How RightForms works

Is RightForms a law firm?

No. RightForms is self-help software, and using it does not create an attorney-client relationship. In California only active licensees of the State Bar may practice law (Business and Professions Code §6125). Under the Terms of Service, no employee or contractor completes, selects, reviews or corrects your documents, and support answers technical questions about the website only. RightForms is not an immigration consultant or accredited representative and does not prepare or file immigration applications.

How does RightForms work, step by step?

1. Choose documents in the catalog, one by one or as the Family Preparedness Package: a fixed set of six documents sold together for less than their separate prices (the travel letter is not part of it).
2. Create a free account to fill them in. Your selection is kept.
3. Answer the questions. People you enter (you, your children, a caregiver) are saved in your account and reused across the documents of the order; answers save as you type.
4. Accept the Terms and the Privacy Policy, then pay on a Stripe checkout page.
5. The software generates the PDFs; you download them from your order page, print them, read them and sign them the way each one, or its instruction sheet, says.

What does RightForms not do?

• It does not choose documents for your family. The package is the same list for everyone.
• It does not review your answers or tell you what the law means for your family. The instructions with each document are general information.
• It does not file anything with a court or government agency.
• It does not promise that a school, hospital, bank, court, consulate or airline will accept a document. That depends on them and on your facts.

Why are the documents in English?

Every PDF is in English, whatever language you use on the site, because the documents are written for California schools, health care providers, banks, notaries and courts, and several reproduce form wording set out by California or federal law. The website, the questions and the signing notes on your order page are in English, Spanish or Russian.

What you type prints as typed, so use Latin letters, as in the Latin line of a passport. Spanish letters such as á and ñ print; Cyrillic is not accepted. Read every document before anyone signs it.

Who signs each document, and which ones need a notary?

Each document, or the instruction sheet that comes with it, says who signs it and how. In short:

The affidavit itself says that no court or notary is involved:

A seal or signature from a court is not required. This form is not required to be notarized.

How the documents fit together is explained in the family preparedness plan guide.

What does a notary public do in California?

A California notary public confirms who is signing; the notary does not check whether the document is true or right for your family. The certificate says so:

A notary public or other officer completing this certificate verifies only the identity of the individual who signed the document to which this certificate is attached, and not the truthfulness, accuracy, or validity of that document.

The fee for an acknowledgment may not exceed $15 per signature (Government Code §8211(a)). California's notary law prohibits the literal translation of "notary public" into Spanish as "notario," and a non-attorney notary advertising in another language must post a notice that they are not an attorney (Government Code §8219.5). In many Spanish-speaking countries a notario is a lawyer; a California notary commission does not make anyone one (California Attorney General).

Are free official forms available?

Yes, for some documents. The official Caregiver's Authorization Affidavit is free on the California Courts Self-Help Guide, and the statutory power of attorney form is free from the Sacramento County Public Law Library. That copy shows the §4401 form that applies until January 1, 2027, when AB 2199 replaces it; RightForms prints the form in force on the day it prepares your document. RightForms adds a guided questionnaire in three languages, answers reused across documents, filled-in PDFs and printed signing instructions.

How does payment work?

You pay once per order on a Stripe checkout page; there is no subscription. The order's price is shown before you pay. Stripe processes the payment, RightForms never receives your full card number, and Stripe emails a receipt.

What is the refund policy?

If you are not satisfied, email hello@rightforms.io within 30 days after you pay and IGGO, LLC refunds the full amount of that order to your original payment method, no reason needed. The refund is sent within 30 days of your request; your bank may take a few more days to show it. A document generated with a mistake caused by the software is corrected and generated again at no charge. See Terms, section 6.

What information does RightForms keep, and does it share it with ICE?

RightForms does not voluntarily give personal information to any government agency, including ICE, CBP or USCIS. Under its Privacy Policy it discloses information to an agency only when the law requires it: (1) by a court order, (2) by a search warrant signed by a judge or magistrate, or (3) by a subpoena issued by a court or a grand jury. An immigration administrative subpoena or warrant signed only by an agency officer is not treated as an order; unless the law or a court forbids it, you are told before any disclosure. Its service providers (Stripe, Cloudflare, Resend, Google) have their own legal obligations, and RightForms cannot promise how they respond.

Kept: your account, your answers, your PDFs, payment status, server logs with IP addresses, and your messages. It is not sold or used for advertising, and the site has no analytics cookies or third-party trackers. Most immigration and passport fields are optional and can be left blank and written by hand. To delete your account, email from your account address: everything except basic payment records (amount, date, Stripe reference), kept as long as tax and accounting rules require, is deleted within 30 days, and backups are overwritten within about six months.

Who operates RightForms, and how do I contact it?

IGGO, LLC, a California limited liability company, 3550 Watt Ave, Suite 408, Sacramento, CA 95821. Email: hello@rightforms.io. IGGO, LLC also writes the guides on this site.

What questions does this page not cover?

This page describes the software, not your legal situation: not existing custody or juvenile court cases, parents who disagree, other states, special education, or a parent's own health care decisions. The California Courts Self-Help Guide and LawHelpCA point to free and low-cost help; immigration questions go to an attorney or a Department of Justice–accredited representative.