Self-Help Legal Issues

The Self-Help program can assist self-represented litigants with a variety of legal issues, including:

• Child Support
• Order to Show Cause - Child Custody & Visitation
  • Contempt
  • Modification/Changes to
  • Existing Orders
• Notice of Motion
  • Set Aside Voluntary Declaration of Paternity
  • Set Aside Default Paternity
• Paternity/Parentage
• Name Change of
  • Child(ren)
  • Self (adult)
• Stipulated Judgments
• Responses
  • Dissolutions
  • Paternity
  • Order to Show Cause
  • Notice of Motion
• Simplified Financial Statements
• Judgments (Default, Uncontested, Contested, Stipulated)

• Dissolution/Legal Separation/Annulments
• Summary Dissolution
  • Petition for Custody and Support of Minor Children
• Disclosure Documents (Dissolution)
• Judgments (Contested/Uncontested)
• Small Claims (Plaintiff and Defendant)
• Restraining Orders (and responses)
  • Civil Harassment
  • Domestic Violence
  • Elder Abuse/Workplace Violence
• Evictions/Unlawful Detainer (Tenant and Landlord)
• Bifurcation of Marital Status
• Set aside of default (family law matters)
• Change of venue
• Expungement
• Procedural information about court and forms
• Income and Expense Declarations
• Stipulations
• Guardianship/Guardianship Terminations (Probate)
  • Special workshops for grandparents and elderly
  • Alternatives to Guardianship
• Step parent adoptions (with signed, uncontested consent of biological parent)
• Emancipation (of Minor)