One of the great uses of Adobe Acrobat is the creation of forms. Acrobat lets you take any document and create form fields that you can fill out, save, and print. In other words, even if you have a paper form, you don't need a typewriter to fill it out. Just scan it and create form fields (using the form tool in Acrobat) and fill in as needed.
In litigation lawyers sometimes come across forms that need to be filled out. An example from federal court is the Civil Cover Sheet that must be filed along with any civil case. In Louisiana we are fortunate to have the Western District Court, whose website has several useful forms available in PDF format, including a Civil Cover Sheet.
If you don't have the full version of Acrobat then you can't save the form after you've filled it out, but at least you can fill it out (assuming that it is an "interactive" form, as the Western District of Louisiana court describes it). I don't see why a court would go through the trouble to put a PDF form online but not create the form fields so that the could be filled out, but then there are lot of things I don't understand.
Findlaw also has a great compilation of PDF forms for many federal and state courts. Check and see if there are forms for your state. Chances are they have some that you might find useful. If you want to find more forms just type "PDF court forms" into Google and see what's out there.
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