Tarrant County agreed divorce without children: forms, filing and the prove-up
An agreed no-children divorce in Tarrant County uses the statewide Set 1 forms with no county attachments — but finishing it depends on the court you are assigned to. Here is the sequence and what to expect at the end, from the county's published rules.
Updated 2026-10-15 · Sources: txcourts.gov Divorce Set 1; Tarrant County family court rules and 231st District Court rules/scheduling guidelines (Oct. 2023); Tarrant District Clerk; Tex. Fam. Code §§ 6.301, 6.702
What makes Tarrant different
Finalizing is scheduled by your assigned court. Tarrant's family court rules leave agreed prove-up scheduling to the court the case is assigned to. If that is the 231st District Court, its rules and hearing-scheduling guidelines (revised October 2023) describe coordinator scheduling for prove-ups that require a record. There is no universal walk-in promise; check the assigned court's current instructions when you reach that stage.
No children means no children-only steps. Tarrant's child-support review and parenting materials do not attach to a no-children Set 1 divorce. Do not add them "to be safe".
No countywide "N/A" rule. We found no Tarrant instruction to write N/A in empty boxes. Leave inapplicable items blank; follow the decree's own "none" instruction for separate property.
Residency: one spouse has lived in Texas for 6 months and in the county for 90 days before filing (Tex. Fam. Code § 6.301).
Waiting period: the court cannot grant the divorce until at least 60 days after the petition is filed (§ 6.702), except in family-violence cases.
The forms: the Texas Supreme Court's Divorce Set 1 (no children, no real property): Original Petition, Waiver of Service, Final Decree. The petitioner files the petition first; the respondent signs the waiver before a notary after it is filed; the decree is signed at the prove-up.
Empty boxes: Set 1's instructions say to complete the spaces unless directed otherwise; the decree says to write "none" for a separate-property category that is empty. The cause number and court are the clerk's. See what to write in empty boxes.
VS-165: the Texas DSHS vital-statistics form is completed separately by the parties (its instructions say "0" children when there are none) and submitted when the court's final-stage procedure calls for it.
Fee: paid to the district clerk; the amount is on the clerk's current fee schedule and is not quoted here. A Statement of Inability to Afford Payment of Court Costs can be filed instead if you qualify.
Four ways a Tarrant packet comes back
Cause number or court filled in by the petitioner.
Waiver signed before filing or without the notary's completion.
"N/A" or placeholder text in signature, notary or court boxes.
Decree presented before the 60-day wait, or without the assigned court's scheduling step.
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FilingFoundry asks each spouse separately, transcribes the answers into the court-original Divorce Set 1 forms, keeps the cause number, court, judge and notary boxes empty, attaches the county orders where required, and checks the packet before download. You still sign, pay the district clerk's fee, file, complete the respondent's notarized waiver after filing, and attend or arrange the prove-up.