• Chapter 12 Costs Notice

    Use this brochure for information about legal costs to which Chapter 12 of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021 (Family Law Rules 2021) applies.

  • Review of Migration Decisions - Simplified English version

    Simplified English version of the Review of Migration decisions brochure

  • Parenting orders – obligations, consequences and who can help

    This information is for parents and other people, such as grandparents, who are subject to a parenting order. It includes information, pursuant to section 65DA(2) of the Family Law Act 1975, about the legal obligations created by a parenting order and the consequences that may follow if it is contravened (breached).

  • Before you file – pre-action procedure for financial or property cases (prescribed brochure)

    This brochure provides information for people considering applying to the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Court) for financial or property orders. In particular, it provides information about pre-action procedures required before starting a case.

  • Family Law Practice Direction: Appeals

    This Practice Direction sets out the procedure for all family law appeals and applications for leave to appeal from a judgment of a judge of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia exercising the original jurisdiction of the Court; a single judge of a Supreme Court of a State or Territory exercising the original jurisdiction of the Court; or a family law Magistrate of Western Australia.

  • Notice of objection - subpoena

    This form is used by the named person subpoenaed to produce documents, to object to producing the documents. Or a person receiving a copy of a subpoena to produce documents, to object to the documents subpoenaed being inspected or copied.

  • Children: We cannot agree

    This page provides a summary of the options available when you cannot agree on arrangements for a child (or children) and parenting after separation.

  • Marriage, families and separation (prescribed brochure)

    This brochure provides information for people considering, or affected by separation or divorce. It includes information about: the social and legal effects of separation; the services provided to families by the Court and by government, community and other agencies, and some of the steps involved in court proceedings.

  • Speech for the Launch of the Lighthouse Expansion

    Speech given by The Hon Chief Justice William Alstergren AO at the launch of the Lighthouse Expansion on 5 December 2022 in Sydney.

  • Guide for Independent Children’s Lawyers in the Evatt List

    This Guide summarises the involvement and role of an Independent Children’s Lawyer (ICL) in the Evatt List, which is a specialist list established in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (FCFCOA) to resolve high risk matters. This Guide should be read in conjunction with the Guide for Practitioners.
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