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Rule 13: Financial Disclosure 🎞️
Rule 19: Document Disclosure
Rule 20: Questioning and Disclosure
Request for Information (RFI)
Rule 22: Request to Admit
- Factum
- Offer to Settle
- Form 4: Notice of Change in Representation
- How to Fill Form 4 🎞️
- Form 6: Acknowledgment of Service
- Form 6B: Affidavit of Service
- How to Complete Form 6B 🎞️
- Form 8: Application (General)
- Form 8.01: Automatic Order
- Form 8A: Application (Divorce)
- Form 10: Answer
- Form 10A: Reply
- Form 12: Notice of Withdrawal
- Form 13: Financial Statement (Support Claims)
- Form 13A: Certificate of Financial Disclosure
- Form 13B: Net Family Property Statement
- Form 13C: Comparison of Net Family Property Statements
- Form 13.1: Financial Statement (Property and Support Claims)
- Form 14: Notice of Motion
- Form 14A: Affidavit (General)
- Form 14B: Motion Form
- Form 14C: Confirmation of Motion
- Form 14D: Order on Motion Without Notice
- Form 15: Motion to Change
- Form 15B: Response to Motion to Change
- Form 15C: Consent Motion to Change
- Form 15D: Consent Motion to Change Child Support
- Form 17: Conference Notice
- Form 17A: Case Conference Brief – General
- Form 17B: Case Conference Brief for Protection Application or Status Review
- Form 17C: Settlement Conference Brief – General
- Form 17D: Settlement conference brief for protection application or status review
- Form 17E: Trial Management Conference Brief
- Form 17F: Confirmation of Conference
- Form 17G: Certificate of Dispute Resolution
- Form 20: Request for Information
- Form 20.2: Acknowledgment of Expert’s Duty
- Form 22: Request to Admit
- Form 22A: Response to Request to Admit
- Form 23: Summons to Witness
- Form 23A: Summons to Witness Outside Ontario
- Form 23C: Affidavit for Uncontested Trial
- Form 25: Order (General)
- Form 25A: Divorce Order
- Form A-25A: Divorce Order (One Page)
- Form 25D: Order (Uncontested Trial)
- Form 25E: Notice Disputing Approval of Order
- Form 25F: Restraining Order
- Form 25G: Restraining Order on Motion without Notice
- Form 25H: Order Terminating Restraining Order
- Form 26: Statement of Money Owed
- Form 26A: Affidavit of Enforcement Expenses
- Form 26B: Affidavit for Filing Domestic Contract with Court
- Form 27: Request for Financial Statement
- Form 27A: Request for Statement of Income
- Form 27B: Statement of Income from Income Source
- Form 29: Request for Garnishment
- Form 29A: Notice of Garnishment (Lump-Sum Debt)
- Form 29B: Notice of Garnishment (Periodic Debt)
- Form 29D: Statutory Declaration of Indexed Support
- Form 29H: Notice of Garnishment Hearing
- Form 29I: Notice to Stop Garnishment
- Form 29J: Statement to Garnishee Financial Institution re Support
- Form 30: Notice of Default Hearing
- Form 30A: Request for Default Hearing
- Form 30B: Default Dispute
- Form 31: Notice of Contempt Motion
- Form 32: Bond (Recognizance)
- Form 32.1: Request to Enforce a Family Arbitration Award
- Form 32.1A: Dispute of Request for Enforcement
- Form 34A: Affidavit of Parentage
- Form 34J: Affidavit of Execution and Independent Legal Advice (Children’s Lawyer)
- Form 35.1: Affidavit (decision-making responsibility, parenting time, contact)
- Form 36: Affidavit for Divorce
- Form 36A: Certificate of Clerk (Divorce)
- Form 36B: Certificate of Divorce
- Form 37: Notice of Hearing
- Form 37A: Information Sheet
- Form 37B: Direction to Request Further Information
- Form 37C: Notice of Continuation of Hearing
- Form 37E: Notice for Taking Further Evidence
- Form 38: Notice of Appeal
- Form 39: Notice of Approaching Dismissal
Stonewalling
Rush Trial
Mislead Court
Lie in Conference Briefs
Avoid Financial Disclosure
Request Unnecessary Adjournments
Playing Dumb
Exploit SRLs
General -Temporary or Procedural
Temp. Child or Spousal Support
Temp. Parenting Order
Substituted Service
- What are orders?
- Temporary Orders🎞️
- Final Orders 🎞️
- Draft Orders
- Order Issued from Endorsement 🎞️
- Standard Clauses for Orders
- Minutes of Settlement 🎞️
- Change a Temporary Order 🎞️
- Change a Final Order 🎞️
- Enforcement of a Court Order 🎞️
- Set Aside An Uncontested Order
- For Appeals of Orders, see “Appeals” section