Forms

You can use Minnesota Guide & File to create the forms you need to Start a Divorce in Minnesota. This online interview helps you decide what type of divorce to file based on your answers and creates all of the forms needed to start a divorce case. This includes a Divorce with Children, Divorce without Children, Joint Divorce with Children, or Joint Divorce without Children. When you finish the interview, print the forms needed to start your divorce. Electronic filing through Guide & File is available for those filing a Joint Divorce. For more information, visit our Guide and File Help Topic.
If you are not interested in using the online Guide & File interview, you can instead use the forms to start a divorce.

If your spouse started the divorce (by giving you a Summons and Petition) and you need to respond, select this option.

Either spouse may use this forms packet to ask for a temporary order on custody, support, or property issues that lasts only until the divorce is finalized.

Forms such as a Summary Real Estate Disposition Judgment (with available Minnesota Judicial Branch instructions) and Quit Claim Deed are published by the Minnesota Department of Commerce. NOTE: These forms are NOT published by the Minnesota Judicial Branch. Talk to an attorney if you have questions about these real estate forms.

These forms may be used for child support issues that come up after the divorce is final. For example, if you want to ask the court to change (modify) child support.

These forms may be used if you want to make a change to an existing custody order or parenting time order OR if you want help from the court in enforcing the order.

These forms are another option that may be used if party is violating a family court order and you want help from the court in enforcing the order without making changes to the order. NOTE: Contempt of Court is NOT for issues involving a spouse failing to pay money as part of a property settlement in the divorce, which involves a legal action for collecting on a judgment.

Divorce/Dissolution