Serve your 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. For example, you may already have filed and served your Financial Statement (Form F8).
- The other person's address for service
- An Affidavit of Ordinary Service (Form F16)
Make copies
Make three copies of all your Application Response (Form F32) and every affidavit and other documents and any exhibits or attachments you referred to. If any of these documents have already been filed, you only need two copies. You will need the copies when you file the documents with the Supreme Court Registry in Step 5.
Your timeframe
You have a strict timeframe. If you're going to oppose the other person's application, you must serve the documents for the hearing within five business days of being served with the Notice of Application (Form F31). If you don't serve these documents, the applicant can continue with the application and will appear at the court hearing without you. Orders can be made in your absence.
Serve the documents on the other person
You can serve these documents by ordinary service. This means that 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 by ordinary service. If the other person doesn't attend the hearing, the Affidavit of Ordinary Service will prove to the judge that you served the documents in time.