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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-2.53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991/rule-2.53.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/1247",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings Rules 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-rules-1991",
  "path": "rule/2.53",
  "kind": "rule",
  "number": "2.53",
  "heading": "Application by petitioner or respondent for ancillary relief",
  "text": "(1) Any application by a petitioner, or by a respondent who files an answer claiming relief, for—\n(a) an order for maintenance pending suit,\n(b) a financial provision order,\n(c) a property adjustment order,\nshall be made in the petition or answer, as the case may be.\n(2) Notwithstanding anything in paragraph (1), an application for ancillary relief which should have been made in the petition or answer may be made subsequently—\n(a) by leave of the court, either by notice in Form M11 or at the trial, or\n(b) where the parties are agreed upon the terms of the proposed order, without leave by notice in Form M11.\n(3) An application by a petitioner or respondent for ancillary relief, not being an application which is required to be made in the petition or answer, shall be made by notice in Form M11.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "revoked",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "am. (references to any of rules 2.52-2.70 shatl be read as references to those rules as they were before these rules came into force)",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/3491",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/295",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 1993"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/1056",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment No. 2) Rules 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/2000/2267",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2003/184",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) Rules 2003"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2005/2922",
      "affecting_title": "The Family Proceedings (Amendment) (No. 5) Rules 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/1247/rule/2.53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:43:52.905656+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."
}