Family & Safety

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Help ILAO open opportunities for justice

This program will help you prepare your documents. It will ask you questions and you will enter your answers. At the end of the program, you will get a completed set of court forms with instructions that you can save and print.

Form completion time: 20 minutes to 30 minutes

You will be able to save your work in the middle of the program.

This program will help you avoid mistakes when filling out the court forms. Your case could be delayed if there are errors in your forms. If you want to download and print a PDF version, visit the Illinois Courts Standardized State Forms website. Use Adobe Reader to fill in the PDF forms.

The interview and forms are in English.

Can I use this program?

These forms can be used to change the name of up to 4 minor children.

To use these forms, the following must be true:

You must be 18 or older, and
You must have lived in Illinois for at least 6 months.

Also, you must have one of the following relationships with the minor children:

Be the parent with custody,
Be a guardian with legal custody, or
The children have lived in your home for 3 years and are recognized as your adopted children.

What do I need first?

To use these forms, you will need:

The name, birth date, address, birthplace, and criminal history of the children, and
The name and address of the other parents or people with physical custody of the children.

What documents will this create?

This program prepares the following forms. The forms you get will depend on your answers.

How to Change a Name (For Minor Children)
Request for Name Change (Minor Name Change)
Request for Name Change - Child Information
Request for Name Change - Additional Parent
Additional Children Request for Name Change
Request for Name Change - Additional Criminal History
Notice of Court Date for Request for Name Change (Minor Name Change)
Publication Notice of Court Date for Request for Name Change (Minor Name Change)
Motion to Waive Notice and Publication (Request for Name Change)
Order on Motion to Waive Notice & Publication (Request for Name Change)
Order for Name Change (Minor Name Change)

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