How to prepare a caption for your family law related pleadings and motions.

When filing a family law related pleading or motion you will need to start your document off with something known as a “Caption”. The caption usually contains the following information:
1. A case or cause number;
2. A notice that the document contains sensitive, personal information;
3. The names of the petitioner and respondent;
4. A title to the document you are filing;
5. The title and location of the court in which the suit is filed; and
6. If the suit will affect a minor child, then add wording that states: open quote “AND IN THE INTEREST OF _________, A CHILD” end quote. In the example shown below, this added wording would appear on the left side column right below the words “JANE DOE, RESPONDENT”;
Now, it is important to know that if you are filing a suit where you are seeking to void a marriage, then the caption is going to read differently. In the above example, you delete the words: “IN THE MATTER OF THE MARRIAGE OF” and replace them with “A SUIT TO DECLARE VOID THE MARRIAGE OF”.
Also, if there is a suit affecting the parent-child relationship and no marriage is involved, then the caption is going to look like the example below:
Please know that adoption related proceedings may be handled differently and are beyond the scope of this video. This brings us almost to the end of our session.
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