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Custody Forms
This page contains forms with regards to custody orders.
Please read the packets' descriptions and instructions carefully and thoroughly.
It is recommeneded that the video in the below link be viewed prior to filling out a custody packet.
The custody packets include instructions on how to fill out the forms and how to file with the Prothonotary.
Custody Complaint Flow Chart: A flow chart which outlines the legal process you will go through from the filng of a complaint through entry of a final court order.
Custody Complaint Flow Chart
Stipulation to Custody: When the parties are in agreement about custody, this kit gives the parties the paperwork to write up their custody agreement and have it turned into a court order without coming to court. This kit can be used for a new custody order, or to modify an exisiting custody order.
Stipulation to Custody Kit (Rev. 1/25)
Complaint for Custody: To ask for some type of custody when there is no existing custody order.
Complaint for Custody Kit (Rev. 7/25)
Modification of Custody Kit: To ask that an existing custody order be changed.
Modification of Custody Kit (Rev. 7/25)
Petition for Special Relief: To ask the court to make a decision when the parties are in disagreement over a particular issue, such as where the child should go to school or whether the child should play a sport. NOTE: To use this form, there must be an existing custody order in place.
Petition for Special Relief Kit (Rev. 1/25)
Contempt of Custody Kit: To ask the court to enforce a custody order or punish a party for violating an existing custody order.
Contempt of Custody Kit (Rev. 7/25)
Petition to Intervene and Modify: For a third party, who is not the parent, to request some type of custody, where there is already a custody order between the parents. (If there is not an order between the parents, the third party must instead file a Complaint for Custody and name both parents as the defendants; the third party will be responsible for serving the paperwork on both parents.) Also read the Rules of Standing Information Kit, below.
Petition to Intervene and Modify Custody Kit (Rev. 7/25)
Affidavit Of Accountability Of Supervisor For Full Supervision (Rev. 4/25)
Criminal-Abuse History Verification Form (6/25)
Custody Relocation Kit: To file for permission to relocate your child(ren).
Custody Relocation Kit (Rev. 1/25)
Custody Pre-Trial Memo: Forms to file a Pre-trial Memo with the Prothonotary.
Custody Pre-trial Memo (Rev. 12/18)
Rules of Standing Information Kit: Rules about who can file for custody. This is recommended reading for third parties who are not parents of the child but wish to file for custody of the child.
Rules of Standing for Custody (Rev. 7/18)
Motion to Transfer Venue in a custody case: Use these forms to ask the court to transfer an existing custody case to another county when the children no longer live in Lycoming County.
Motion to Transfer Venue in a Custody Case Kit
Custody Trial Preparation Self-Help Kit: Instructions and forms for the documents required by a custody pre-trial order to be submitted prior to a custody trial.
Trial Preparation Self-Help Kit
Praecipe to Withdraw Custody Filing: Use this form to ask the courts to withdraw an already filed custody motion.
Conference Withdraw Form
SUPPORT
Domestic Relations - DRO Information and Forms
Filing Exceptions: To appeal a Support Order (child support, spousal support, alimony pendent lite) issued by a Family Court Hearing Officer.
Filing Exceptions to a Support Order Kit (Rev. 5/20)
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