What Form F9 does
Rule 5-1 contains financial-disclosure requirements. For child support, the Rules deem the parties to have complied with specified document-production requirements when they agree on the payor’s annual income, sign Form F9, and file it with the documents required by the form.
Documents still go with it
The current form requires the payor’s most recent personal income tax return and most recent notice of assessment to be filed with F9. If one or both are unavailable, the form contemplates filing what is available together with affidavit evidence explaining the missing material and supporting the reasonableness of the agreed income.
What F9 does not decide
Agreeing on annual income does not automatically settle every child-support issue. Table amount, special expenses, shared parenting, retroactive support and other issues may still require separate analysis.
Why this can reduce paperwork
Where income truly is agreed, F9 can narrow the disclosure dispute and reduce unnecessary document exchange. It should not be used to paper over uncertainty about self-employment income, corporate income, imputed income or other contested income questions.
Related guides
Form F8 financial statement · Child support applications · Child-support table helper.