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The Family Procedure Rules 2010
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2019-04-25
FAMILY PROCEEDINGS
SENIOR COURTS OF ENGLAND AND WALES
COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
MAGISTRATES’ COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES
These rules provide a new code of procedure for family proceedings in the High Court, county courts and magistrates’ courts, and replace existing rules of court for family proceedings. The principal rules being replaced are the Family Proceedings Rules 1991, the Family Procedure (Adoption) Rules 2005 and, in so far as they relate to family proceedings, the Family Proceedings Courts (Children Act 1989) Rules 1991, the Family Proceedings (Matrimonial Proceedings etc) Rules 1991, and rules relating to the reciprocal enforcement of maintenance orders, in particular the Magistrates’ Courts (Reciprocal Enforcement of Maintenance Orders) Rules 1974.
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.3(1A)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 6(a)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.4(1)
(1A)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 7(b)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.4(2)-(2B)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 7(c)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(c)(ii)(ad)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(c)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)
(ai)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(ii)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(ii)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(cc)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(k)(iii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(g)(iv)(dd)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(ii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(iii)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(l)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(h)(iii)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(m)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(n)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(j)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)
(ai)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(i)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(ii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(aa)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(bb)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(cc)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(o)(ii)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(k)(iii)(dd)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.8(1)(p)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 11(l)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.9(2)(e)
(f)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 13(d)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.10(1)
(1A)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 14(b)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.10(3)(ba)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 14(d)(i)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 3.10(3)(ca)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 14(d)(iii)
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
rule 28.3(7)(aa)
The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2023
rule 19
rule 1(3)(b)
The Family Procedure Rules 2010
Rules
The International Recovery of Maintenance (Hague Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance 2007) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018
reg. 8
reg. 1
PART 2APPLICATION AND INTERPRETATION OF THE RULES
Dates for compliance to be calendar dates and to include time of day2.10
1
Where the court makes an order or gives a direction which imposes a time limit for doing any act, the last date for compliance must, wherever practicable—
a
be expressed as a calendar date; and
b
include the time of day by which the act must be done.
2
Where the date by which an act must be done is inserted in any document, the date must, wherever practicable, be expressed as a calendar date.
3
Where “month” occurs in any order, direction or other document, it means a calendar month.