• Lighthouse: Update to the profession November 2023

    Lighthouse and the associated bespoke case management for high risk matters focuses on the safety of children and their families by identifying and addressing issues of family violence and other risks.

  • Lighthouse information sheet for practitioners

    Information for practitioners about the Lighthouse risk screening and case management

  • Child Support Applications

    This brochure explains what type of child support applications and appeals can be filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Court).

  • Indigenous: Overview

    The job of the Court is to help families work out problems they may have when families have separated. This is not a criminal court. It’s a civil court, set up to help families and to keep children safe. This court is sometimes called the Family Court.

  • Separate smarter: We cannot agree

    This page explains what your options are if you have not been able to agree on arrangements for your children or property and finances after separation.

  • PPP Financial Summary (form)

    This form is to be used in a Priority Property Pool Case (PPP) once the Court makes a declaration or notation that the case is designated as a PPP case.

  • Admiralty: Overview

    This page provides an overview of the Court’s jurisdiction under the Admiralty Act 1988.

  • FCFCOA Practice Direction – Revocation of Practice Directions and Information Notices

    The Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia has developed new rules of court for all proceedings in the Court with effect from 1 September 2021. Various new Practice Directions and Information Notices have been issued to accompany the new rules. This Practice Direction formally revokes a number of outdated or superseded Practice Directions and Information Notices issued by the Family Court of Australia or Federal Circuit Court of Australia prior to the commencement of the operation of the Court on 1 September 2021.

  • Practice and procedure update: Word document of proposed consent orders now required with Application for Consent Orders

    From 31 October 2025 additional documents will be required when filing an Application for Consent Orders on the Commonwealth Courts Portal

  • Family law senior judicial registrars, judicial registrars and deputy registrars: the roles explained

    Senior judicial registrars, judicial registrars and deputy registrars each undertake key roles in the operation of the family law jurisdiction of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Court). Although each of these roles existed in the former Family Court and Federal Circuit Court, they now play an enhanced role in the case management pathway of the new court.
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