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=====Filing Financial Statements=====
Under Rule 7-1(10), the person who serves the Notice of Judicial Case Conference must also file and serve a Financial Statement in Form F8. (Normally, you'd do this at the same time that you're filing and serving the Notice of Judicial Case Conference.) Under Rule 7-1(11), the other parties must file and serve their own Financial Statements. The Financial Statements are due at least seven days before the date set for the JCC.
Each party must file and serve their Financial Statements at least seven days before the date set for the JCC, although this rule is rarely followed. Quite often, Financial Statements aren't received until the night before, or the morning of, the JCC. That's a shame, but it's better to get the other side's Financial Statement late than not at all. If you do get the Financial Statement just before the JCC, ask the judge if the start of the JCC can be delayed by five or ten minutes so that you can read the other side's Financial Statement.
====Preparing for judicial case conferences====
By the time you have your JCC, the claimaint will have served the respondent with their Notice of Family Claim. The respondent will have served the claimaint with their Response to Family Claim, and possibly also their Counterclaim. It really is a shame that the rule about exchanging Financial Statements isn't complied with better than it is, because preparing and reviewing these statements always lends important depth to claims being made in a court proceeding. The
===Settlement conferences===