{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010/rule-9.5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/2955",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Procedure Rules 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-rules-2010",
  "path": "rule/9.5",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "9.5",
  "heading": "Where to start proceedings",
  "text": "(1) An application for a financial remedy must be filed—\n(a) if there are proceedings for a matrimonial order or a civil partnership order which are proceeding in the family court, in that court; or\n(b) if there are proceedings for a matrimonial order or a civil partnership order which are proceeding in the High Court, in the registry in which those proceedings are taking place.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . )",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in rule 9.5(1)(a) substituted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 23(a) (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Rule 9.5(2) omitted (22.4.2014) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No.3) Rules 2013 (S.I. 2013/3204), rules 1, 23(b) (with rule 137); S.I. 2014/954, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Rule 9.5(3) and words omitted (7.8.2017) by virtue of The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 2) Rules 2017 (S.I. 2017/741), rules 1(1), 6"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2955/rule/9.5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:22:56.480940+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}