Missouri’s Free Family Law Court Forms

The Missouri Court’s website has FREE forms available, approved by the Missouri Supreme Court, for use by people needing/wanting to represent themselves in court. The forms are lengthy, fill-in-the-blank, and FREE. There will still be expenses: filing fees, service fees, etc., but these documents have been approved for the public to use if a person plans to represent themselves. Did I mention that the forms were FREE? You can use these forms, rather than hiring an attorney, and rather than using this website for drafting your documents. I will say again that it is always in your best interest to have an attorney, but we recognize that sometimes that is not feasible. I have had prospective clients show up at, or call my office, with these forms in hand, confused or scared. There is a lot to them. But they are available for public use.

These forms can be found at www.courts.mo.gov. Find the link to Court Forms at the top of the page. For our purposes here, you are looking for Family Law Forms, but there are other forms available as well. There is a thirty-minute video available in the Family Law Forms under Litigant Awareness Program that offers details about the process for representing yourself, as well as links to additional information. Upon completion of the video, you can print a certificate stating you watched the video, and the courts are likely going to want you to provide that certificate with your documents. Even if you are hiring this firm to put your documents together for you, you should still watch this video and produce the certificate for the court.  The video contains valuable information about the process you are getting ready to embark on.