temporary order
  5. Modifying a parent-time order
  6. Enforcing a parent-time order (Order toShow Cause)
  7. Registering a non-Utah parent-time order
  8. Parenting plans
  9. Informal trial of support,custody and parent-time

  1. Petition for essential treatment and intervention
  2. Planning for Family Emergencies, Including Deportation

  1. Special Findings for At-Risk Noncitizen Children (SIJ)

  1. Temporary delegation of parental authority

  1. Temporary separation
  2. Separate maintenance
  3. Required classes for parents (temporary separation cases)
  4. Annulment

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Self Help Resources
Preparing forms

The Online Court Assistance Program (OCAP) helps you to create forms to file with the court by answering questions in an online interview.

The Online Court Assistance Program (OCAP) helps you to create forms to file with the court by answering questions in an online interview.

Programs available:

  • Domestic Relations (such as divorce, custody, and support)
  • Enforcing Domestic Orders
  • Guardian and Conservatorship (for minors and adults)
  • Protective/Stalking Orders
  • Garnishment
  • Landlords and Tenants
  • Small Claims

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Getting help

The Utah State Courts' Self-Help Center (SHC) provides free legal help to people who do not have a lawyer.

The SHC provides information to help you understand your rights and responsibilities, and to help you resolve your legal problems on your own if you cannot afford an attorney or if you choose not to hire one.

The Utah State Courts' Self-Help Center (SHC) provides free legal help to people who do not have a lawyer.

The SHC provides information to help you understand your rights and responsibilities, and to help you resolve your legal problems on your own if you cannot afford an attorney or if you choose not to hire one.

Self-Help Center staff attorneys can:

  • answer questions about the law, court process and options
  • provide court forms and instructions and help completing forms
  • provide information about your case
  • provide information about mediation services, legal advice and representation through pro bono and low cost legal services, legal aid programs and lawyer referral services
  • provide information about resources provided by law libraries
A Few Cautions
  • The SHC cannot give you legal advice or represent you in court.
  • The SHC attorney is not your lawyer.

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