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Apply to keep your contact details confidential: Form C8

Use this form to ask the court to keep yours and your children's contact details private from other parties in family court proceedings.

• From: HM Courts & Tribunals Service
• Published: 1 January 2016
• Last updated: 15 January 2025 — See all updates

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Application form: C8

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Details

The contact details you provide will only be used by:

• the court
• the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass) or Cafcass Cymru

Your contact details will not be available to any other person, except by order of the court.

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Published 1 January 2016
Last updated 15 January 2025 + show all updates

1. 15 January 2025

   Question added to the form about residence in a refuge. Guidance updated in the 'omitted contact details' section of the form. Added a Welsh landing page .

2. 16 June 2021

   Statement of truth updated.

3. 21 December 2020

   Signature box amended to allow email submission.

4. 1 January 2016

   First published.