• Are you having trouble serving your divorce application?

    If you are having trouble serving your divorce application on your spouse, this fact sheet may help you. It explains the two options you have when you cannot serve your divorce application on your spouse – seeking an order to serve the other party in a way other than personal service or seeking to ‘dispense with service’. A Court order is required for both options.

  • Natural disasters

    If you are concerned about the status of your family law proceedings while you or your former partner are managing immediate issues following a natural disaster you can consult the Court to enquire about the assistance we can offer you.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Consumer law: Small claims hearings

    This page provides information about small claims hearings under the National Consumer Credit Protection Act 2009.
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