FILE YOUR DOCUMENTS. Now you can go to the Prothonotary’s office in the courthouse. Tell the staff that you are there to file a new custody case with a signed agreement and give them your papers. If you cannot afford the filing fee, you will need to get the court’s permission to waive the filing fee. Follow the instruction in the IFP SELF- HELP PACKAGE to ask the court to waive the filing fee. After you have either paid the filing fee or the court has waived the filing fee, you can submit your other paperwork. The Prothonotary’s Office will take your original Confidential Information Form, Custody Agreement and Order, Custody Complaint, and Criminal Record/Abuse History Verification Forms and keep them for the court file. They will timestamp the copies of the Confidential Information Form and Custody Complaint, and any extra copies you brought of the Criminal Record/Abuse History Verification Form, and give the copies back to you. They will keep the original Custody Agreement and Order and both copies of the l Custody Agreement and Order.
FILE YOUR DOCUMENTS. Now you can go to the Prothonotary’s office in the courthouse. Tell the staff that you are there to file a Petition to Modify Custody and give them your papers. The Prothonotary’s Office will take your original Petition to Modify Custody and Criminal Record/Abuse History Verification Form and keep them for the court file. They will timestamp the copies of the Petition to Modify Custody and Criminal Record/Abuse History Verification Form and give the copies back to you. They will keep the original proposed Notice and Order and both copies of the Notice and Order.
FILE YOUR DOCUMENTS. Now you can go to the Prothonotary’s office in the courthouse. Tell the staff that you are there to file a signed agreement to modify a custody order and give them your papers. The Prothonotary’s Office will take all of your documents. The court will then review your Agreement and notify you if there are any defects or problems that prevent the court from accepting it (it usually takes about one-to-two weeks for the court to review a custody agreement). If the Agreement is in proper legal form and acceptable to the court, the judge will sign the Agreement and make it an order of court. Copies with the judge’s signature will then be mailed to you and the party or parties at the addresses you provided. This Self-Help Custody Agreement Package is provided by the Tioga County Bar Association for the benefit of pro se custody litigants in Tioga County, Pennsylvania and may be reproduced without restriction. No warranties of any kind are made in connection with these instructions or the included documents, nor is this package intended as a substitute for individualized legal advice. For further assistance, please contact North Penn Legal Services at (877) 953 – 4250. ADDITIONAL CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE:
FILE YOUR DOCUMENTS. Now you can go to the Prothonotary’s office in the courthouse. Tell the staff that you are there to file a signed agreement to modify a custody order and give them your papers. The Prothonotary’s Office will take all of your documents. The court will review your Agreement and notify you if there are any defects or problems that prevent the court from accepting it. If the Agreement is in proper legal form and acceptable to the court, the judge will sign the Agreement and make it an order of court. Copies with the judge’s signature will then be mailed to you and the Defendant at the addresses you provided. This Self-Help Custody Agreement Package is provided by the Tioga County Bar Association for the benefit of pro se custody litigants in Tioga County, Pennsylvania and may be reproduced without restriction. No warranties of any kind are made in connection with these instructions or the included documents, nor is this package intended as a substitute for individualized legal advice. For further assistance, please contact North Penn Legal Services at (877) 953 – 4250. ADDITIONAL CONTENTS OF THIS PACKAGE:
