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Family Law Fees

Cheques or Money orders for the payment of fees should be made payable to the Federal Circuit Court.

A number of fees apply to Federal Circuit Court proceedings pursuant to Schedule 1 of the Family Law (Fees) Regulation 2012.

Section 2.13 specifies a biennial increase in fees.

The fees listed below were effective from 1 January 2013.

$800 Application for divorce
$265*Application for divorce - Reduced fee
$500 Application for children and property
$305 Application (for children or property)
$305 Response, seeking different orders sought by applicant (for children or property)
$560 Setting down fee for hearing (defended matter)
$560 Daily Hearing Fee (for each hearing day, or part of a hearing day, excluding the first hearing day)
$105 Application for interim order
$50 Issuing a subpoena
$350 Conciliation conference
Nil Child Support Application/Response

* In some cases a reduced fee may be sought for a divorce application or in respect of other fees, an exemption, if you hold certain government concession cards or you can demonstrate financial hardship.

For more information on exemptions and refunds please see the following link:

Family Law Court Fees Brochure (located on the Family Law Courts web site)

[Please note these links will take you out of this web site and into the Family Law Courts web site. To get back to the FCC web site use the "back" button of on your browser. Copies of these forms are provided as MS Word, RTF and PDF documents.]

See also:

PDF printable version of the Family law fees payable as at 1 January 2013

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