Case Information Statement (CIS)
Gather your financial facts for your New Jersey family case. Have your pay stub and accounts handy. One field at a time, calmly — and at the end we place them onto the form for you.
A Your details
C Income
D Monthly expenses
E Assets & debts
Clear Parting Docs is not a law firm and does not give legal advice. If your case needs a lawyer, we tell you and connect you with a New Jersey attorney.
What the New Jersey Case Information Statement actually is
The Case Information Statement — everyone calls it the CIS — is New Jersey's sworn financial disclosure in Family Part matters, required by R. 5:5-2. It is the document that tells a judge what you earn, what you spend, what you own and what you owe. It is signed under oath, which is the single most important thing to understand about it: a CIS is a certification, and the numbers in it are ones you are swearing to.
Five parts, and what each one is for
- Part A — case and party information. Who the parties are, the county, the docket, the children, the basic frame of the case.
- Part B — insurance. What coverage exists and who carries it, including health coverage for any children.
- Part C — income. Yours and, where known, your spouse's — with the tax and pay records that back it up.
- Part D — monthly expenses. The household budget, broken into shelter, transportation and personal categories.
- Part E — assets and liabilities. Everything owned and everything owed, with values and dates.
Do you need one in an uncontested divorce?
Not always. R. 5:5-2 ties the requirement to what is actually in dispute: the CIS is the vehicle for disclosure when support or the division of property is contested. Couples who have genuinely settled everything and are filing an agreed packet often are not asked for one. But county practice varies, a judge can require it, and if support is being decided the disclosure is the whole basis for the decision. If you are unsure whether your case needs a CIS, that is a question for the county Family Division or a New Jersey attorney — not one to guess at.
Why gathering it is clerical and deciding is not
Collecting your own financial facts and putting them in the right boxes is paperwork, and software is good at paperwork. Deciding how to characterise an asset, what to claim, or how to present a number that could be read two ways is legal judgment, and the moment a question turns into one of those this product stops and points you at a lawyer. That line is deliberate, and it is the same line everywhere in Clear Parting Docs.
What this tool gives you today
You enter your figures once, they are validated, and you see them placed onto the Case Information Statement's own structure so you can read the form back as a whole rather than as a list of answers. Writing those values onto the official stamped Judiciary PDF is gated behind having the current official fillable template and a field map verified against it — the same discipline the child-support figures are held to. We would rather hand you a correct draft to check than a court-branded document we have not proven.
Common questions
What is a Case Information Statement in a New Jersey divorce?
It is the sworn financial disclosure form required in New Jersey Family Part matters under R. 5:5-2. It has five parts covering case information, insurance, income, monthly expenses, and assets and liabilities, and it is signed under oath.
Is a CIS required in an uncontested New Jersey divorce?
Not in every case. R. 5:5-2 ties the requirement to matters where support or the division of property is at issue, so a fully settled uncontested packet often does not need one. County practice varies and a judge can require it, so check with the county Family Division or a New Jersey attorney.
What happens if the numbers on a CIS are wrong?
A Case Information Statement is a certification signed under oath. Filing one you know to be inaccurate carries real consequences, and an amended statement is the way to correct a figure you later find is wrong.
Does Clear Parting Docs file the CIS for me?
No. It organizes your own financial facts onto the form's structure so you can review them. You file with the court yourself, and the official stamped Judiciary PDF is not generated until the current official template and its field map have been verified.
Where this comes from
- New Jersey Rules of Court, R. 5:5-2 — Case Information Statement (njcourts.gov)
- New Jersey Judiciary — Family Division self-help
Related
- The 12 documents in a New Jersey uncontested divorce
- The real cost math of a New Jersey divorce
- See a complete filled sample packet
Clear Parting Docs is not a law firm and none of this is legal advice about your case. It is general information about New Jersey practice, with its sources named above so you can check it. Whether any of it applies to your marriage is a question for a New Jersey attorney.