• Application in a proceeding

    This form is used if a party to current proceedings wishes to seek further interlocutory or procedural orders. An Affidavit must be filed at the same time stating the facts relied on in support of the orders sought in the Application in a Proceeding.

  • 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.

  • Initiating Application Kit (do it yourself kit)

    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.

  • Bankruptcy Information Sheet 5: Substituted Service Applications

    This information sheet explains how to apply for a substituted service order and provides a brief guide on the affidavit evidence that should accompany such an application.

  • Lighthouse information sheet for non-parent parties – risk screening

    A non-parent party to the proceedings may include but is not limited to grandparents, aunts/uncles, elder siblings or kinship carers of the child/ren.

  • Family Law Practice Direction: Nullity and validity of marriage proceedings

    This Practice Direction applies to all family law applications and proceedings filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia for an order that a marriage is a nullity; and a declaration as to the validity of a marriage, divorce or annulment of a marriage.

  • Interlocutory application

    This form is used if a party to current proceedings wishes to seek further interlocutory or procedural orders.

  • General Federal Law Practice Direction: Intellectual Property proceedings

    This Practice Direction applies nationally from 1 September 2021 to all intellectual property proceedings in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia.

  • FCFCOA Practice Direction – Transitional Arrangements

    The Chief Justice/Chief Judge of the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia has made new rules of court for all proceedings in the Court with effect from 1 September 2021. The new rules apply to all proceedings in the Court commenced before 1 September 2021 but not finally determined before that date in accordance with the transitional arrangements described at Part 2 of this PD. The Court retains the discretion to dispense with compliance with any provision of the new rules at all times, including where application of the new rules would operate unfairly or cause injustice.
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