Checklist · Family Law
Section 60I and section 66H certificate checklist before a parenting application
A file note of whether a section 60I or section 66H certificate is on the file, which single category it uses, and whether the last attendance or attempt is inside 12 months.
- Kind
- Checklist. Steps or checks to work through and tick off.
- Where it applies
- Australia
- AI use
- Yellow You and the tool draft together, with you directing. You check every statement you rely on.
- Law stated as at
- 22 October 2026
- Status
- Maintained. Checked on 22 October 2026 against the 2 authorities it cites, for Australia.
- Version
- 1
- Source
- Written for this library
When to use it
Use before filing a parenting application, and when a certificate arrives. It records the certificate the practitioner issued. It does not ask the practitioner to issue one, and it is not evidence of what happened in family dispute resolution.
Used for these tasks
Each task page says how far AI may help with the task and what the lawyer must review.
How AI may be used
AI may record the category, the two dates on the certificate, and whether 12 months have passed; the lawyer decides whether the Court can hear the application and whether an exception is claimed.
AI may
- Read a certificate already on the file and enter its category and dates into this checklist
- Count 12 months from the date of last attendance or last attempt printed on the certificate
- Note whether the file is a married couple or parents who were never married, where the Family Court of Western Australia is the court
AI must not
- Must not draft a section 60I or section 66H certificate, or ask a practitioner to issue a particular category
- Must not put the contents of family dispute resolution into an affidavit or a court submission
- Must not describe a party's account of family violence in this checklist
The lawyer checks
- The certificate is from an accredited practitioner, uses one category only, and names the date last attended or attempted and the date of issue
- The last attendance or attempt is within 12 months, using the page's meaning of attempted
- In the Family Court of Western Australia, section 60I or section 66H matches the jurisdiction that Court will exercise
- If no certificate will be filed, the exception relied on is identified from the Act, not assumed from the examples on the page
Method: how the Green, Yellow and Red levels are decided. This is guidance for planning, not legal advice.
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