Marriage Licenses and Divorce Decrees are available from the Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court. Family Court and Probate records are available at various Justice Court and Maricopa County Court locations.
All records requests must be submitted in writing. Fill out our Records Request Form (see below) and submit it to the court. Your request can be submitted at our front counter, mailed to the Maricopa Municipal Court, 39600 W Civic Center Plaza, Maricopa, AZ 85138 or emailed.
Contact the Clerk of the Superior Court for the county in which the divorce was filed in. Divorce decrees filed before 1950 may be held by the Arizona State Archives, depending on the county. Contact the Clerk of the Superior Court for the county they were filed in.
Marriage Licenses and Divorce Decrees are available from the Maricopa County Clerk of the Superior Court. Family Court and Probate records are available at various Justice Court and Maricopa County Court locations. Adoption records are available at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.
Your final divorce paper is called a Decree of Dissolution. You will also need other documents listed below. The relief that you asked for in your Petition must be the same as in the Decree.
If you do not initially agree on all of the issues but end up settling your divorce, an uncontested divorce in Arizona can take anywhere between 60-days to 120-days in Maricopa County. It all depends upon how willing both spouses are to reach a reasonable settlement.
The Arizona Judicial Branch offers the ability to eFile subsequent and case initiating family court documents for Maricopa County. You can learn more about eFiling in Family Law Cases here. Filing hours are Monday through Friday from am- pm.
Legal separation is filed in the same manner as a Petition for divorce ( dissolution of marriage ). You, the petitioner , will need to complete the appropriate forms and file them with your local Superior Courthouse. The filing fees can be found at the Administrative Office of the Courts.
The affidavit of financial information or “AFI” is a document each litigant must complete under oath and file in any Arizona family court case involving requests for child support, spousal maintenance, and/or attorney's fees. A copy of the form used in Maricopa County Superior Court can be found here.