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title: "Financial Statement (Family Law): completion and disclosure guide"
url: "https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-law/financial-statement"
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ai_level: "red"
version: 1
law_stated_as_at: "2026-10-17"
---

# Financial Statement (Family Law): completion and disclosure guide

> Link to the Court's current Financial Statement with a practical guide to completing it, the documents that must be served with it, the continuing duty of disclosure, and why AI must not prepare sworn figures.

Canonical page: https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-law/financial-statement  
Law stated as at: 2026-10-17

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## Key facts

- Kind: Form. A form to complete, or a guide to completing an official one.
- Practice area: [Family Law](https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-law.md)
- Jurisdictions: Australia, Commonwealth
- AI level: Red. Keep AI out of the decisive steps. A lawyer does the work.
- Law stated as at: 2026-10-17
- Status: Maintained. Checked on 2026-10-17 against the official form at fcfcoa.gov.au and the 5 authorities it cites, for Australia and Commonwealth.

## When to use it

Use for any party to a financial or property proceeding who must file a Financial Statement under r 6.06(4). Not needed for an Application for Consent Orders, which has its own financial disclosure.

## How AI may be used

Lawyer-led. The Financial Statement is sworn or affirmed evidence. AI may index and reconcile source documents into the lawyer's working schedules, but it must not complete the form or produce figures that go into it unchecked.

**AI may:**

- Index the documents r 6.06(7) requires and list what is missing
- Reconcile bank, superannuation and loan statements into a working schedule with a source reference for every figure, for the lawyer to check
- Compare an earlier Financial Statement with new statements and list changes that may trigger the 21-day update in r 6.06(6)

**AI must not:**

- Must not enter figures into the Financial Statement or write any part of it
- Must not estimate or value assets, businesses or defined benefit superannuation
- Must not process the other party's disclosed documents in a tool that fails PD-AI para 5.5 or r 6.04 (use for the proceeding only)

**The lawyer checks:**

- Every figure traced to a source document dated as at the date of swearing
- Trusts, companies and financial resources disclosed as r 6.06(2) requires
- Disposals of property in the 12 months before separation and since separation
- The client understands the affidavit, the undertaking and the continuing duty

## Authorities

- [Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) s 71B (duty of disclosure in financial proceedings and while preparing for them)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00275/latest/text)
- [Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021 (Cth) rr 6.01–6.04 (duty of disclosure, undertaking, use of documents)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2021L01197/latest/text)
- [Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia (Family Law) Rules 2021 (Cth) r 6.06 (financial or property proceedings: content, filing, changes, documents to serve)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/F2021L01197/latest/text)
- [Family Law Act 1975 (Cth) s 79 (alteration of property interests)](https://www.legislation.gov.au/C2004A00275/latest/text)
- [Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia, Practice Direction: Use of Artificial Intelligence (PD-AI), paras 4.7, 4.9, 5.5](https://www.fcfcoa.gov.au/pd/pd-ai)

## Official form

[Official form](https://www.fcfcoa.gov.au/fl/forms/financial-statement)

## Where this comes from

The official form is published by fcfcoa.gov.au; this page is a completion guide. Last checked on 2026-10-17.

## Full text and drafting notes

The full text and the drafting notes are not part of this public page. Signed-in firm accounts can read them at https://ailawframework.com/precedents/family-law/financial-statement and through the signed-in MCP connector https://ailawframework.com/mcp/firm.

*Practice guidance for planning and review. Confirm current primary sources and the requirements of the actual matter. This is general information, not legal advice.*