Every form and court document our clients ask for, in one place, with a plain note on what each one is for.
If you are getting ready for a first meeting, start with the three forms in the first section. Filling those out ahead of time is the single biggest thing you can do to keep your legal costs down, because every question you answer on paper is a question nobody has to bill you to ask.
Everything after that is reference. Your court’s local rules, the official child support worksheet, and the mediator and parenting class lists for your county. You do not need to read all of it. Take the pieces that apply to your case and leave the rest.
Take your time. Nobody expects perfect. A blank you cannot fill is a conversation, not a failure.
These are the forms our office asks new clients to complete. Two of the three are fillable PDFs now, so you can type straight into them, save, and print.
Form 1, 1 page, print and write
Intake Sheet
Who you are, who the other party is, and what has already happened. Names, dates of birth, addresses, employers, your children, any prior cases between you, and how you would like us to reach you. It ends with space for the questions you want to ask, which is the part most people find most useful.
You will want on hand. Your marriage certificate for the city and county of marriage, birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children, and the case number of any prior divorce, modification or contempt action.
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Form 2, 5 pages with instructions, fillable
Statement of Property
Everything either of you owns and everything either of you owes. Seventeen asset categories, from the house and the cars down to retirement accounts, life insurance, business interests and anything owed to you by someone else. Then three categories of debt. This version has the instructions built in, so the guidance is on the page while you fill it in.
Two columns matter more than people expect. Present value and whether the item is marital or separate. Marital generally means acquired during the marriage. Separate generally means owned before it, or received by gift or inheritance. If you are not sure which one applies, mark it unsure rather than guessing, because that designation decides who keeps it.
You will want on hand. The deed and mortgage statement, vehicle titles, recent bank and brokerage statements, retirement plan statements, life insurance policies, and any trust or partnership agreement. Household and personal items only need listing individually if they are worth $100 or more.
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Form 3, about 3 pages, fillable
Statement of Income and Expenses
What comes in and what goes out every month. Section 1 is income, including every payroll deduction and any money from rentals, dividends, a side business, Social Security, a pension or a bonus. Section 2 is your monthly expenses, running from rent and utilities through automobiles, insurance, support, charitable giving, food and clothing, and your children’s additional costs.
Watch the pay period. Section 1 asks for figures per pay period, Section 2 asks for monthly averages. If you are paid every two weeks, multiply by 26 and divide by 12. Do not multiply by two, that undercounts you by about a month a year.
You will want on hand. A recent pay stub, last year’s W-2 or tax return, and roughly twelve months of bank and credit card statements so your monthly averages are real numbers rather than guesses.
Download the Statement of Income and Expenses
One of these has a deadline attached
In St. Louis County, local Rule 68.5 gives each side seventy five days from service of summons to hand over a list of financial documents to the other party. The Statement of Property and the gathering list further down this page cover most of what that list asks for, which is why doing this work early tends to save money later. Jefferson County has its own version with its own timing. Both rules are in the local rules section below.
Missouri calculates child support with one worksheet, called Form 14. These are the current official versions from the Missouri courts. If your case involves children, the number this worksheet produces is where the conversation starts.
Form 14, Child Support Amount Calculation Worksheet
2 pages, official Missouri court form
The worksheet Missouri courts use to arrive at a presumed child support amount. Both sides usually complete one. It is arithmetic rather than argument, twelve lines long, and it runs on each parent’s income, the number of children, and a handful of specific costs like health insurance and child care.
Directions, Comments for Use and Examples for Form 14
24 pages, applies to judgments entered after January 1, 2026
The official instructions for the worksheet, line by line, with worked examples. It is long, but it is the answer key. If a line does not make sense, the explanation for it is in here.
Child Support Guideline Schedule
18 pages, schedule dated January 1, 2026
The table the worksheet sends you to. Find your combined adjusted gross income down the left column, read across to the number of children, and that is the basic support figure the rest of the calculation builds on. The schedule runs from the lowest income bracket up to a combined monthly income of $36,950. This version replaced the older one, so a copy from a previous year will give you the wrong number.
Would rather not do the math by hand
Our
Missouri child support calculator runs this same worksheet for you, using the current schedule, and shows you every line as it goes. It gives you an estimate to work from rather than an order, and the court has the final say.
Missouri statutes set the law. Each circuit court then publishes its own local rules for how a family case actually moves, and those rules differ from county to county. If you want to know what is expected of you and when, this is where it is written down.
St. Louis County Family Court Rules 68.3, 68.5 and 68.14
11 pages, 21st Circuit, Clayton
Three rules that shape the first few months of a St. Louis County case. Rule 68.3 is the automatic order that applies on its own, covering things like not cancelling insurance, not running up debt, and not moving the children out of state. Rule 68.5 is the mandatory exchange of documents, and it gives each party seventy five days from service of summons to deliver the listed documents to the other side. Rule 68.14 covers mediation, including the Form 15 the parties file ninety days in to report where mediation stands.
Jefferson County Rule 68, Domestic and Family Law Proceedings
12 pages, 23rd Circuit, Hillsboro, effective May 1, 2025
Jefferson County’s full local rule for divorce, legal separation, paternity, third party custody, grandparent visitation, modifications and contempt. It sets out what has to be filed, when the financial statements are due and when they have to be updated, how discovery runs, the custody information program, mediation in contested custody cases, and the automatic temporary orders. If your case is in Hillsboro, this is the rulebook.
Not seeing your county
We handle cases in St. Louis County, St. Louis City, St. Charles County and Jefferson County. If your case sits in a court that is not posted here, call us and we will send you the local rules that apply to it. You can also look up any Missouri circuit clerk in our
directory of all 115 circuit courts.
In our counties, a contested custody case generally goes to mediation at some point, and a case involving children generally requires a parenting class before a judgment is entered. Courts publish their own approved lists for both. These are the current ones.
Court Approved Mediator List, St. Louis County
23 pages, printed July 27, 2026
Every mediator the Family Court of St. Louis County has approved for family matters, covering property, finances, custody and parenting issues. Each entry lists the mediator’s background, training hours and hourly fee. Approval means the mediator met the court’s requirements, nothing more, and the court states on the list itself that it takes no position as to the relative skills of any individual listed.
Family Law Mediator List, St. Charles County
1 page, dated August 6, 2026
Forty three mediators and counselors serving St. Charles County, with credentials, addresses, phone numbers and hourly rates. It fits on one page, so it is the quickest of these lists to scan.
Approved Parent Education Programs, St. Charles County
1 page, four approved providers
The four parenting programs St. Charles County accepts, with a contact name, website, address and phone number for each. The list states that all parties in a dissolution with children, or in a paternity case, need to complete one of these approved classes before judgment is entered. Signing up early keeps it from becoming the one thing holding up your case at the end.
Pull these together first and the three intake forms take an evening instead of a fortnight. You will need most of them eventually anyway, and the same paperwork covers the mandatory exchange your court requires later on.
Identity and family
Marriage certificate, birth certificates or Social Security cards for the children, and the date you separated if you have separated.
Income
Your most recent pay stub, last year’s W-2 or 1099, and your last two years of tax returns. If you are self employed, your profit and loss statement too.
Property
Deed and mortgage statement, vehicle titles and loan balances, and recent statements for every bank, brokerage and retirement account.
Debt
Current balances and monthly payments for credit cards, store cards, personal loans and student loans, whether they are in your name or joint.
Insurance and benefits
Health insurance card and the premium cost split between the individual and family rate, plus any life or disability policies.
Child care and children’s costs
What you pay each month for child care, plus any regular costs for school, activities or medical care that are not covered by insurance. Form 14 asks for these specifically.
Anything already filed
Case numbers and copies of any prior divorce decree, custody order, support order or order of protection involving either of you.
Do I have to fill these out before my first meeting?
No. Come in either way. But the further you get through the three intake forms, the more of the meeting is spent on your actual questions rather than on collecting your address and your employer.
What if I do not know an answer?
Leave it blank and flag it. Spouses routinely do not know each other’s Social Security number, retirement balance or employer address, and that is normal rather than a problem. Some of those blanks get filled through the formal exchange of information later in the case.
Can I type into them or do I have to print them?
The Statement of Property and the Statement of Income and Expenses are fillable PDFs, so you can type your answers straight in, save the file, and print it. The Intake Sheet is a print and write form. If you would rather handwrite all three, that is fine too, and if you would rather type into the Intake Sheet you can open it in a PDF annotation tool and add text boxes.
Which county’s rules apply to my case?
The local rules of the circuit court where your case is filed. That is usually the county you live in, though not always, and the answer changes what gets filed and when. If you are not sure which court your case belongs in, ask us and we will tell you. Our circuit court directory has contact information for every county in Missouri.
Do I have to take a parenting class?
In most Missouri cases involving children, yes. In St. Charles County the requirement is written into the approved program list above, and the class has to be completed before judgment is entered. Other counties keep their own approved lists, so tell us where your case is filed and we will point you at the right one. The class is educational rather than an evaluation of you as a parent.
Do I have to use a mediator from the court’s list?
These are the court’s lists, not ours, and they are a starting point rather than a shortlist we recommend. Being on one means the mediator met the court’s training and credential requirements. It is not a ranking, and the Family Court of St. Louis County says as much on its own list. Which mediator a case uses depends on the court and on what the two sides agree to, so if your case heads toward mediation we will talk it through with you.
Are these the same as the official forms filed with the court?
Some are, some are not. Form 14, the local court rules and the mediator and parenting lists are official court documents, published by the courts themselves. The Intake Sheet, Statement of Property and Statement of Income and Expenses collect the information a Missouri divorce needs, and the versions actually filed are captioned for the specific circuit court your case is in. That caption differs between St. Louis County, St. Louis City, St. Charles County and Jefferson County. We handle that part.
Is it safe to email these back?
They contain Social Security numbers and account information, so treat them the way you would treat a tax return. Bring the paper copies to your appointment, or ask us for a secure way to send them rather than attaching them to an ordinary email.
Not sure which of these apply to you?
Bring what you have and we will sort the rest. Bardol Law Firm handles family law and nothing else, in St. Louis County, St. Louis City, St. Charles County and Jefferson County. We generally return calls within one business day.
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You may also want our overview of divorce in Missouri, the child support calculator, or the family law glossary if a term on one of these forms is unfamiliar.
The court rules, mediator lists and parenting program lists on this page are published by the courts and are current as of the dates shown next to each one. Courts revise them without notice. Check with the court or with us before relying on an older copy.
These Missouri divorce forms are provided for information and convenience. They are not legal advice, and downloading them does not create an attorney client relationship. The choice of a lawyer is an important decision and should not be based solely upon advertisements.
