Form of petition.
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entitled either in possession or in reversion, or any part thereof, for the benefit of her husband and of the children of the marriage or either or any of them (in these rules referred to as "settlement of a wife's property"}; (k) for the application of the whole or any part of the property comprised in any ante-nuptial or post-nuptial settlement made on the spouses, either for the benefit of the children of the marriage or of the spouses (in these rules referred to as "variation of marriage settlements"); (A) for an order (in these rules referred to as "a modification order') discharging, modifying or temporarily suspend- ing any order for alimony pending suit, maintenance of the children, maintenance, a secured provision, per- manent alimony, periodical payments or for securing periodical payments to a wife;
shall be made by notice in accordance with Form 2 issued out of the registry i
Provided that where the parties have agreed upon the terms of the proposed order the application may be made by summons to the registrar except in the case of an application under sub- paragraphs (g) or (b) of this paragraph.
(4) Except where these rules otherwise provide, every other application in a matrimonial cause or matter-
(a) shall be made to the registrar, and
(b) shall be made by summons.
5. (1) The petition (except in a suit for jactitation of marriage) shall state-
(a) the names of the parties to the marriage, the place and date of the marriage and the name and status of the wife before the marriage ;
(b) the principal addresses at which the parties to the marriage have cohabited within the jurisdiction or, if it be the case, that there has been no cohabitation within the jurisdiction;
(c) whether there are living any children of the marriage and, if so, the names and dates of birth or ages of such children and, if it be the case, that the parentage of any living child of the wife born during the marriage is in dispute;
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(d) the occupation of the husband and the residence and domicil of the parties to the marriage (or, in the case of a petition for presumption of death and dissolution of the marriage, the residence and domicil of the petitioner) at the date of the institution of the cause;
(e) in the case of a petition by a wife in which the court is alleged to have jurisdiction by virtue of section 46(1)(e) of the Ordinance, the domicil of the husband immediately before the desertion, deportation or expulsion, and the date when and the circumstances in which the alleged desertion began or, as the case may be, the date of the deportation or expulsion order;
(/) in the case of a petition by a wife in which the court is alleged to have jurisdiction by virtue of section 46(1)(b) of the Ordinance-
(i) (unless otherwise directed, and in lieu of the state- ment as to domicil required by sub-paragraph (d) of this paragrapli) the addresses at which the petitioner has resided during the three years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition and the length of her residence at each address; and
(i) whether to the knowledge of the petitioner pro- ceedings for dissolution or nullity of the marriage or judicial separation or restitution of conjugal rights, or for other relief in respect of the marriage, are pending in any other country and, if so, the nature of those proceedings;
(g) in the case of a petition by a wife in which the court is alleged to have jurisdiction by virtue of section 46(2) of the Ordinance, (unless otherwise directed, and in lieu of the statement as to domicil required by sub-paragraph (d) of this paragraph) the addresses at which the petitioner has resided during the three years immediately preceding the presentation of the petition and the length of her residence at each address ;
(A) whether there have been any, and if so what, previous proceedings (including any application under rule 2) with reference to the marriage or the children of the marriage by or on behalf of either of the parties to the