End of grace period on applications for consent orders

On 8 April 2019, the Family Court of Australia announced that the extended grace period for filing applications for consent orders ended on 31 March 2019.

If you use ‘unguided’ eFiling or file at a court registry:

• If you eFile an Application for Consent Orders using the ‘unguided’ method, you MUST use the most recent version of the form.
• If you are filing a paper file an Application for Consent Orders at a court registry, you MUST use the most recent version of the form.

The Court recommends eFiling using the ‘unguided’ process.

If you use ‘guided’ eFiling:

Work is still underway to finalise IT systems changes to the ‘guided’ form.

• If you eFile an Application for Consent Orders using the ‘guided’ method, an extended grace period will apply until 31 May 2019.