• Family Law Practice Direction: Parenting proceedings

    This Practice Direction sets out the procedure for all family law proceedings seeking parenting orders or any other order under Part VII of the Family Law Act 1975, save and except for surrogacy proceedings, passport proceedings, medical procedure proceedings or child maintenance proceedings.

  • Acknowledgment of service

    This form is used to acknowledge that documents have been served.

  • Affidavit of service by hand (divorce)

    This form is used by a person filing a sole application for divorce who is arranging service of the divorce application on their spouse by hand.

  • Application – contempt

    This form is used to apply for a person to be punished for contempt of court. An Affidavit must be filed at the same time stating the facts relied on in support of the application

  • Affidavit proving signature (divorce)

    If the person who serves an Application for Divorce by hand does not know the person served, the applicant must complete this form.

  • Notice of Appeal (Child Support)

    This form is used when seeking to appeal from a decision of the Administrative Review Tribunal (ART) in a child support first review or second review or from a decision of the Child Support Registrar (CSR) to issue a departure prohibition order.

  • Subpoena - General federal law and migration

    This form is used by a party in a migration or general federal law proceeding to ask the Court to issue a subpoena. A subpoena is a legal document issued by the Court.

  • Notice of Withdrawal as Lawyer

    This form is used by lawyers to advise the Court that they no longer act for their client. A lawyer may file a notice of withdrawal without leave of the Court only if, at least 7 days before filing the notice, the lawyer has served a notice of intention to withdraw on the party for whom the lawyer is acting.

  • Acknowledgment of service (divorce)

    This form is used to acknowledge that filed documents have been served.
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