Which online divorce service?
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Has anyone here used one of the quick online divorce services? If so any recommendations, I've looked at a couple and found very mixed reviews on their Facebook pages.
Ours isn't too complicated, just a split of the marital home, a joint savings account, agree some child maintenance and then join owned stuff in the house. Have kept separate finances etc. so I'm hoping this will make it easier and quicker.
I'm not sure if in order to create the clean break agreement all finances and pensions etc. need to be declared or can we just put what we're happy with?
Thanks
Ours isn't too complicated, just a split of the marital home, a joint savings account, agree some child maintenance and then join owned stuff in the house. Have kept separate finances etc. so I'm hoping this will make it easier and quicker.
I'm not sure if in order to create the clean break agreement all finances and pensions etc. need to be declared or can we just put what we're happy with?
Thanks
None of them are truly quick or straightforward. You can get a head start on paperwork online but you are still looking at the 1 year mark or more. Courts are busy. So that’s the bottleneck. Online makes it look appealing to get going quicker but when you are talking splitting assets then it’s not as straightforward.
Unlikely to be all done and dusted within 8 months. Best to ask them on timelines. It does speed things up but as said it ultimately rests with how busy the courts are.
I divorced my husband last year. After I caught him in our bed with another woman.
Unlikely to be all done and dusted within 8 months. Best to ask them on timelines. It does speed things up but as said it ultimately rests with how busy the courts are.
I divorced my husband last year. After I caught him in our bed with another woman.
EddyP said:
Has anyone here used one of the quick online divorce services? If so any recommendations, I've looked at a couple and found very mixed reviews on their Facebook pages.
Ours isn't too complicated, just a split of the marital home, a joint savings account, agree some child maintenance and then join owned stuff in the house. Have kept separate finances etc. so I'm hoping this will make it easier and quicker.
I'm not sure if in order to create the clean break agreement all finances and pensions etc. need to be declared or can we just put what we're happy with?
Thanks
If everything isnt declared, how do you think that will look to any court reviewing the agreement in 5 yrs time?Ours isn't too complicated, just a split of the marital home, a joint savings account, agree some child maintenance and then join owned stuff in the house. Have kept separate finances etc. so I'm hoping this will make it easier and quicker.
I'm not sure if in order to create the clean break agreement all finances and pensions etc. need to be declared or can we just put what we're happy with?
Thanks
If you actually want an agreement that might stand long term I dont see how you can *not* declare everything.
Thanks for the comments guys, after reading more into it I've started the process online myself with the gov website today.
Will make sure we sort a consent order, downloaded a form for this and how we have to declare everything, weirdly it doesn't have a part for declaring what we want the split to be, will have to look into it more.
Will make sure we sort a consent order, downloaded a form for this and how we have to declare everything, weirdly it doesn't have a part for declaring what we want the split to be, will have to look into it more.
I used quickie divorce. I thought it was good, had to chase them a couple of times but on the whole it saved a fortune.
We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
Edited by interstellar on Monday 27th September 21:33
interstellar said:
I used quickie divorce. I thought it was good, had to chase them a couple of times but on the whole it saved a fortune.
We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
That's the sort of story I wanted to hear, thank you. We have no plans to touch each others pensions. Our daughter will be living with her mum full time though and I won't see her so I guess maintenance will be higher, although we've both agreed it's not as much as £500/month which is what the government calculator suggests! Once we identify a new nursery we'll work out the detailed costs and use that in the consent order.We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
Edited by interstellar on Monday 27th September 21:33
interstellar said:
I used quickie divorce. I thought it was good, had to chase them a couple of times but on the whole it saved a fortune.
We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
Sounds a good woman, you should have stayed with her We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
Edited by interstellar on Monday 27th September 21:33
hyphen said:
interstellar said:
I used quickie divorce. I thought it was good, had to chase them a couple of times but on the whole it saved a fortune.
We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
Sounds a good woman, you should have stayed with her We paid £850 including the £550 court fee so £300 and they filled it all in etc and posted everything to the courts and sent us everything by dhl and dhl hand collected stuff going to them. It was far less hassle and we didn’t declare everything like above. (you don’t have to do full financial disclose in every Divorce). We split everything 50/50 apart from pensions and that’s what we wanted . We put that in the order and it included a clean break.
Before we got divorced when we separated after 8 months, we sold the family home, both moved into rented, split the savings and closed our joint account. We simplified it yes but you still have to go through the paperwork. For £300 for them to fill it all it was a bargain and done start to finish in 6 months although I understand now courts are busier. Ours was in 2019.
If it’s child maintenance then it’s a bit more to it. We share our daughter 50/50 so there is no maintenance. We agreed an amount for me to give the ex as I earn more and the courts agreed it was right. Overall, it wasn’t too painful.
Edited by interstellar on Monday 27th September 21:33
EddyP said:
Thanks for the comments guys, after reading more into it I've started the process online myself with the gov website today.
Will make sure we sort a consent order, downloaded a form for this and how we have to declare everything, weirdly it doesn't have a part for declaring what we want the split to be, will have to look into it more.
This was my route too. Will make sure we sort a consent order, downloaded a form for this and how we have to declare everything, weirdly it doesn't have a part for declaring what we want the split to be, will have to look into it more.
No problems
It all depends if you want to go down the PH-massive routing of SWT etc etc.
YMMV
ThunderSpook said:
What’s the easiest way to get a consent order? Does the Quickie option give you that?
It’s more of a name really “quickie divorce”. They do different levels but had them do our divorce plus the consent order so it was their “managed divorce” product I think. In time consent orders will be standard I think
Edited by interstellar on Tuesday 28th September 15:21
I used Divorce online https://www.divorce-online.co.uk/?gclid=EAIaIQobCh... back in 2010/2011 and although not really quick, action started April 2010 divorce final 22/02/2011, I thought that was acceptable. It was an uncontested divorce, I divorced my ex for adultery, and we agreed the finaces sensibly. We also went 'Clean break' which adds a few weeks.
I know it's now 10 years ago but on my experience I would recommend them.
I know it's now 10 years ago but on my experience I would recommend them.
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