Updated October 16, 2026. Quick answer: The Indiana Judicial Branch’s Self-Service Legal Center points to forms from the Coalition for Court Access at Indiana Legal Help, including a “Divorce Without Children When Spouses Agree” packet and a “Divorce With Children When Spouses Agree” packet. The State Board of Accounts schedule effective July 1, 2025 lists a total civil filing fee of $157.00, with an additional $20 for a dissolution petition in counties that have an approved alternative dispute resolution plan.
Indiana divorce forms at a glance
| Item | What the documents say |
|---|---|
| Official forms | The Indiana Judicial Branch’s Self-Service Legal Center points to forms from the Coalition for Court Access at Indiana Legal Help, including a “Divorce Without Children When Spouses Agree” packet and a “Divorce With Children When Spouses Agree” packet. |
| Filing fee | The State Board of Accounts schedule effective July 1, 2025 lists a total civil filing fee of $157.00, with an additional $20 for a dissolution petition in counties that have an approved alternative dispute resolution plan. |
| Fee waiver | Not found in the documents read |
| Residency before filing | At least one spouse must have been an Indiana resident (or stationed at a United States military installation in Indiana) for six months, and at least one spouse a resident of the filing county (or stationed at a United States military installation in that county) for three months, immediately before filing; a guardian authorized to file for an incapacitated spouse may instead file in the guardian’s own county of residence after three months there. |
| Waiting period | Except for the summary dissolution and summary disposition procedures in sections 13 and 14 of IC 31-15-2, a final hearing on a dissolution petition may not be held earlier than sixty days after the petition is filed. |
| Settlement agreement | Spouses may agree in writing on maintenance, property, child custody and support, and relocation of the children, and the terms, if the court approves them, are incorporated and merged into the decree and the parties ordered to perform them; otherwise the court may make its own provisions on property, child support, maintenance and custody. |
| Source | Indiana General Assembly; Indiana Judicial Branch; Indiana Legal Help (Coalition for Court Access); Indiana State Board of Accounts |
The official forms
The Indiana Judicial Branch’s Self-Service Legal Center points to forms from the Coalition for Court Access at Indiana Legal Help, including a “Divorce Without Children When Spouses Agree” packet and a “Divorce With Children When Spouses Agree” packet.
The text itself:
- Self-Service Legal Center: Home: “Find forms to use in court from the Coalition for Court Access”
- Divorce (Indiana Legal Help): “Divorce With Children When Spouses Agree”
- Divorce Without Children When Spouses Agree: “Divorce Without Children When Spouses Agree”
The forms are linked in the sources at the foot of this page. A court clerk or a lawyer decides which of them fits your case; this page does not.
The filing fee
The State Board of Accounts schedule effective July 1, 2025 lists a total civil filing fee of $157.00, with an additional $20 for a dissolution petition in counties that have an approved alternative dispute resolution plan.
Fees change, and CMG’s table of divorce filing fees by state shows which states’ statutes it has read. If you cannot afford the fee: Not found in the documents read
The text itself:
- Filing Fees by Case Type Collected by the Clerk (July 1, 2025): “Total Civil Filing Fee $157.00”
- Filing Fees by Case Type Collected by the Clerk (July 1, 2025): “paternity, or dissolution of marriage a fee of $20”
Residency and the waiting period
Residency: At least one spouse must have been an Indiana resident (or stationed at a United States military installation in Indiana) for six months, and at least one spouse a resident of the filing county (or stationed at a United States military installation in that county) for three months, immediately before filing; a guardian authorized to file for an incapacitated spouse may instead file in the guardian’s own county of residence after three months there.
Waiting period: Except for the summary dissolution and summary disposition procedures in sections 13 and 14 of IC 31-15-2, a final hearing on a dissolution petition may not be held earlier than sixty days after the petition is filed.
The text itself:
- Indiana Code 2025, Title 31 Family Law and Juvenile Law: “for six (6) months immediately preceding the filing of the petition”
- Indiana Code 2025, Title 31 Family Law and Juvenile Law: “for three (3) months immediately preceding the filing of the petition”
- Indiana Code 2025, Title 31 Family Law and Juvenile Law: “not earlier than sixty (60) days after the filing of the petition”
Where a settlement agreement fits
Spouses may agree in writing on maintenance, property, child custody and support, and relocation of the children, and the terms, if the court approves them, are incorporated and merged into the decree and the parties ordered to perform them; otherwise the court may make its own provisions on property, child support, maintenance and custody.
The text itself:
- Indiana Code 2025, Title 31 Family Law and Juvenile Law: “the parties may agree in writing to provisions for”
- Indiana Code 2025, Title 31 Family Law and Juvenile Law: “approved by the court, shall be incorporated and merged into the decree”
CMG’s QDRO cost and divorce and your money pages cover what a divorce does to retirement accounts and taxes.
What the documents do not say
- Whether the court system offers these forms free of charge: not found in the documents read.
- The name of the fee-waiver form: not found in the documents read.
- The packet names come from the Coalition for Court Access (Indiana Legal Help), a site the Indiana Judicial Branch links to but does not operate; individual form numbers are not printed on the pages read.
- The fee is the State Board of Accounts civil schedule, not a schedule specific to dissolutions.
- Child custody, child support and property-division rules, and local court rules, were not read.
Common mistakes
- Assuming the answer for one state applies to another, or that a form filled in correctly is the same as a form the court has accepted.
Related: divorce filing fees by state, divorce and your money, and what a QDRO costs.
Sources
- Indiana Code 2025, Title 31 Family Law and Juvenile Law: https://iga.in.gov/ic/2025/Title_31.pdf
- Self-Service Legal Center: Home: https://www.in.gov/courts/selfservice/
- Divorce Without Children When Spouses Agree: https://indianalegalhelp.org/legal-topic/divorce-without-children-and-when-spouses-agree/
- Filing Fees by Case Type Collected by the Clerk (July 1, 2025): https://www.in.gov/sboa/files/2025-Court-Costs-and-Fees-by-Case-Type.pdf
- Divorce (Indiana Legal Help): https://indianalegalhelp.org/legal-topic-category/divorce-2/
Sources: the primary documents linked above, read on October 16, 2026. General information, not tax advice. Your own facts decide the outcome, and a tax professional or the state agency itself is the right place to confirm anything consequential.