What is adjudication?

1. You apply and an adjudicator is appointed. Both sides put in submissions.
2. A determination usually comes back in weeks, not months.
3. The amount determined is payable. It does not decide your rights under the contract permanently.
4. It is time barred, and the time is short.
5. The window usually runs from the day their payment schedule reached you. If no schedule came, it runs from the day their answer was due. It does not run from the day you stopped waiting.
6. In some states, you must first give a written notice of intention. In Queensland there is no such notice at all. The steps really differ by state.
7. In YourCA, Where this claim stands, at the top of What came back in Financials, names the window and its last day. It also names the section of your state Act the window comes from.
8. If the step is the notice of intention, YourCA fills in the notice from your claim and your company record. That record is Company in Company admin.
9. Check the notice, sign it and serve it.
10. YourCA does not lodge an adjudication application, and does not send anything to your builder. The application and its submissions are yours.