Court Documents

each divorce case is initiated, driven, and finalized by various documents that will need to be prepared and filed with the court anatomy of a court document each court document consists of three basic sections the heading, the body, and the closing the heading the first part of the document is the pleader heading it includes the following information your name and contact information identifying the type of court (e g district court), the judicial district (e g third), and identifying the county (e g salt lake county) the name of the case for divorce cases, the name of the case must be written as follows "in the matter of the marriage of \[party a and party b] the specific title of the document (e g "petition for divorce") the assigned case number, judge and commissioner the body the content in the main body of the document will vary depending on the specific document you are creating descriptions and examples of the specific documents you need for your divorce are given in subsequent sections of this guide the closing at the end of each document, you will need to include a declaration under criminal penalty under the law of utah that everything stated in the document is true you will then date and sign the document most documents will also need to include a "certificate of service" identifying that you have or will be serving the document on the other party example court document click the link below to download an example of a utah court document