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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 interim and/or final orders.

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 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 dat

This notice is used by a person who wishes to dispute an

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 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 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 general federal law proceedings.

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

This form is used by a party when they are required to make a payment into Court