Steps to complete, serve and file your financial disclosure documents

It is important to follow the outlined steps when completing, serving and filing your financial disclosure documents.

Step 1: complete your Financial Statement

To start your financial disclosure, you will need to complete either:

• Form 13: Financial Statement (Support Claims) if your case involves child support or spousal support, but not property issues
• Form 13.1: Financial Statement (Property and Support Claims) if your case involves claims regarding property or debts (whether or not your case also involves support issues)

Filling out your Financial Statement

When filling your Financial Statement (Form 13 or Form 13.1), you should:

• pay attention to the timing of the information you are providing – you may have to provide financial information from a certain time period
• multiply the weekly cost of an expense by 4.3 to get the monthly amount
• multiply the monthly cost of an expense by 12 to get the yearly amount
• divide the annual cost by 12 to get the monthly cost
• make sure your handwriting is clear and legible if you choose to fill it in by hand
• fill out all the information you are asked for, court staff cannot fill in the forms for you

You will need to swear or affirm that the information in your Financial Statement is true and sign it in front of a commissioner for taking affidavits. There are commissioners at all family court offices who will commission the form for free.

Get help completing your court forms

If you want help filling out the financial disclosure forms and you don’t have a lawyer, you can:

• visit a Family Law Information Centre (FLIC)
• use the Guided Pathways to Family Court Forms
• visit the Steps to Justice website

Step 2: collect and certify your financial documents

Once you have completed your financial statement you will need to collect your supporting financial documents and fill out Form 13A: Certificate of Financial Disclosure. This will confirm with the court which financial documents you have served on the other party.

Step 3: serve your financial disclosure documents

Once you have collected and completed your financial disclosure documents, you should make at least two copies of all your completed forms – one for yourself, one for the other party and the original for the court.

Serve the other party with a copy of your:

• completed Financial Statement (Form 13 or Form 13.1)
• completed Certificate of Financial Disclosure (Form 13A)
• all supporting financial documents

Once you have served your document, you will need to complete and swear or affirm Form 6B: Affidavit of Service to prove that you served the required financial forms and documents on the other party.

See Rule 6 in the Family Law Rules or serving your documents for more information.

Step 4: file your financial disclosure documents

Once you have completed and served your financial disclosure documents, you will need to file a copy of your:

• completed Financial Statement (Form 13 or Form 13.1)
• completed Certificate of Financial Disclosure (Form 13A)
• certain supporting financial documents (including proof of your current income and your Notices of Assessment and any Notices of Reassessment for the past three years)
• completed Affidavit of Service (Form 6B).

You can file your documents online or in-person at the courthouse. Learn more about filing your family court documents.