Form FW-001: Request to Waive Court Fees
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Form FW-001 is the Request to Waive Court Fees, a confidential mandatory Judicial Council form. You may use it if you receive public benefits, are a low-income person, or do not have enough income to cover your household’s basic needs and your court fees. The court may order you to answer questions about your finances, and a waiver is not always permanent — you may have to pay later if you cannot prove eligibility, if your finances improve, or if you settle a civil case for $10,000 or more. With JustFill you upload the blank FW-001 PDF, the AI auto-detects every field, and you download it free.
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Court fees standing between you and filing? Form FW-001 asks a California court to waive them, and JustFill turns the official Judicial Council PDF into a fillable form in your browser. The form is marked CONFIDENTIAL and rests on Government Code section 68633 and California Rules of Court rules 3.51, 8.26 and 8.818. You give your own details, your job if you have one, and your lawyer if you have one — including whether that lawyer has agreed to advance your fees, which they must sign to confirm. Then you state the basis for the waiver, and depending on which one you pick you either stop there, answer three financial questions, or complete a full page of income detail.
The official 2-page Form FW-001 PDF (Rev. March 1, 2026, Mandatory Judicial Council Form) is free to download from the California Courts at courts.ca.gov/documents/fw001.pdf, alongside the companion information sheet Form FW-001-INFO. Click "Fill the blank FW-001 now" above to open the official FW-001 PDF directly in JustFill, complete Items 1–6 (and Page 2 financial items if required by your Item 5 selection) in your browser without XFA viewer errors, and download a clean PDF to file confidentially with the court clerk.
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The Superior Court of California county and street address, and the case number and case name where a case already exists.
Your name, street or mailing address, city, state, ZIP and phone; then your job title, employer name and employer address if you are working.
Name, firm or affiliation, address, phone and State Bar number, plus whether the lawyer has agreed to advance all or part of your fees or costs. If yes, the lawyer signs the form. Where the lawyer is not providing legal-aid type services based on low income, you may have to attend a hearing to explain the request.
Which court’s fees or costs you are asking to be waived; the Superior Court option points to the information sheet, form FW-001-INFO.
The branch you select decides how much of page two you complete: one basis needs nothing further, another needs only questions 7, 8 and 9, and the third needs the entire financial page.
A box to tick when your income varies a lot month to month, in which case you use your average over the past twelve months; your gross monthly income listed by source; and the income of other people living with you who depend on you or on whom you depend.
A fictional self-represented litigant in Los Angeles County who receives Medi-Cal and CalFresh benefits files Form FW-001 alongside a family law petition to request a mandatory Superior Court fee waiver under Item 5a. All names and numbers are fictional.
Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles · Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, CA 90012 · Case Name: Marriage of Sample
Identifies the Superior Court branch and the case in which the confidential fee waiver is requested.
Item 1 Name: CARMEN R. SAMPLE · Address: 2410 Sample Sunset Blvd, Apt 5, Los Angeles, CA 90026 · Item 2 Job: Part-Time Retail Associate, Sample Market · Item 3: Self-Represented (no lawyer)
Provides the applicant's contact and current employment details on Page 1.
Item 4: ☑ Superior Court fees and costs · Item 5a Checked: I ask the court to waive my court fees because I receive public benefits — ☑ Medi-Cal and ☑ CalFresh (SNAP)
Checking Item 5a (public benefits) qualifies for a mandatory fee waiver under Government Code § 68632(a) without completing the Page 2 income/expense grid.
Items 7–11 left blank per Item 5a instructions · Dated: 10/22/2026 · Printed Name: Carmen R. Sample · Signed under penalty of perjury
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Official source: FW-001 on Judicial Council of California’s website
Edition checked: FW-001 [Rev. March 1, 2026] (2 pages, Mandatory Form, Judicial Council of California). Verified against the official source on · Verified in our Government Forms Fillability Study.
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