(LSRS)Receive and review further documents

Receive and review further documents

You'll need

Any new affidavits from the applicant
The Application Record Index

More affidavits

After the other person receives your documents, they might send you one or more additional affidavits. These documents must be served on you before 4 pm on the business day that's the business day before the date set for the hearing. Any new affidavits should contain only new information not included in the earlier affidavits served with the Notice of Application (Form F31).

Application Record Index

The other person must provide the court with a binder of all the material for the hearing, including your Response and your affidavits. This is called the Application Record. The other person must provide you with the index to the Application Record, which lists the documents that are included in the binder, no later than 4 pm on the business day that's the business day before the hearing.

If any documents are missing from the index

Review the index carefully to make sure that all the documents you want to show to the judge are included in the Application Record. If something's missing from the index, tell the other person immediately, by fax or email if possible, and ask them to include the missing documents. (Make a copy of this letter for the judge.)

Bring two extra copies of any missing documents to the hearing so that you can give one each to the judge and the other person, if necessary. Bring along the Affidavit(s) of Ordinary Service to prove that the documents were delivered to the other person and should have been in the Application Record.

You can make an Application Record for your own use in court. An Application Record can help you to organize the information and evidence that you need in court. See Step 6.

If you and the other person come to an agreement before the hearing about any of the orders that the other person wants, you can change your agreement without going to court, or you can both go to court on the date set for the hearing to tell the judge that you've both agreed. The judge can then make a consent order that will replace all or part of your agreement.