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Texas Divorce Forms: Every Official Set Explained (Set 1, A, B, C, D)

Reviewed by the Amicably document team · Updated August 5, 2026

Texas uncontested divorce forms are grouped into five sets, labeled Set 1, Set A, Set B, Set C, and Set D. Which one applies depends on two questions: do you and your spouse have minor children, and is there already a conservatorship or support order in place. Only one of the five, Set 1, was ever promulgated by the Texas Supreme Court; the rest are published by the Texas Access to Justice Commission through TexasLawHelp.org.

This guide sorts out which set fits your situation, what each toolkit actually contains, and where to get the current, fillable version of every form.

The five sets at a glance

TexasLawHelp.org, the Texas Access to Justice Commission's self-help site, organizes uncontested divorce forms into five named sets. Which one you need turns on two questions: whether you and your spouse have minor children together, and, if you do, whether a conservatorship or support order already covers those children.

Only one of the five, Set 1, carries an actual Texas Supreme Court order behind it. The other four are TexasLawHelp's own toolkits, built and maintained by the Texas Access to Justice Commission rather than promulgated by the Court.

Set 1: the only Supreme Court set

"Divorce Set One" is the one Texas uncontested divorce form set the Supreme Court actually approved by order.

Its scope is narrow on purpose: the toolkit's own instructions say not to use it if either spouse owns or is buying real property. Set 1 covers only couples with no minor children and no real estate to divide, which is why TexasLawHelp built separate, broader toolkits for everyone else.

Set A and Set D: no minor children

For couples with no minor children who do not fit Set 1's narrow no-property rule, TexasLawHelp's current toolkit uses Set A for opposite-sex marriages and Set D for the same-sex-marriage version of the same forms. Both are Texas Access to Justice Commission publications, not Supreme Court orders.

Set A and Set D petitions and decrees carry their own form numbers (FM-DivA-### and FM-DivD-### respectively), parallel to the with-children Set B numbering described below. Confirm the exact current form number and revision date on the toolkit page before filing, since TexasLawHelp updates these periodically.

Set B and Set C: minor children

Set B is for couples with minor children where no conservatorship or support order already exists for those children. Set C is for couples with minor children where a conservatorship or support order is already in place and the divorce needs to work around it.

Texas calls this conservatorship and possession and access, not custody and visitation, and the Set B and Set C decrees use that vocabulary throughout.

Set B and Set C were not promulgated by the Texas Supreme Court, unlike Set 1; they are Texas Access to Justice Commission and TexasLawHelp publications, and their form footers read "© TexasLawHelp.org" rather than citing a Misc. Docket order.

The core Set B documents are the Original Petition for Divorce (FM-DivB-100), the respondent's Waiver of Service Only (FM-DivB-103) or Respondent's Original Answer (FM-DivB-102), the Final Decree of Divorce (FM-DivB-201), and a prove-up affidavit.

The waiver of service must be signed after the petition is filed and sworn before a notary who is not an attorney in the case; a waiver signed early, or one carrying a digitized signature, has to be redone.

Getting the current, fillable PDFs

The individual, current-revision TexasLawHelp form PDFs are true fill-in PDFs with real form fields, built to be typed into on screen. Some of the older "assembled packet" PDFs that circulate on county clerk sites are flattened for printing and cannot be typed into at all, so downloading the right version matters as much as downloading the right set.

1. Decide whether you have minor children together. If not, move to Set 1 or Set A/D. If so, move to Set B or Set C.
2. If you have no minor children, confirm whether either spouse owns or is buying real property. No property and it fits the narrow rule: Set 1. Otherwise: Set A (opposite-sex) or Set D (same-sex).
3. If you have minor children, check whether a conservatorship or support order already exists for them. None yet: Set B. Already in place: Set C.
4. Go to the matching toolkit page on TexasLawHelp.org and download the current individual form PDFs, not an older assembled packet, so the fields are still fillable.
5. Check the revision date printed on each form footer against the toolkit page before you file, since courts can reject an outdated version.

How the forms move through an agreed case

The forms are not a single stack signed all at once. In an agreed case they arrive in a sequence, and getting the order wrong is one of the most common reasons a court sends a packet back.

1. Day 0The petitioner files the Original Petition for Divorce for the matching set.
2. After filingThe respondent signs the Waiver of Service Only in front of a notary, or files a Respondent's Original Answer instead.
3. Day 60 or laterOnce the waiting period has run, the petitioner completes the prove-up affidavit for the set in use.
4. Prove-upThe judge signs the Final Decree of Divorce for that set.
5. At filing of the decreeForm VS-165 goes to the clerk along with the signed decree so the divorce is reported to Vital Statistics.

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