The Family Law Facilitator is an attorney who can help you to represent yourself in limited family law matters. You can get help with an existing case or in starting a case. You can get help if you are the petitioner or the respondent.

If you work with the Family Law Facilitator, you are responsible for processing your own case. The Facilitator can help you to select the proper legal forms and to complete them, serve them and get them filed with the clerk's office. If you need to go to court to present your case to a judge or commissioner, however, you will present your case alone.

The Family Law Facilitator can give you procedural direction in the following types of cases:

• Department of Child Support Services (formerly known as District Attorney's Family Support Division) child support cases, and
• Dissolution (divorce), legal separation, nullity (annulment) and paternity cases:
  
  • Child support issues
  • Spousal support issues
  • Child custody and visitation issues (limited assistance available)
  • Initiating or finalizing a case (limited assistance available)