Guided Pathway for simple or joint divorce: Form 8A

CLEO’s Family Law Guided Pathways help you fill out the court forms you need for your family law matter.

You can use this pathway if:

• You’re applying for a divorce by yourself, and are asking the court for a divorce only. This means that you can’t use the pathways if you’re asking for orders about spousal support, child support, decision-making responsibility, parenting time, or a division of property.
• You’re applying for a divorce with your spouse. You can also ask the court to make orders about spousal support, child support, decision-making responsibility, and parenting time, if you and your spouse agree on these issues.

Decision-making responsibility and parenting time used to be called custody and access.

The pathway asks you questions, gives you information to help answer them, and puts your answers into the required forms. The pathway is free to use.

When you’re finished, you can save or print your forms. You will also get instructions about how to give these forms to the court.

• you’re married
• you or your spouse have lived in Ontario for the last year
• you’ve been separated for at least one year
• you and your spouse have a court order about child support or reasonable arrangements have been made for the support of the children
• you want to apply for a divorce on your own (simple divorce) or together with your spouse (joint divorce)

• a certified copy of your marriage certificate
• copies of agreements, court orders, Notice of Calculation, and Notices of Recalculation
• your date of marriage and dates that you lived together
• birth dates, names and previous divorce information for you and your spouse
• information about any children you and your spouse have

It can take as little as 15 minutes to complete the pathways for a simple divorce, if you have all the information you need to answer the questions. It will take longer in more complicated situations.

You can sign up to create an account or use the pathways as a guest. If you choose not to create an account, the system will time out after 4 hours. You must create an account if you want to save your work on the system or use the pathways for orders about spousal support, child support, decision-making responsibility or parenting time.

All of the information that you enter into the pathways is confidential. CLEO will not give your personal information to anyone unless you ask us to do this. Read more in the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Need help?

If you need help using the Guided Pathways, or have questions contact support@cleo.on.ca.

This guided pathway does not give you legal advice. For advice about your situation, talk to a lawyer.

Family Law Guided Pathways

• Family Law Guided Pathways
• Family dispute resolution options
• Financial planning for separation
• Separation with other issues
• Simple or joint divorce
• Filing your support agreement
• Answering a family law application
• Replying to an answer
• Case conference
• Settlement conference
• Making or responding to a motion
• Emergency motion
• Net family property forms
• Requesting a motion to change
• Responding to a motion to change
• Requesting a motion to change on consent
• Trial management conference
• Drafting an order
• Requesting a court fee waiver

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