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Before starting an application, see the

An applicant seeking final and/or interlocutory orders must file this form with an Initiating Application (Family Law). A respondent seeking final and/or interlocutory orders must file this form with a Response to Initiating Application (Family Law).

This form is available for legal practitioners, if you are an unrepresented litigant see the Initiating Application kit which includes instructions and additional information to assist you complete and file the form.

This form is used to start a family law application seeking final orders. Interlocutory orders can only be sought in this form if you are seeking final orders as well.

This form is used when costs have been ordered to be paid in accordance with scale, the party who is entitled to the costs being paid must serve an itemised costs account on the liable party to pay the costs. If there is no dispute, the party liable then pays the amount as ordered.

If your documents have been destroyed as a result of a natural disaster use this form to obtaining replacement documents at no cost.

If a party who is served with a Notice to Admit seeks to dispute a fact or document specified in the Notice to Admit, the party must serve this form on the party who served the Notice to Admit within 14 days from the date of service. This form is not filed with the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. 

This notice is used by a person who wishes to dispute an Itemised Costs Account when the amount of legal costs and expenses is in dispute. This notice must be served on the person entitled to costs within 28 days of the service of the Itemised Costs Account.

This form is used to inform the Court and the other parties in your case of the address at which court documents and notices can be served on you. You must file this form if your contact address (address for service) has changed.

This form is used to lodge an Appeal.

This form is used when seeking to appeal from a decision of the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) in a child support first review or from a decision of the Child Support Registrar (CSR) to issue a departure prohibition order.

This for is used by lawyers to advise the Court that they no longer act for their client in a family law proceeding.

This form is used if a party to a current family law proceeding changes their name during the proceedings.

This is a mandatory form that must be filed with any Initiating Application, Response to Initiating Application or Application for Consent Orders seeking parenting orders. This form is not to be filed if the orders sought relate to property or financial matters only.

This form is filed by the Respondent in an Appeal if they do not want to cross-appeal from any part of the order, but contend that the order should be affirmed on grounds other than those relied on by the court appealed from. 

This form is used if you are no longer seeking all or some of the orders previously sought by you. Filing this notice does not prevent any other party from continuing with their case and obtaining orders including for costs.

Before starting an application, see the Central Practice Direction – General Federal Law proceedings, which sets out the procedural requirements and steps in the g

Before starting an application, see the Central Practice Direction – General Federal Law proceedings, which sets out the procedural requirements and steps in the general fe

This form is used if you are entitled to intervene. An affidavit must be filed with this form. If you need permission to intervene you must file an Application in a Proceeding (see Rule 3.04)