1. Make an offer to settle

Think about your family law issues and how you want to resolve them in a way that works best for your family.

You can make an offer to settle that says how you would like to settle some or all the issues in your case. You can make an offer at any time, even before starting a family law case. 

There is no form that you must use to make an offer, but you must make sure you follow the rules.

You must serve your offer to settle on your partner, and their lawyer if they have one. Rule 6: Service of documents tells you how to serve your documents. There is also a guide on how to serve documents.

In your offer, you can specify a deadline for your partner to accept the offer. For example, you may give your partner up to a certain date, or time, or both, to respond to your offer.

If your partner does not accept by the deadline, then the offer is considered to have been withdrawn. This means you take back your offer.

If you do not specify a deadline, the offer remains open for your partner to accept until you formally withdraw it or the judge decides the issues in your offer.

You can also withdraw your offer by serving Form 12: Notice of Withdrawal, at any time before the offer is accepted.