Commonwealth Numbered Regulations

1984 No. 425 FAMILY LAW RULES - ORDER 16 RULE 6

6. An affidavit to which this Division applies, being the affidavit filed with
the application instituting the relevant proceedings, shall specify concisely,
insofar as relevant, and be confined to-

   (a)  the principal places at which, and the approximate periods during
        which, the parties have cohabited, whether before or after the
        marriage;

   (b)  the date of final separation and the significant breaks (if any) in
        cohabitation;

   (c)  the significant assets of each of the parties at the date cohabitation
        commenced;

   (d)  the financial history of the marriage including the employment of the
        parties;

   (e)  the assets and financial resources acquired during the period of
        cohabitation and the source of the funds from which each such asset
        was acquired;

   (f)  particulars of any trust, settlement or estate of or in which a party
        to, or child of, the marriage is a settlor, trustee or beneficiary or
        in respect of which such a party or child is entitled to appoint a
        trustee or otherwise able to exercise control;

   (g)  financial particulars of living arrangements with any other person
        with whom the deponent shares accommodation;

   (h)  particulars of the means, needs, assets and financial resources of the
        children of the marriage, and of any other dependents of the parties,
        and of any facts relied on with respect to any matter referred to in
        sub-section 79 (4) of the Act other than as set out in a statement or
        affidavit filed pursuant to Order 17, rule 2;

        (i)    particulars of real property in which the parties or either of
               them have an interest either at law or in equity, with
               particulars of the interests of any other person in that
               property, and an itemised estimate of value of the interest of
               the parties or either of them, and the basis on which that
               estimate is arrived at;

   (j)  the age and state of health of each of the parties; and

   (k)  any other matters necessary to support the application and to enable
        the issues to be defined.