Family Law Practice Direction: Medical procedure proceedings
This Practice Direction applies to all family law applications filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia relating to a child undertaking a major medical procedure.
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31 March, 2023 Family Law Practice Direction: National Contravention List
This Practice Direction establishes a National Contravention List which applies to any Application – Contravention filed either pursuant to Part VII Division 13A or Part XIIIA of the Family Law Act 1975 in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia from 1 September 2021.
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01 September, 2021 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.
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01 May, 2024 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.
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28 November, 2022 Family Law Practice Direction: Passport proceedings
This Practice Direction applies to family law applications seeking orders relating solely to a passport filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, including applications for orders to obtain or renew a passport; applications for orders for the delivery of a passport under section 67ZD of the Family Law Act 1975; and applications for injunctions related to passports under sections 68B or 114 of the Family Law Act.
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30 October, 2023 Family Law Practice Direction: Priority Property Pool Cases
This Practice Direction applies to family law applications meeting the criteria set out in this Practice Direction and filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Court)
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28 November, 2022 Family Law Practice Direction: Surrogacy proceedings
This Practice Direction applies to applications for parenting orders filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia in relation to a child born under a surrogacy arrangement, whether such arrangement is recognised under the laws of a State of Australia or otherwise. It does not apply to surrogacy proceedings where final parenting orders under Part VII of the Family Law Act 1975 have already been made in relation to the child.
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01 September, 2021 Family Law Practice Direction: Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act proceedings
This Practice Direction applies to family law proceedings under the Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia. The Trans-Tasman Proceedings Act 2010 does not apply to family law proceedings in respect of an application made under the Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction signed at The Hague on 25 October 1980; and relating to the status or property of a person who is not fully able to manage his or her own affairs.
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12 November, 2021 FCFCOA Information Notice: Applications for Review
This information notice provides the profession with information about jurisprudential and other developments that relate to Applications for Review of registrar decisions, since the commencement of the new case management pathway in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (the Court).
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01 September, 2021 FCFCOA Information Notice: Court Record
This information notice establishes the manner in which files in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia may be constituted.
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04 August, 2023 FCFCOA Information Notice: Pronunciation of names & forms of address
This Information Notice applies to all proceedings filed in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) and (Division 2) (Courts) in the Courts’ family law, migration and general federal law jurisdictions.
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01 September, 2021 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.
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01 September, 2021 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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28 January, 2022 FCFCOA Special Measures Information Notice – COVID-19 Electronic Subpoena Inspection
This Special Measures Information Notice sets out arrangements for the continued operation of subpoena inspections in the Dandenong, Dubbo, Melbourne, Newcastle, Parramatta, Sydney and Wollongong registries during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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04 November, 2022 FCFCOA Special Measures Information Notice: Hearing protocol
This protocol will apply to all hearings and other court events in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Division 1) and (Division 2) (the Courts) from 7 November 2022.
If you are in immediate danger, please call 000
For more information, see Safety at Court.
If you are making an enquiry for someone else, the Court may be limited in the information or response we are able to provide.
Where possible, the person should make their enquiry themselves.
