How it works

State courts publish hundreds of official forms, but their websites list them by form number and committee jargon. LitigationForms indexes those same official forms and organizes them around what people are actually dealing with — an eviction, a divorce, a protective order, a small claims dispute.

Where the forms come from

• California: the Judicial Council of California’s statewide forms, including the translations it publishes.
• Texas: forms published by the Texas Judicial Branch, plus legal-aid forms from TexasLawHelp.org, which are always labeled as such.
• Florida: the Florida Supreme Court–approved family law forms.
• Michigan: forms approved by the State Court Administrative Office, with their court-rule citations.
• Illinois: the Illinois Supreme Court’s approved statewide form suites, with the court’s own instructions.
• Washington: pattern forms from the Administrative Office of the Courts, including published translations.
• Federal: national forms from the United States Courts — bankruptcy, civil (including pro se) and criminal.

We never rehost or alter forms. Every download link goes to the court’s (or legal-aid publisher’s) own file, so you always get the version they currently publish.

How we keep it current

Our crawler re-reads each court’s forms index weekly and fingerprints every form file. When a file or its effective date changes, we record a revision and note what changed in the Form Change Tracker. When a form disappears from the court’s list, we mark it withdrawn rather than silently dropping it.

How summaries are written

Plain-English summaries, case-stage labels and common questions are drafted by a language model that reads only the court’s listing and the form’s own text. Drafts are automatically checked for neutral wording — they describe what a form is and when it’s used, and never tell you what to do. The official form and the court’s instructions always control.

What we are not

We are not a court, a government agency, or a law firm, and nothing here is legal advice. If you need help deciding what to file, contact a legal aid organization or a licensed attorney in your state.