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Notice:

The Court's Online Ability to Pay Portal will be unavailable beginning June 4 at 5:00 PM, to transition to a new case management system. During this period, we will be unable to accept online Ability to Pay petitions, but we will continue to accept paper petitions link to paper petition. Thank you for your patience during this transition

Notice:

The Court Public Portal to search for Court Records & Hearings has been moved to a new website as of Monday 4/27. The previous site will not work, access the new portal here: https://kiosk-cacontracosta.tylertech.cloud/Portal/

Notice:

The Court’s Beta AI Chatbot, Coco, is now available to help answer common questions and guide you to court resources. Try it here: Coco (Beta)

Divorce / Legal Separation / Annulment

Jurisdiction

A dissolution action may be started in Contra Costa County if one or both spouses/partners have resided in this county for at least the last 3 months and in the state of California for at least 6 months. Cases involving legal separation or nullity have less strict residency requirements. For legal separation or nullity cases, one or both spouses/partners need only be a resident of this county at the time this case is started. There is no duration of residency requirement for these types of marital actions.
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Self-Help

If you need more help or information, please refer to the Virtual Self-Help Law Center

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