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19/06/2026

The key thing to know is that a Final Order in Divorce does NOT finalise the financial claims against each other.

Your ideal timeline, which will take around 6 months, is this:

▪️Make a divorce application (you can now do this jointly under the no fault divorce law). Many couples navigate this themselves on the gov.uk website. There is a court fee of £593 but you shouldn’t need to pay any more (we don’t charge any fees to help our clients through the process)

▪️Start taking about the division of your finances (and arrangements for your children if you have any)

▪️Get some legal advice- shared lawyers are great!- and come to a deal

▪️During this time your Conditional Order in the divorce will come through

▪️You can now apply for your agreement on the finances to be converted into a financial consent order. You’ll need help drafting a court order and the associated forms- we do it and so do many others. Be careful to ensure if you’re getting legal advice that it’s a solicitor or barrister helping you who is practising, regulated and insured.

▪️A Family Judge will then review your financial consent order and, hopefully, approve it

▪️You can then apply for the Final Order in your divorce. Then you’re done! ☑️

17/06/2026

Lots of people navigating divorce continue to live together while they are making their long term plans. Form many couples, it simply isn’t affordable for one of them to move out in the short term.

That’s completely fine from a legal perspective. But do make sure you reach an agreement about your finances and get a financial consent order reflecting that agreement. Remember this is different from the final order in your divorce- you need BOTH to finalise your divorce and your financial claims against each other.

16/06/2026

The decision in Imerman v Tchenguiz reminded us all that family lawyers must operate within the general law and that different rules do not apply simply because the subject matter concerns family relations, rather than, say, commercial ones.

15/06/2026

We hope this is helpful!

In times gone by, the Family Court tolerated the practice of one spouse helping themselves to the other’s financial info...
15/06/2026

In times gone by, the Family Court tolerated the practice of one spouse helping themselves to the other’s financial information, on the basis it would likely be relevant to the financial disclosure exercise, and therefore ought to be disclosed anyway.

This put the Family Court on a very different track to other branches of the law and ultimately could not be sustained. The practice of self-help came to a crashing halt in the case of Imerman v Tchenguiz in 2010.

This is a complicated area, and you should take independent legal advice if you find yourself in this position because if you take material to which you are not entitled, you are at risk of committing a criminal offence, or exposing yourself to a claim for damages, or possibly both.

12/06/2026

Yes we have a co-parenting service! We can advise you both together- if you click on our link in bio you can book in a free guidance call and we can explain how we might be able to help 🔗

12/06/2026

We hope this helps!

10/06/2026

Step one- ask for disclosure of the pension and assess its value in the context of your other assets. To do this, it would be work getting some legal advice, ever just for one meeting. The value of pensions isn’t always clear from the pension statements, for instance some final salary schemes can be notoriously difficult to value from the CETV statement. There are legal remedies if this turns out to be a significant asset, but first I’d want you to explore the cost/benefit analysis. So you’re not pursuing a legal remedy if in fact it’s a tiny pension which wouldn’t have made a difference two years ago

The ‘no order principle’ is a principle family judges have to apply in every case concerning children which comes before...
08/06/2026

The ‘no order principle’ is a principle family judges have to apply in every case concerning children which comes before them.

It simply means that the court will only interfere if that would be better for the child than making no court order at all.

So what does that mean for you? Well, if you both agree the arrangements for your children, the court will not interfere. There is no supervisory element, as there is when it comes to your finances, to ensure your agreement is legally fair. Unless you both fundamentally disagree and ask a judge to interfere in your family life, they won’t.

08/06/2026

Hope this helps!

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