Ontario · Form 13.1

The Ontario Form 13.1 Financial Statement.

Form 13.1 is the Financial Statement (Property and Support Claims) under Ontario's Family Law Rules. Its instructions direct its use where a party is making or responding to a claim for property or for exclusive possession of the matrimonial home and its contents — on its own, or alongside other claims. This page explains what it asks for, part by part.

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What is Ontario Form 13.1?

Form 13.1 is titled “Financial Statement (Property and Support Claims).” It is a sworn or affirmed court form used to disclose financial information in an Ontario family-law case that involves property.

Rule 13 of the Family Law Rules governs financial disclosure. Where an application, answer or motion contains a support claim, a property claim, or a claim for exclusive possession of the matrimonial home and its contents, Rule 13 generally requires financial disclosure. The rule then distinguishes between Form 13 and Form 13.1 according to the claims in the case.

The instructions printed on Form 13.1 say to use it if you are making or responding to a claim for property or exclusive possession of the matrimonial home and its contents, either on its own or together with other claims for relief — and to use Form 13 instead if you are making or responding to a claim for support but not to a claim for property or exclusive possession.

Form 13.1 is the longer of the two. It carries everything the support-claims statement carries, and then adds the property machinery: three dated valuation columns, a date-of-marriage deduction, excluded property, disposed-of property, and the net family property calculation.

This page is general legal information, not legal advice. It does not determine which form you must file, decide what claims you should make, fix your valuation date, or apply the rules to your circumstances. The claims in your court documents, the Family Law Rules and the current official form decide which form applies.

The key distinction

Form 13.1 or Form 13?

The difference is the type of claim, not the size of your finances. The two forms are not interchangeable.

Property involved

Form 13.1 — Financial Statement (Property and Support Claims)

Directed by its own instructions to a claim for property or exclusive possession of the matrimonial home and its contents — whether or not support is also claimed. Nine parts, three dated columns, and the net family property calculation.

Support only

Form 13 — Financial Statement (Support Claims)

Used where there is a support claim but no property claim and no claim for exclusive possession. Five parts, single current values, no net family property calculation. Read the Form 13 guide →

Form 13's own instructions point the same way from the other side: a person making or responding to a claim for property, an equalization payment or the matrimonial home is directed to complete Form 13.1 instead of Form 13.

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What makes 13.1 different

Three dates, not one.

Form 13 asks what an asset is worth. Form 13.1 asks what it was worth on three separate dates, and every asset and debt in Parts 4 and 5 gets three columns. At the top of Part 4 the form asks you to state the date of marriage, the valuation date, and the date cohabitation began if it differs from the date of marriage.

Column 1

On date of marriage

What you owned and owed when the marriage began. These figures feed the Part 6 deduction — with a carve-out for a matrimonial home, explained below.

Column 2

On valuation date

The column that drives the arithmetic. Items [22], [23] and [26] all come from this column, and Part 9 builds the net family property figure out of them.

Column 3

Today

What you own and owe as at the date you swear or affirm the statement. It gives the court and the other party a current picture alongside the historical ones.

The valuation date is a legal question, and this page does not answer it. “Valuation date” is a defined term under Ontario's Family Law Act, and Form 13.1 asks you to state it. It is often connected to separation, but not always, and parties do dispute it. Getting it wrong moves every figure in Part 9. If the date is not obvious or is contested, that is a point to take to a lawyer before the form is sworn.

One instruction on the form is easy to miss and causes rejected filings: if any sections of Parts 4 to 9 do not apply, do not leave them blank — print “NONE” in the section.

The form itself

What Form 13.1 asks for.

Nine parts. The first three cover income, spending and household; the last six build the property picture.

Part 1 — Income

The form asks whether you are employed, self-employed or unemployed, and to attach proof of year-to-date income from all sources — it lists a pay cheque stub, pension stub, social assistance stub, workers' compensation stub, Employment Insurance stub with the last Record of Employment, or a statement of income and expenses for a self-employed person. It asks for last year's gross income from all sources before tax, and for personal income tax returns, notices of assessment and any notices of reassessment for each of the past three taxation years — or, where those are unavailable, a Canada Revenue Agency Income and Deductions printout.

  • Monthlyemployment income before deductions; commissions, tips and bonuses; self-employment income; Employment Insurance; workers' compensation; social assistance including ODSP; interest and investment income; pension income including CPP and OAS; spousal support received from a former spouse or partner; child tax benefits or rebates such as GST; other sources — totalled at line [12], then multiplied by 12 at line [13]
  • Item 14other benefits — non-cash benefits your employer provides or your business pays for, such as medical insurance coverage, use of a company car, or room and board, shown at yearly market value

Part 2 — Expenses

Monthly expenses in ten subtotalled sections: automatic deductions, housing, utilities, household expenses, childcare costs, transportation, health, personal, other expenses, and debt payments — with named lines for rent or mortgage, property taxes, condominium fees, groceries, telephone and internet, car insurance and licence, medicine and drugs, daycare, school fees and supplies, children's activities, summer camp, and support paid for other children. The form totals monthly expenses and then yearly expenses.

Part 3 — Other income earners in the home

Completed only if you are making or responding to a claim for undue hardship or spousal support. It asks whether you live alone, who you live with, how many children live in the home, whether a spouse or partner works and what they earn, and roughly what another adult in the home contributes to household expenses. On Form 13 this same material sits in Schedule B rather than in the body of the form.

Part 4 — Assets in and out of Ontario

Seven lettered sections, each with its own total, and each with the three dated columns:

  • 4(a)Land — any interest in land, including leasehold interests and mortgages. Show the estimated market value of your interest and do not deduct encumbrances or costs of disposition; those belong in Part 5. Total: item [15]
  • 4(b)General household items and vehicles — estimated market value, not replacement cost, with a column to indicate anything not in your possession. Total: item [16]
  • 4(c)Bank accounts, savings, securities and pensions — cash, accounts, pensions, registered plans, deposit receipts, bonds, warrants, options, notes and other securities, with institution, description and account number. Total: item [17]
  • 4(d)Life and disability insurance — every policy in existence on those dates, with owner, beneficiary and face amount. What totals into item [18] is the cash surrender value, not the face amount
  • 4(e)Business interests — an interest in an unincorporated business. An interest in an incorporated business may be shown here or in Part 4(c). Total: item [19]
  • 4(f)Money owed to you — from business or personal dealings, including court judgments in your favour, estate money and income tax refunds owed to you. Total: item [20]
  • 4(g)Other property — anything of any kind not listed above. Total: item [21]

Items [15] to [21] add up to item [22] — value of all property owned on the valuation date.

Part 5 — Debts and other liabilities

Debts by category on the same three dates — mortgages, charges, liens, notes, credit cards, accounts payable. The form specifically asks you not to forget money owed to the Canada Revenue Agency, contingent liabilities such as guarantees or warranties you have given (marked as contingent), and unpaid legal or professional bills arising from the case. Total: item [23].

Part 6 — Property, debts and other liabilities on date of marriage

The same categories as Part 4, valued at the date of marriage, split into an Assets column and a Liabilities column. Assets minus liabilities gives item [24] — net value of property owned on date of marriage. Items [23] and [24] together give item [25] — value of all deductions.

The matrimonial home carve-out. Part 6 instructs that you do not include the value of a matrimonial home, or debts and other liabilities directly related to its purchase or significant improvement, if you and your spouse ordinarily occupied that property as your family residence at the time of separation. Whether a particular property meets that description is a legal question, and it can change the result by a large amount.

Part 7 — Excluded property

The value, by category, of property owned on the valuation date that is excluded from the definition of net family property. The form gives gifts and inheritances received after marriage as examples. Total: item [26]. Whether something is excluded — and whether it can still be traced — is a legal question, not a data-entry one.

Part 8 — Disposed-of property

The value, by category, of all property you disposed of during the two years immediately before the statement is made, or during the marriage, whichever period is shorter. Total: item [27]. It is reported on the form; it does not enter the Part 9 arithmetic.

Part 9 — Calculation of net family property

Where the earlier items come together. See the walkthrough below.

Part 9

How the net family property calculation works.

Every figure in Part 9 has already been calculated somewhere earlier in the form. Part 9 just stacks them:

Value of all property owned on valuation datefrom [22]
Subtract value of all deductions — valuation-date debts [23] plus net date-of-marriage property [24]from [25]
Subtract total value of excluded propertyfrom [26]
Net family property[28]

Arithmetic is the easy half. Each input rests on a judgment that the form does not make for you: which date is the valuation date, what a business interest or a pension is worth, whether a property is a matrimonial home that was ordinarily occupied as the family residence at separation, and whether an asset is excluded. Those are the points to take to a lawyer.

Net family property is not the same as what you will receive. Item [28] is one party's figure on one party's form. What the equalization of net family properties produces, and whether any adjustment applies, is decided under Ontario's Family Law Act — not by filling in this box.

Don't miss these

The schedules, and Form 13A.

Schedule A — Additional sources of income. Required by the form's instructions if you have income not shown in Part 1 — the form gives partnership income, dividends, rental income, capital gains and RRSP income as examples. Its lines run from net partnership income through dividends from taxable Canadian corporations, capital gains, RRSP withdrawals and income from a RRIF or annuity, to a subtotal. Line 11 of Part 1 asks you to attach Schedule A and divide the annual amount by 12.

Schedule B — Special or extraordinary expenses for the child(ren). Required by the form's instructions if you or the other party has sought a contribution towards special or extraordinary expenses for a child. Each line takes the child's name, the expense, the annual amount and any available tax credits or deductions, and the schedule totals a net annual and net monthly amount. It also asks for the annual income to be used in determining your share.

The schedule letters differ between the two forms. On Form 13.1, Schedule B is special or extraordinary expenses. On Form 13, that is Schedule C, and Schedule B is other income earners in the home — which on Form 13.1 is Part 3 of the main form. Follow the letters printed on the form you are actually completing, not the letters you remember from the other one.

Form 13A — Certificate of Financial Disclosure. A separate form. The note on Form 13.1 says you must also provide the other party with documents relating to support and property and a Certificate of Financial Disclosure (Form 13A) as required by Rule 13. Form 13.1 is the financial statement; Form 13A is the certificate. They are not the same thing.

Supporting disclosure

The documents that go with it.

Form 13.1 does not operate in isolation — Rule 13 contains additional disclosure requirements, and Ontario's family-court guidance treats disclosure as both information and supporting documentation. Depending on your circumstances, that may include:

  • Proof of current year-to-date income from all sources
  • Personal income tax returns for each of the past three taxation years, including everything filed with them
  • Notices of assessment and reassessment for each of the past three taxation years, or a CRA Income and Deductions printout where those are unavailable
  • Records relating to self-employment income, where applicable
  • Records relating to Employment Insurance, workers' compensation or other benefits
  • Valuations and statements for real property, pensions and business interests — the assets most often disputed on a 13.1
  • Statements for bank accounts, investments and registered plans at each of the three dates
  • Mortgage, line of credit, loan and credit-card statements at each of the three dates
  • Documents supporting anything claimed as excluded property, where in issue
  • Documents supporting special or extraordinary child-related expenses, where in issue

Income-tax returns are treated differently. Serving a financial document and filing it in the continuing record are not always the same thing. Form 13.1 itself notes that income tax returns must be served but should not be filed in the continuing record, unless they are filed with a motion to refrain a driver's licence suspension. Check the current rule and court instructions before filing tax material — it contains highly sensitive personal information.

Not a one-time step

When Form 13.1 has to be updated.

A note printed on Form 13.1 itself states that the financial statement must be updated before any court event if it is:

  • More than 60 days old by the time of the case conference
  • More than 30 days old by the time the motion is heard
  • More than 40 days old by the start of the trial or the start of the trial sitting, whichever comes first

The same note gives two ways to update: file a new financial statement with updated information, or file an affidavit in Form 14A setting out any minor changes or confirming that the information in the existing statement remains correct. Ontario's Guide to Procedures in Family Court says the same, and adds that a financial statement should be updated whenever there has been a significant change in financial circumstances, at any stage. The applicable rule and current court guidance control the timing and the method.

Before you start

Points worth checking.

  • The right statement. Form 13 and Form 13.1 are prescribed for different claims. Compare the claims in your case against Rule 13 and the instructions on the current forms.
  • The three dates, stated once and used consistently. Part 4 asks you to write out the date of marriage, the valuation date and, if different, the date cohabitation began. Every column below depends on them.
  • Market value, not equity. Parts 4(a) and 4(b) ask for the market value of your interest without deducting encumbrances. The mortgage goes in Part 5. Netting it off in Part 4 double-counts the debt.
  • Cash surrender value, not face amount. Part 4(d) collects both, but item [18] totals the cash surrender value.
  • “NONE”, not blank. The form says sections of Parts 4 to 9 that do not apply must be marked, not left empty.
  • Contingent and professional liabilities. Part 5 specifically asks for money owed to the CRA, guarantees and warranties marked as contingent, and unpaid legal bills from this case.
  • The applicable schedules. Schedule A if you have income outside Part 1; Schedule B if a contribution to special or extraordinary child expenses is sought.
  • Supporting disclosure and Form 13A. Filling in the boxes does not complete the disclosure obligation under Rule 13.
  • Swearing or affirming. Form 13.1 is not finished because the tables are filled in — it is signed in front of a lawyer, justice of the peace, notary public or commissioner for taking affidavits.
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What a tool like this can and cannot do.

A guided tool can collect what you enter, organise it into the structure of the form, carry each asset and debt across the three dated columns, do the Part 6 and Part 9 arithmetic, flag fields left blank or figures that do not reconcile, work out which schedules your answers call for, and help you identify the categories of supporting documents.

It cannot, and will not:

  • decide whether you should make a property, equalization, child-support or spousal-support claim;
  • determine whether Form 13 or Form 13.1 is legally required in your case;
  • determine your valuation date;
  • decide whether a property is a matrimonial home ordinarily occupied as the family residence at separation;
  • decide whether an asset is excluded property, or value a pension, a business or an interest in land;
  • determine whether what you enter is true;
  • choose a litigation or settlement position, or predict what a court will decide; or
  • give legal advice, or act as your lawyer or representative.
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FAQ

Questions people actually ask.

What is the difference between Form 13 and Form 13.1?

Form 13.1 is the Financial Statement (Property and Support Claims). Its instructions say to use it where you are making or responding to a claim for property or exclusive possession of the matrimonial home and its contents, alone or with other claims. Form 13 is the Financial Statement (Support Claims), for a support claim with no property claim and no claim for exclusive possession. Form 13.1 adds three dated valuation columns and the net family property calculation. The Form 13 guide is here.

Do I use Form 13.1 if I am only claiming exclusive possession of the matrimonial home?

The instructions on Form 13.1 direct its use where a party is making or responding to a claim for property or for exclusive possession of the matrimonial home and its contents. Form 13's instructions point the same way, telling a person with a claim for property, an equalization payment or the matrimonial home to complete Form 13.1 instead. Which form is legally required in your case depends on the claims in the court documents and on Rule 13.

Why does Form 13.1 ask for values on three different dates?

Because the property calculation needs them. Parts 4 and 5 ask for the value of each asset and debt on the date of marriage, on the valuation date and today. The valuation-date column produces items [22], [23] and [26]; the date-of-marriage column produces the Part 6 deduction at item [24]; the “today” column gives a current picture.

What is the valuation date?

“Valuation date” is a defined term under Ontario's Family Law Act, and Form 13.1 asks the person completing it to state that date. It is often connected to separation, but not always, and it is sometimes disputed between the parties. Determining it in a particular case is a legal question this page does not answer — and because every Part 9 figure moves with it, it is worth getting advice on before the form is sworn.

Do I deduct the mortgage from the value of the house in Part 4(a)?

No. Part 4(a) says to show the estimated market value of your interest and not to deduct encumbrances or costs of disposition — those are shown under Part 5, “Debts and Other Liabilities.” Deducting the mortgage in Part 4 and then listing it again in Part 5 counts it twice.

What goes in Part 7 — excluded property?

Part 7 asks for the value, by category, of property owned on the valuation date that is excluded from the definition of net family property, and offers gifts or inheritances received after marriage as examples. Whether a particular asset qualifies is a legal question, not a data-entry one.

Can I leave a part blank if it does not apply to me?

No. The form says that if any sections of Parts 4 to 9 do not apply, they should not be left blank — print “NONE” in the section.

Is Schedule B the same on Form 13 and Form 13.1?

No, and this catches people out. On Form 13.1, Schedule B is Special or Extraordinary Expenses for the Child(ren). On Form 13 that material is Schedule C, and Schedule B is Other Income Earners in the Home — which on Form 13.1 is Part 3 of the main form. Follow the letters printed on the form in front of you.

Does Repmyself work out my net family property for me?

A guided tool can do the arithmetic on the figures you enter and explain neutral form terminology. It does not determine your valuation date, value a pension or a business, decide whether a property is a matrimonial home ordinarily occupied as the family residence at separation, decide whether an asset is excluded, or apply the law to contested facts.

Official sources

Where this comes from.

Part names, item numbers and quoted instructions on this page are taken from the text of the official Form 13.1. This page provides general legal and procedural information for Ontario. It does not determine whether a financial statement is required in any particular case, decide which form applies, fix a valuation date, value any asset, decide what claims a person should make, or provide legal advice. Rules and forms are amended; always confirm the current requirements against the Family Law Rules and the current official form before filing. Last source review: September 2026.

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