Copy, file, and serve your response documents
You'll need
- Your Application Response (Form F32)
- Every Affidavit (Form F30) and every document you intend to refer to in court, if it hasn't already been filed at the registry as part of this case
- Your Financial Statement (Form F8), if needed
- $25 to file an Application Response
- The other person's address for service
- An Affidavit of Ordinary Service (Form F16) (PDF)
Make copies
Make four copies of all your completed documents and any exhibits or attachments:
- The registry keeps the original
- One copy is for you
- Two copies are served on the other person
- One copy is to attach to the Affidavit of Ordinary Service (Form F16)
File the forms at the Supreme Court registry
Take the original and three copies, plus the filing fees, to the Supreme Court registry.
A clerk at the registry will take your money, check your documents, stamp them with the court seal, and put the originals into the file for your case. The four copies of the forms will be returned to you.
Give the documents to the other person
You need to serve two copies of the Application Response, Affidavits and any exhibits that haven't already been served, and financial statement (if you completed one) on the other person within 14 business days of being served with the Notice of Application (Form F31).
You can serve these documents by ordinary service. This means you can:
- leave the documents at the other person's address for service (the address they put on their court documents, such as their Notice of Application),
- mail the documents by regular post to the other person's address for service, or
- email or fax the documents, if the other person provided an email address or fax number as part of their address for service.
For more information on serving documents and help with filling out an Affidavit of Ordinary Service (Form F16), see Serve Supreme Court documents. If the other person doesn't attend the hearing, the Affidavit of Ordinary Service will prove to the judge that you served the documents.