Marriage Petition Response
A marriage petition response is used by one spouse who has been served with divorce papers by the other spouse.
Ending the Relationship
Either spouse in a marriage or partner in a registered domestic partnership can ask the court to end their legal relationship. If you have been served with a petition and summons for dissolution (divorce) or legal separation, your spouse or domestic partner is asking the court to end your relationship. In California, as long as one person wants to end the marriage or domestic partnership, the court can end it, even if the other spouse or domestic partner does not agree or want to get divorced or legally separated.
Ending the Marital Status
A married couple or registered domestic partners can end their marital status in California six months after the first papers are filed at the courthouse and copies of these papers are served on you, the respondent.
Marriage Petition Response Used in California Courts
File Download (PDF File): fl120 – marriage response
California Counties for Filing
Marriage Petition Response form to be used in the following California counties:
Los Angeles County CA
Orange County CA
San Diego County CA
Riverside County CA
San Bernardino County CA
Santa Clara County CA
Alameda County CA
Sacramento County CA
Contra Costa County CA
Fresno County CA
Ventura County CA
San Francisco County CA
Kern County CA
San Mateo County CA
San Joaquin County CA
Stanislaus County CA
Sonoma County CA
Tulare County CA
Solano County CA
Monterey County CA
Santa Barbara County CA
Placer County CA
San Luis Obispo County CA
Santa Cruz County CA
Merced County CA
Marin County CA
Butte County CA
Yolo County CA
El Dorado County CA
Shasta County CA
Imperial County CA
Kings County CA
Madera County CA
Napa County CA
Humboldt County CA
Nevada County CA
Sutter County CA
Mendocino County CA
Yuba County CA
Lake County CA
Tehama County CA
Tuolumne County CA
San Benito County CA
Calaveras County CA
Siskiyou County CA
Amador County CA
Lassen County CA
Del Norte County CA
Glenn County CA
Plumas County CA
Colusa County CA
Mariposa County CA
Inyo County CA
Trinity County CA
Mono County CA
Modoc County CA
Sierra County CA
Alpine County CA
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