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Prepare a focused family-court case summary.
Build my case summary →New free toolOrganize the issues, events, supporting records, and questions for a self-help or limited-scope lawyer meeting.
Build your California divorce timeline.
Open the timeline builder →New free toolTurn the dates you can verify into a private visual case map—with no uploads or deadline predictions.
List your family-court documents.
Build my inventory →Local court guidesSeparate copies you have from records to find and filing, delivery, or order status that still needs verification.
Find the right official family-court resource.
Choose a county →For public-service organizationsUse a local guide with official court links for California’s six most populous counties, or open the statewide finder for any county.
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Review the referral toolkit →Free tools, official court links, and reusable directory data for law libraries, legal-aid teams, public libraries, and community organizations.
County court guides
Local routes for California’s largest courts.
Choose a county to reach its official family-court, self-help, case-access and filing information—with the limits of each source kept visible.
Los Angeles12 family-law courthousesOpen local guide →San DiegoFour regional divisionsOpen local guide →OrangeLamoreaux Justice CenterOpen local guide →RiversideFour family-law locationsOpen local guide →San BernardinoDistrict-specific servicesOpen local guide →SacramentoRidgeway Family Relations CourthouseOpen local guide →
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Get to an official destination, decode a returned filing or check a disclosure packet without starting a CourtAhead case.
Understand why a filing came back.
Select the reason on the notice, keep receipt separate from acceptance and build a focused correction checklist.
Decode the rejection →See what the financial packet may still need.
Check the main forms, supporting financial records, and proof of exchange privately in your browser.
Check the disclosure packet →Urgent event guides
What just happened?
Begin with the event you recognize, then move into the exact forms and verification steps.
You were served divorce papers. What now?
Identify the packet, preserve service facts, understand the usual response timing and find official free help.
Read the complete guide →Your FL-120 was filed. Keep the next tracks separate.
Verify service, proof of service, financial disclosures and the path toward agreement or trial.
Map what happens next →More than 30 days may have passed.
Check the court record before assuming whether a Response can still be filed or default was entered.
Check the status sequence →You received FL‑300. Start with page 1.
Find the hearing, separate requested orders from current orders and map the FL‑320 response track.
Map the hearing request →Prepare the record before the argument.
Verify the notice, organize each issue and source, arrange court access and plan for the signed order.
Prepare for the hearing →The hearing ended. Read the signed order next.
Compare the requests, hearing record and complete order without mistaking one for another.
Understand the written order →The court rejected or returned a filing.
Preserve the notice, correct the stated issue and verify the new submission from the court record.
Build the correction path →Your disclosure is a packet—not one form.
Gather the supporting financial records, map FL‑140, FL‑150, and FL‑142 or FL‑160, then keep exchange and filing status distinct.
Understand the disclosure packet →California form guides
Read the form in its actual case context.
Each guide explains what the form does, what it cannot prove and which record usually supports the next status.
Petition—Marriage/Domestic Partnership
What the petitioner is asking the court to decide and why a request is not a ruling.
Understand FL-100 →Summons (Family Law)
The response warning, immediate family-law rules and service facts to verify separately.
Understand FL-110 →Response—Marriage/Domestic Partnership
Why completing, filing and serving a Response are three different events.
Understand FL-120 →Schedule of Assets and Debts
The private disclosure inventory, supporting records and boundary between a party’s position and a court finding.
Understand FL-142 →Income and Expense Declaration
The form’s four pages, supporting records and separate disclosure and hearing uses.
Understand FL-150 →Property Declaration
How disclosure, Petition, Response, default and judgment uses change the columns and destination.
Understand FL-160 →Request for Order
The hearing, requested issues, possible temporary orders and service stages that must stay separate.
Understand FL-300 →Responsive Declaration
The usual response timing, issue-specific attachments and boundary between a position and a ruling.
Understand FL-320 →How can a family-law case unfold?
A visual, non-linear overview of filing, service, temporary orders, disclosures and judgment.
View the case overview →Organize the case record
Make the sources easier to trust—and easier to find.
Useful organization keeps the original, working copy, filing, service and court outcome connected without collapsing them into one status.
Bring the case—not the chaos.
Prepare a focused brief from the records you have for court self-help or a lawyer consultation, then ask for the kind of help that meeting can provide.
Prepare for the meeting →What do I have—and what is still missing?
Build a private inventory of common court, service, financial, hearing, evidence and order records.
Inventory my documents →Connect each important fact to the record that supports it.
Keep originals, create traceable working copies, and track filing, delivery, and court status separately.
Organize family-court evidence →Turn the organized record into a hearing plan.
Add the hearing, custody, evidence, remote, interpreter, accessibility and safety checks that apply.
Build my hearing checklist →A smaller library on purpose
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