On my divorce papers Can i use white out on an answer if i made a mistake??

I agree with my colleague. I'd just suggest printing out a fresh copy of the one page you made a mistake on.

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You can correct a document that you haven't submitted to the court yet if you made a mistake. It would be better just to reprint the page that you need to fix with the corrections then using whiteout. The court scans all the documents they get these days and sometimes a scanned copy will show the markings under the white out. I would just do the page over.

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