Parental Rights and Responsibilities

Parental Rights and Responsibilities
Unmarried Parents

Maine Court Forms

Important Notice: Doing your own court case without a lawyer is hard and not always a good idea. Before going ahead, we advise you to read Divorce and Parental Rights in Maine.

To get your case into court, you must fill out, file, and serve certain court forms. Here is a list of the forms you will need to get your case started.

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Click on the links to get these forms. Use the blank forms if you want to print, then fill out by hand. Use the interactive forms if you want to fill out on line, then print your completed forms.

The child support self-calculating forms will do the math for you. Although you will need more recent versions of Adobe Acrobat to use them, they will make your child support calculations much easier. (Find out more about Acrobat Reader and other .pdf software below.)

FM-082 Parental Rights and Responsibilities Case: What to do with these Court Forms This is not a form but it includes important instructions. Read this first.
FM-002 Confidential Family Matter Summary Sheet	Get blank form	Get interactive form
CV-006 Complaint for Determination of Paternity, Parental Rights and Responsibilities, Child Support	Get blank form	Get interactive form
CV-036 Acknowledgment of Receipt of Summons and Complaint or Post-Judgment Motion	Get blank form	Get interactive form
CV-038 Family Matter Summons and Preliminary Injunction	You must get this form from the court clerk.
FM-040 Child Support Worksheet (Self-calculating version requires Adobe 5.0 or higher)	Get blank form	Get interactive form Get self-calculating form
FM-050 Child Support Affidavit (Self-calculating version requires Adobe 4.0 or higher)	Get blank form	Get interactive form Get self-calculating form
CV-084 Child Support Table This is not a form. Use this table, along with the Child Support Worksheet, to calculate your child support. (If you use the self-calculating Child Support Worksheet, you won't need this table.)
FM-087 Important Information Regarding Case Management Conference This is not a form. This tells you about your first meeting at the court, after you get the court forms filed and served.

Technical stuff
Most computers have Adobe Acrobat Reader, which you can use to view, print or download the blank forms. Or you can fill out the interactive forms on-line, and print your completed form. Click on the form you want and it will open in your Reader. Get more information about downloading and using Adobe Acrobat Reader. For the more complex forms, like the supplemental child support worksheet, we recommend using the most recent version.

Want to save your completed form?
When you fill out our forms using Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can print them. But you won't be able to save them. To save completed forms, we recommend using Foxit ReaderorCutePDF. Find out more about these free or inexpensive software programs.

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