How This Website Can Help You
WHAT YOU CAN LEARN HERE:
- How to get an order from the Court for child support
- Raise or reduce child support
- Respond to a Department of Child Support Services Child Support action
- Get a court order for custody or visitation
- Change a court order for custody or visitation
- File for a divorce or finalize a divorce
- How to get a court order for spousal support
- Change a court order for spousal support
- Information on how to obtain a restraining order
- Obtain information about Child Custody Recommending Counseling
- Determine fees for filing documents with the Court
- Apply for a waiver of filing fees
- Obtain telephone numbers and locations of Family Court offices
- Get assistance, information, forms, or Self Service guides from other sources
WHAT YOU CAN DO HERE:
- Fill out documents for Family Court
- Receive information on how to obtain family law information packets (there may be a cost for some of the forms)
- Review local rules of court governing family law in Alameda County
- See or print a map of how to locate courthouses with family law services
- Receive information regarding direct fax filing
- Review a diagram of how family law cases usually flow through the Court
- Print forms that you can then fill out and file in the Family Court
- Review or print the fee schedule
- View Parent Orientation to Child Custody Recommending Counseling
- Request a Child Custody Recommending Counseling appointment
WHAT YOU CANNOT DO HERE:
- Receive legal advice
- Electronically file documents in the Family Court
- File to get a restraining order (You must come to Family Court to file your documents; you cannot file them online).
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