Guided Pathway to make or respond to a motion

CLEO’s Guided Pathway for making or responding to a motion is for people in family court who want to start a motion or respond to a motion.

The pathways ask you questions about your situation, give you information to help answer them, and creates documents based on your answers.

The pathways are free to use. When you’re finished, you can save or print your forms. You will also get instructions about how to give them to the court.

Who is this guided pathway for?

You can use this pathway if you’re waiting for your court case to finish and want to ask the court to make temporary orders about:

• decision-making responsibility, which used to be called child custody
• parenting time, which used to be called child access
• child support
• spousal support
• property division
• other family law orders like a restraining order

You must have already filed an Application or Answer, and been to your first case conference.

Who is the pathway not for?

You should not use this pathway if you have a final court order and want to ask the court to change it.

If you’re not sure whether to use this pathway, talk to a lawyer.

Using the pathway

It can take less than 1 hour or 4 hours or more to complete the pathway depending on your situation and what you’re asking the court for. It can take less time if you have all your documents ready when you start.

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 1 hour of inactivity. You must create an account if you want to save your work on the system or use the other pathways.

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, visit our FAQs page.