The Divorce Disclosure Forms: FL-140, FL-141, FL-142 and FL-150, the 60-Day Rule and the Final Disclosure

The Riverside court’s FAQ calls FL-150, FL-142 and FL-160 “Declarations of Disclosure” and says they are required by law within 60 days of filing¹¹.

FL-140 lists what is attached to it: the schedule of assets and debts (FL-142) or the property declaration (FL-160); a statement of material facts on the valuation of community assets and a statement on community obligations (neither is a court form); all tax returns filed in the two years before the disclosure is served; a written disclosure of any investment, business or income-producing opportunity presented since the date of separation that arises from the marriage period; and a completed FL-150².

The Judicial Council’s steps add that the income form needs proof of income for the past two months attached³.

Family Code section 2104(f) sets the clock. The petitioner serves the preliminary declaration “either concurrently with the petition for dissolution or legal separation, or within 60 days of filing the petition,” and the respondent does the same with the response, and “the time periods specified in this subdivision may be extended by written agreement of the parties or by court order”⁴.

The notes on FL-140 add that the preliminary declaration “may not be waived by an agreement between the parties”². Parties can waive the final declaration, covered below, but not this first one.

The Judicial Council’s steps have an adult other than the spouse mail the copy; if the spouse has not yet been served with the petition, the disclosures go with the petition and summons by personal service³.

Proof of service on FL-141

FL-141 records whether the preliminary or final declaration was served, whose it was, how and on what date, and has boxes for the waiver routes under Family Code sections 2105(d), 2107 and 2110⁶. The Judicial Council’s steps for filing it: complete the form, make two copies, file the original with the two copies at the courthouse where the case was filed, and take back the stamped copies, one of which goes to the spouse; filing by mail, in person or electronically is possible where the court offers it⁷.

The income and expense declaration served must be “current,” which FL-141 defines as completed within the past three months provided no facts have changed (California Rules of Court, rule 5.260)⁶.

Family Code section 2105(a) requires each party to serve a final declaration of disclosure and a current income and expense declaration “before or at the time the parties enter into an agreement for the resolution of property or support issues other than pendente lite support, or, if the case goes to trial, no later than 45 days before the first assigned trial date,” unless the court orders otherwise for good cause or the parties mutually waive it⁵.

The waiver, form FL-144

Both spouses can sign FL-144, Stipulation and Waiver of Final Declaration of Disclosure (revised January 1, 2007)⁸. Each states under penalty of perjury that they complied with the preliminary-disclosure requirements, exchanged preliminary declarations and current income and expense declarations, and entered the waiver “knowingly, intelligently, and voluntarily,” and that they understand the waiver does not limit their disclosure duties and that “if they do not comply with these obligations, the court will set aside the judgment”⁸. The Judicial Council says final disclosure can be skipped only if both sign and file FL-144¹.

Sources disagree The Judicial Council’s page on serving disclosures says FL-144 “may be used instead of FL-141” in the default-with-agreement path⁷. The text of FL-141 treats a waiver as a separate filing alongside it⁶, and Riverside Local Rule 5150 asks for the final FL-141 “unless the other party has waived disclosure in writing (FL-144)”¹⁰. The Riverside rule is the court’s own wording for its filings; the clerk’s office can say which forms a specific packet needs.

Disclosure is tied to two Riverside steps. First, a party who asks for a Mandatory Settlement Conference and trial on form RI-FL008 must already have served the preliminary declaration and filed FL-141, or no conference is scheduled¹⁰. Second, at least ten days before the conference both parties file the final FL-141 (or the FL-144 waiver)¹⁰. The details are in the Mandatory Settlement Conference in Riverside family law. The trial rules form RI-FL035 (revised January 1, 2026) repeats the FL-141 requirement among the documents due ten days before trial¹⁴.

The Judicial Council puts the same point in general terms: “You can’t go to trial until you complete required financial disclosures”¹².

The Judicial Council warns that “hiding information or leaving things out can lead to the judge taking some of your property” and ordering the person to pay the other side’s attorney’s fees¹. Family Code section 2107, as read on a statute mirror, lets the other party request the declaration and then move to compel it or to bar evidence on the undisclosed issues; it says the court “must impose money sanctions” for a failure to comply, and that a judgment entered where the parties have not complied “must” be set aside⁹. Where a party waived receipt of the declaration, the set-aside is at that party’s request unless fraud or perjury is alleged⁹.