(LPSN)File a Reply to the Counter Application

File a Reply to the Counter Application

You’ll need:

Fill out the Form 8 and schedules

If the Counter Application includes child or spousal support, fill out a Financial Statement (Form 4), if you didn’t do this as part of your own application.

See Complete a Provincial Court Financial Statement (Form 4) for help with the Financial Statement.

Fill out any applicable schedules:

  • Schedule 1 – Parenting arrangements
  • Schedule 2 – Child support
  • Schedule 3 – Contact with a child
  • Schedule 4 – Guardianship of a child
  • Schedule 5 – Spousal support
  • Schedule 6 – Property division in respect of a companion animal

Make copies

Make three sets of the documents you've prepared:

  • The original forms (with any attachments) for the court
  • A set for you
  • A set for the other person

File the documents

Take all the copies of your documents to the same Provincial Court Registry where you filed your original Application About a Family Law Matter.

The registry clerk keeps one set of the documents for the court file copy. They stamp the other copies and return them to you.

If the registry clerk won't accept your documents, find out why and get legal help.

There’s no fee for filing in Provincial (Family) Court.

Serve the Reply to a Counter application on the other person

Serve (give) the other person one copy of your filed documents by ordinary service. This means sending them to the address for service the other person gave on their documents.

You can serve them in any of the following ways:

  • by leaving the documents at their address for service
  • by mailing the documents by ordinary mail or registered mail to their address for service
  • by emailing the documents, if their address for service includes an email address,
  • by faxing the documents, if their address for service includes a fax number.

See Serve Provincial Court documents by ordinary or personal service for more information about serving documents by ordinary service.

Fill out a Certificate of Service (Form 7) and attach it to your own copy of your documents. You’ll need this if the court asks for proof that you served the documents on the other person.

Updated on 12 August 2024