SSC: Responding to a Legal Separation When No Children are Involved

Superior Court RESPONDING TO A LEGAL SEPARATION WHEN NO MINOR CHILDREN ARE INVOLVED

ATTENTION: Use the forms on this page if the following factors apply to your situation:

You want to file a response to a petition for legal separation AND,
You and your spouse have no minor children with each other AND the wife is not pregnant by the husband or will not be pregnant by the husband before the Judge signs the Legal Separation Decree, AND ,
You do not agree with what your spouse wrote in the Petition.

This packet contains the court form and instructions for responding to a legal separation petition and other papers when there are no minor children. Be sure the documents are in the following order:

Packets contain ALL forms and ALL instructions needed for this process. Where there are separate packets for Instructions and Forms, get BOTH packets.

Packets
Title	File	English	Spanish
Responding to a Petition for Legal Separation When No Minor Children are Involved - Instructions	DRLSA3i	PDF	PDF
Responding to a Petition for Legal Separation When No Minor Children are Involved - Forms	DRLSA3f	PDF	PDF

The individual forms and instructions below are already included in the Packet(s) above. If you choose to download the documents individually, make sure you get ALL of the instructions and ALL of the forms. Be sure the documents are in the following order:

Instructions
Order	Title	File	English	Spanish
1	Helpful Information: How to file a Response to a Petition for Legal Separation Without Minor Children	drlsa31h	PDF \| Word	PDF \| Word
2	How to respond to file Legal Separation Without Children papers with the court	drlsa31i	PDF \| Word	PDF \| Word
3	Procedures: When and How to File Your Response to the Petition	dr31p	PDF \| Word	PDF \| Word
4	When and How to Use the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Statement to the Court	drad10h	PDF \| Word	PDF \| Word

Forms
Order	Title	File	English	Spanish
1	Family Court/Sensitive Data Sheet	drsds10f-a	PDF \| Word	PDF \| Word
2	Response to Petition for Legal Separation Without Minor Children	drlsa31f	PDF \| Word	PDF \| Word
3	Alternative Dispute Resolution Statement to the Court	drad10f	PDF \| Word	PDF \| Word

The Judicial Branch of Arizona, Maricopa County