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===Financial statements===

When an application to change a child support order is made, one or both parents will have to share their financial information. This information is almost always given in a court form called a Financial Statement, Form F8 in the Supreme Court and Form 4 in the Provincial Court. Like affidavits, financial statements must be sworn before a notary public, a lawyer, or a commissioner for taking affidavits. 

Here are the rules about when one or both parents have to provide a financial statement:

*The payor must produce a financial statement describing their income if the payor is paying child support according to the Guidelines tables.
*Both parents must produce financial statements describing their income if each parent has the primary residence of one or more of the children or the parents share the children's time equally or near-equally.
*Both parties must produce complete financial statements describing their income, expenses, assets, and liabilities if the application includes a claim about the children's special expenses or extraordinary expenses, a claim for undue hardship, if the payor's income is above $150,000 per year, or if one or more of the children are over the age of majority.

Financial statements give the court the information it needs to make a new child support order.