Utah Divorce Online — How MyPaperwork Replaced OCAP

What Happened to OCAP

If you've been searching for Utah's Online Court Assistance Program, you won't find it. The Utah State Courts retired OCAP in 2025 and replaced it with MyPaperwork, a redesigned interview-based system that works on both desktop and mobile browsers. Same goal — guiding self-represented filers through divorce paperwork — but a significantly different interface.

The transition caught a lot of people off guard. Forum posts, older attorney blog articles, and even some court self-help pages still reference OCAP. If you're following instructions that mention OCAP, translate them to MyPaperwork and verify the steps against the current system.

How MyPaperwork Works

MyPaperwork walks you through a structured questionnaire about your marriage, children, property, debts, and desired outcomes. Based on your answers, it generates the documents you need to file: a Verified Petition, Summons, Domestic Relations Cover Sheet, and (if applicable) parenting plan forms and financial declarations.

The system charges a $60 document preparation fee under Utah Code § 78A-2-501. This is separate from the $350 court filing fee — you pay $60 for MyPaperwork to compile your forms, then $350 to the District Court clerk to actually file them.

Once the system finishes processing (which can take anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour), you download the completed document package as a PDF. Then file the documents with the District Court clerk using the filing method currently accepted for your county.

The Seven-Day Download Trap

This is the single most frustrating feature of MyPaperwork for first-time users: your completed document package expires seven days after generation. If you don't download and save the files within that window, they're deleted from the system. No extensions, no recovery.

That means if you spend two hours answering the questionnaire on a Monday, generate your forms, and then wait until the following Wednesday to download them — they're gone. You'll need to start the entire questionnaire from scratch, which means re-entering every piece of information about your marriage, finances, and children.

The fix is simple: download your documents immediately after generation, save them to at least two locations (your computer and a cloud drive), and don't assume you can come back to the system later.

Known Limitations

MyPaperwork handles the standard Utah divorce case well, but it has structural limits you should know about:

• Six-child cap: The system can only process cases with up to six minor children. If you have more, you'll need to contact the court clerk for manual form assistance.
• Gender assumptions: The system assumes unmarried parents are of opposite genders. Same-sex couples may encounter form-generation issues that require manual corrections before filing.
• No legal advice: MyPaperwork generates forms from your inputs. It won't flag unfair property splits, missed deadlines, or strategic mistakes. The system is a document assembler, not an advisor.

Preparing Before You Start the Questionnaire

The questionnaire asks detailed questions about property, debts, income, and (if you have children) parenting arrangements. Going in unprepared leads to one of two outcomes: you either rush through and make errors that the clerk rejects, or you abandon the session partway and lose your progress.

Before opening MyPaperwork, gather:

• Both spouses' full legal names, dates of birth, and Social Security numbers
• Your marriage date and county of marriage
• Current addresses and how long each spouse has lived at their current county address
• A complete list of marital assets (real estate, vehicles, bank accounts, retirement accounts)
• A complete list of marital debts (mortgages, car loans, credit cards, student loans)
• If you have children: their names, dates of birth, current school information, and your proposed parenting schedule

If you want a structured way to organize all of this before touching MyPaperwork, the Utah Divorce Filing Process Guide includes preparation worksheets that map directly to the system's questionnaire sections. The goal is to make your decisions offline — where you can think through property division and parenting time without a system timer running — and then enter finalized answers into MyPaperwork in one clean session.

Filing the Generated Documents

After downloading your documents from MyPaperwork, you file them with the District Court clerk in the county where you or your spouse meets the 90-day residency requirement, using the filing method currently accepted for that county.

Filing assigns your case number and binds the petitioner to the automatic domestic relations injunction under URCP Rule 109. The respondent becomes bound when served; the injunction restricts changes to the financial and parental status quo.

From there, the process moves to service of process (getting the papers to your spouse through a sheriff, process server, or voluntary acceptance), followed by the response period, any mandatory disclosures, and eventually the final decree — which can't be entered until at least 30 days after filing.

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