Recent amendments to the Family Law Rules have now formally introduced the jointly retained expert to family law matters. A joint litigation expert is defined as a litigation expert engaged to provide expert evidence for two or more parties.

 Rule 20.2 (10) permits the court to make an order “engaging a joint litigation expert for two or more parties.”

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