Online Printable Legal Forms?

December 5, 2009 8:21 AM

Is there a good reliable website that provides free printable legal forms?

I am a public librarian and we have the reference books with legal forms that our users can photocopy but sometimes they just gotta use the internet and I have yet to find a good reliable site for this. For a while I had a link to a register of deeds in a county in North Carolina that had a few but they are gone now.

posted by zzazazz to law & government (7 answers total)

Nolo press isn't free, but does have downloadable forms. I haven't used them, but I've heard good reviews from people who have.
posted by nalyd at 9:57 AM on December 5, 2009

Many states have free forms online through their court system websites. For example, here are the relevant pages for Oklahoma, Texas, and North Carolina.
posted by Dojie at 10:10 AM on December 5, 2009

Yep, not just states but counties as well.
posted by Madamina at 10:24 AM on December 5, 2009

California has them. Many of them are fillable forms--you can type in on-screen to fill in the forms before printing them out.

You need a pdf form-filler program like 'cutepdf' (there's a freeware version) in order to do this.
posted by eye of newt at 10:30 AM on December 5, 2009

Here's a good collection, both federal and state forms are available. In the "select type" field, tell you patrons to choose "Forms." For the most part, these will be state court approved "pro se" form packets, similar those available here in my state, Iowa (forms listed in left column).

LLRX.com has been around a while and is a good reference source for all things legal library-related, IMHO.
posted by webhund at 3:34 PM on December 5, 2009

Fixed link to California forms.
posted by eye of newt at 4:21 PM on December 5, 2009

I should have been more specific. The most frequently requested legal form is the power of attorney form. Court forms are rarely asked for.
posted by zzazazz at 5:45 AM on December 10, 2009