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Preparing and filing financial remedy bundles under FPR 2010 PD 27A and the 2026 Financial Remedies Guide: structure, preliminary documents, position statements and page limits (England and Wales)

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This Practice Note outlines the supplementary and alternative obligations for compiling court bundles in financial remedy cases, covering the bundle’s layout and contents and the permitted length of documents as set out in the Family Procedure Rules 2010 (FPR 2010), in particular FPR 2010, PD 27A. It takes account of the Financial Remedies Guide (March 2026) (the FRG), in which the efficiency statements for High Court judges and for judges below High Court level were combined and adopted from 13 March 2026. It further offers practical direction on preliminary documents and position statements to be included in bundles for use in financial remedy proceedings. Compliance with FPR 2010, PD 27A is required to secure uniformity across England and Wales in the Family Court and the Family Division of the High Court in the preparation and filing of bundles. In November 2025, the sixth FPR 2010 PD update of 2025 introduced a revised FPR 2010, PD 27A, replacing the previous PD 27A concerning the preparation and filing of bundles. The revised FPR 2010, PD 27A takes effect from 2 March 2026 and there are no transitional arrangements, meaning it applies to all family proceedings from that date...

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