Form Fl 100 – Fill Out and Use This PDF

Under PARTY WITHOUT ATTORNEY OR ATTORNEY, enter your NAME, STREET ADDRESS, CITY, STATE, ZIP CODE, TELEPHONE NO. and E-MAIL ADDRESS. If a lawyer represents you, enter the lawyer's details and STATE BAR NUMBER instead, and your name after ATTORNEY FOR.

Enter the county after SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF, then the court's STREET ADDRESS, MAILING ADDRESS, CITY AND ZIP CODE and BRANCH NAME.

Enter the PETITIONER (you) and the RESPONDENT (your spouse or domestic partner). Pages 2 and 3 repeat the PETITIONER, RESPONDENT and CASE NUMBER lines. Leave FOR COURT USE ONLY blank.

Check one type of case: Dissolution (Divorce), Legal Separation or Nullity. On the same line, check Marriage or Domestic Partnership.

Check AMENDED only if you are changing a petition you have already filed.

Check every box that applies: a. if you are married, b. if you are domestic partners and your partnership was established in California, or c. if you are domestic partners and your partnership was NOT established in California.

Check a. and mark Petitioner, Respondent or both for each person who has lived in California for at least six months and in this county for at least three months right before you file. The form says that for a divorce at least one of you must meet this requirement, unless your domestic partnership was established in California (item 1b.).

Check b. if your domestic partnership was established in California. Neither of you then has to live in California to end the partnership here.

Check c. if you are a same-sex couple who married in California but now live where the marriage is not recognized and will not be dissolved. The petition is then filed in the county where you married. Enter where the petitioner lives and where the respondent lives.

For a marriage, check a. and enter (1) the date of marriage, (2) the date of separation and (3) the time between the two, in years and months.

For a domestic partnership, check b. and enter (1) the registration date with the California Secretary of State or the other state's equivalent, (2) the date of separation and (3) the time between the two, in years and months.

Check a. if there are no minor children. Otherwise check b. and list each child's name, birthdate and age. Check (1) if the list continues on Attachment 4b, and (2) if a child is not yet born.

Item c. tells you the court can find that children born before the marriage or domestic partnership are children of the marriage or partnership. Item d. is the reminder to attach form FL-105.

Check e. if you and the respondent signed a voluntary declaration of parentage or paternity, and attach a copy if you have one.

Items 5 to 11 are the orders you ask the court to make. For a divorce or a legal separation, check a. and one ground: (1) irreconcilable differences or (2) permanent legal incapacity to make decisions.

For a nullity, check b. if the marriage or partnership is void because of (1) incest or (2) bigamy. Check c. if it is voidable because of (1) the petitioner's age at the time of the marriage or registration, (2) a prior existing marriage or domestic partnership, (3) unsound mind, (4) fraud, (5) force or (6) physical incapacity.

For a. legal custody and b. physical custody, mark who you ask the court to give it to: Petitioner, Respondent, Joint or Other. For c. visitation (parenting time), mark Petitioner, Respondent or Other.

If you set out the details on another form, check it after As requested in: form FL-311, FL-312, FL-341(C), FL-341(D), FL-341(E) or Attachment 6c(1).

Items a. to c. are notices with no box to check. The court makes child support orders when a party asks and submits the financial forms. An earnings assignment may be issued without further notice. Overdue support carries interest at the legal rate.

Check d. to ask for anything else about child support, and specify it.

Check a. to ask for support payable to the petitioner or the respondent. Check b. to end the court's ability to award support to one of you. Check c. to leave the question of support for one of you to be decided later. Check d. for any other request, and specify it.

Check a. if there are no assets or debts you know of for the court to confirm as separate property.

Otherwise check b. and list them in a Property Declaration (form FL-160), in Attachment 9b, or in the list on the form, giving each item and who it should be confirmed to.

Check a. if there are no community or quasi-community assets or debts you know of for the court to divide.

Otherwise check b. and list them in a Property Declaration (form FL-160), in Attachment 10b, or on the form after as follows.

Check a. to ask for attorney's fees and costs, and mark whether the petitioner or the respondent should pay them. Check b. to have the petitioner's former name restored, and enter the name. Check c. for any other request. Check Continued on Attachment 11c if you need more room.

Item 12 says you have read the restraining orders on the back of the Summons and understand that they apply to you as soon as the petition is filed.

You declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the form is true and correct. Enter the Date, type or print your name, and sign. If you have an attorney, the attorney dates and signs the second line.