Washington State Court Forms
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Court Forms dialog
In the "Court Forms" dialog window, you have four options. By
default, the selection "With Dependent Children" and
"No Dependent Children" has default forms selected. You may use
this as a quick starting point unselecting forms not required or selecting
additional forms you require. Alternatively, you may start with
"Individual Forms" selection, which requires you to select each form
needed.
Court Forms dialog
Individual Forms Selections
As shown in Figure 1, when you select the option "Individual
Forms", additional selections become available allowing you to choose
the forms you require. In the selection box "Select Individual forms
required:" as shown in Figure 2 has two selections that if
selected will present you with additional selection boxes and forms.
Figure 1
Figure 2
Summons & Personal Service
In Figure 2 above notice "Summons & Personal Service - View
additional forms" is selected. This adds the additional selection box
in red, "Select Type of Service required:"
to the dialog . When a selection or question is in red it is required to be
answered; therefore, we need to select one of the options to continue. If you
don't need a summons unselect "Summons & Personal Service - View
additional forms".
Figure 3 - Personal Service selected
Figure 4 - Service By Mail selected
Figure 5 - Service By Publication selected
County Specific Forms
Notice the selection box titled "LINCOLN COUNTY FORMS" in the
Figure 1. In this example, we selected "Lincoln County Superior
Court" during the "County of"
court dialog . Also, notice the photo below Figure 3, there is
not an option for the "Verification Form" as required by
Lincoln County Superior Court. Instead the program adds it by default to
the end of the "Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law".
Figure 3
Petition
You may be wondering, why only one petition is available and does not appear to
be specific. In a previous dialog , we selected the type of case we were
creating for this example. In this case, "Married Couple" and
"Petition for Dissolution of Marriage"; therefore, the program is
responding to our selection. See, Type
of Service Required.
With Dependent Children
When selecting "With Dependent Children" the following forms in
Figure 6 are selected by default. You can unselect any forms not
required or select additional forms. All forms selected will be assembled one
after another beginning with the petition.
Figure 6
No Dependent Children
When selecting "No Dependent Children" the following forms in
Figure 7 are selected by default. You can unselect any forms not
required or select additional forms. All forms selected will be assembled in the
present interview.
Figure 7
Subsequent to Selecting
Your Court Forms
In the Figure 8 below, to demonstrate the actions of the software,
we have selected "With Dependent Children" in the dialog Window leaving the defaulted forms selected.
Figure 8
Once selected, select the next button located above the Resource Window,
as shown in Figure 9.
Figure 9
Notice the additional dialogs inserted in the Interview Window
of
Figure 10. These dialogs pertain to the Petition Template.
The program distinguishes from the forms selected in Figure 8 that
the dialogs for the petition should be asked first.
Figure 10
Continue to Petition...