Going Through Divorce...
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A Partner Who is Addicted to Alcohol or Drugs
How to deal with a partner who is an alcoholic or drug abuser. Includes details of relevant organisations....
Abusive Relationships
So you've made the decision to stay in your relationship, but you've got a sinking feeling about what will happen the next time you fall out. If you suffer abuse from your partner, are you staying for...
Access Rights
Arranging visitation or contact rights between parents and children in a divorce. What options are open to a couple, what is best decided between them, and how the court process works....
Am I Statistically Likely to Get Divorced?
This article discusses the statistics for how men and women have each filed for divorce, and the reasons why people are more or less likely to divorce....
Are You Ready to Forgive?
If you've been hurt badly by your partner, you may wonder whether you will be able to forgive them. Take our questionnaire to find out whether you might be ready to forgive them yet....
Becoming Intentionally Homeless: Your Rights
Are you worried about leaving your spouse and having nowhere to go? If you do, have you made yourself intentionally homeless? Find out what this means, and how you can ensure that you don't fall into ...
Buying Your Ex Out of the Family Home
How to buy out your ex-partner’s share of the home in order that you can keep it should you decide to divorce. Factors that can have implications on your share of the home’s equitable value and how go...
Can a Wife Force Her Husband to Move Out?
Can one spouse force the other to leave the family home without a court order?...
Can I Legally Force My Ex to Sell Our Property?
Can one spouse force the sale of the jointly-owned marital property? Find out more here....
Can Mediation Help in a Divorce?
Using Mediation to help you agree the terms of your divorce or separation. Describes the stages of the process and outlines the issues dealt with....
Can Redundancy Pay Be Used In Divorce Settlement?
Can a redundancy payment be taken into account after a clean break consent order is granted in a divorce?...
Can You Afford a Divorce?
If you have been considering divorce you may be concerned about the financial implications, as well as the cost of the actual divorce process. Find out how divorce will affect you and how to keep the ...
Care of the Children During Divorce
Caring for your children during the divorce process. Advice on talking to your children, maintaining good family relationships, practical and financial concerns....
Changed Your Mind About a Divorce?
If you and your spouse are going through the divorce process and decide to give your marriage another go, here's what you should do and how to ensure you're not too late!...
Changing Insurance Policies Following Divorce
This article looks at the reasons behind changing or cancelling insurance and what to do in the event of divorce...
Changing Your Documentation
How changing your documentation which can also include changing your name can ensure that any joint financial agreements can be closed down providing there is no debt on them and how this can be a sym...
Changing Your Will
If you're going through divorce, you MUST change your will. This checklist will help you to ensure you've thought of everything....
Citizens Advice and Law Centres
Getting free, impartial advice on your divorce or separation from the Citizens Advice Bureau or local Law Centre. Services and information they supply, including free Mediation sessions....
Confronting Your Financial Problems
Is your marriage suffering because of money worries? Are you keeping the true extent of the problem from your spouse? Don't know where to turn? Find out how to keep your marriage and sort out your mon...
Considering Therapy Following a Divorce
Deciding to divorce, going through a divorce and flourishing after a divorce are all emotionally trying experiences. This article discusses how attending therapy may help individuals, couples and fam...
Controlling Your Anger after Divorce
After the trauma of a divorce, and while you try to come to terms with life without your ex, you can find yourself trying to cope with intense feelings of anger. Here are some coping strategies and ti...
Creating a Divorce Budget
How to draw up a budget and balance sheet for yourself and to present to divorce courts. Also advice on accounting and self-auditing....
Creating a Post-Divorce Budget
How to draw up a budget for after your divorce. What to include, how to structure it and advice on accounting and self-auditing....
Creating a Work - Life Balance
How it’s imperative to make time for your spouse if you have a demanding career and how you can go about doing that. The consequences of what might happen if you don’t get the balance right....
Dealing With Conflicts in a Marriage
How you should deal with conflicts in a marriage. Ways in which you should behave towards your spouse and situations to avoid if you don’t want full scale arguments to break out....
Dealing with Depression After a Divorce
Depression almost inevitably follows divorce. For most people it will pass quickly, but for some it becomes difficult to shake....
Dealing With Your Lawyer
Practical tips on dealing with your lawyer to ensure that you don't get landed with a huge bill at the end of your divorce, as well as fixed fees, court fees and hourly rates explained....
Deeds of Separation and Judicial Separations
If you're considering separating from your spouse but for financial or religious reasons don't want to divorce, a judicial separation may be right for you. Find out more here....
Discussing Divorce With Your Children
Advice on how to communicate with a child about divorce. The process can be made easier and less painful by talking honestly and listening carefully to your child....
Discussing Divorce with Your Parents
Discussing divorce with your parents can be a sticky conversation. This article discusses how to effectively break the news, such as by selecting an appropriate setting, stating only the facts, liste...
Discussing Divorce With Your Spouse
Advice on how to communicate with your partner about divorce. Talking honestly as a couple. Getting help from a relationship counsellor. Talking about practical and legal issues....
Discussing Divorce With Your Teenager
Advice on how to communicate with a teenager about divorce. The process can be made easier and less painful by talking honestly and openly with your child....
Dividing Your Assets Before Divorce
If you're considering divorce, you may wonder how you and your spouse are going to divide your assets between you. This article provides some tips on what to do about the family home, your sentimental...
Divorce and Your Finances: How to Preserve Your Position
Are you worried about losing everything in your divorce? Find out how best to preserve your assets and financial situation for the future, here....
DIY Divorce: Is it Right for You?
Thinking of doing your divorce yourself rather than using a lawyer? Or are you considering using a low-cost DIY divorce service? Don't do anything until you've read this....
Effective Communication: How to Deal With Your Ex During Divorce
If you're having trouble remaining calm when you speak to your ex, or if you've got something you need to say but are worried about how to say it, here are some tips to help you communicate with your ...
Emotional Implications for Men
How men and women can experience many different emotions following a divorce and how it’s men who have children where the children stay and live with their mother who tend to fare most poorly....
Emotional Implications for Women
The emotional impacts of divorce and how to approach them. Emotional stages of divorce. Talking to your partner. Talking to children....
Emotional Scams: Beware!
Have you met your dream lover on the Internet? Make sure you're not being scammed. Read more here....
Emotional Support for the Children
We take a look at some ways in which to offer emotional support to children in the event of a marriage break up...
Escaping Abusive Relationships
What legal protection and practical support is available to women experiencing abuse. What counts as abuse. Emotional advice....
External Factors That Affect the Divorce Rate
Statistically, people are more likely to divorce after Christmas or during a recession. This set of facts and figures shows that external pressures may be the cause of marital problems - which means t...
Feelings of Grief After a Divorce
You will feel a whole range of emotions during and after your divorce. One of the most perplexing feelings is grief. Here's how to recognise it and how to cope with this natural part of the healing pr...
Financial Help for People on Low Incomes
What types of financial assistance are available, including legal aid, benefits and tax credits, and emergency funding....
Financial Implications of Divorce
The financial implications of divorce, including legal costs, property, money and other assets, pensions, debts and tax....
Finding a New Home after Divorce
When a couple decides to divorce, one of them usually must find a new home. There are three key factors in finding a new home: finances, location and space....
Finding Your Confidence After Divorce
If you're recently divorced, you may be feeling a sense of loss, suffering from low confidence and struggling with your new place in the world. Here are some fantastic ways to regain your sense of sel...
Get Your Marriage Out of a Rut
Reasons why marriage can sometimes get into a rut and things you can do to make them more interesting again....
Getting Help with Childcare Costs
Advice on getting help with child care during a divorce. Includes child minders, nurseries, benefits and tax credits available, and contacting the CSA....
Getting Help with Property
How it’s important to try to gain an understanding of what options you might have in terms of where you are going to live, once you get divorced. How these issues are faced by home owners as well as t...
High Profile Divorce Settlements
How legal precedents for divorce settlements have changed over the years and examples of high profile, high value settlements....
Hiring a Private Investigator
What a private investigator does and why you would hire one to assist you when divorcing....
Hiring a Solicitor
Advice on hiring a solicitor to assist or represent you in your divorce....
Infidelity: Forgiving Your Spouse
How infidelity can be overcome if both parties are determined to try to save their marriage for the right reasons and some of the issues you’ll need to tackle to ensure your marriage survives and gets...
Introducing New Partners to Your Kids
How good communication, patience and the continual re-inforcement of your love for your children and how much you need them are key to enabling you to make the introduction of your new partner to them...
Is Divorce the Only Answer?
Advice on alternatives to divorce, including relationship counselling, trial separations, separation agreements and judicial separations....
Jealousy in Your Marriage and How to Put it Right
Is your partner insanely jealous and possessive of you? Do you feel controlled? Are you not allowed to have your own friends? Find out why your partner acts like this here....
Legal Assistance in Your Divorce
What solicitors provide, how to deal with them and keep your costs down. Detailed information on types and availability of legal aid. Also on barristers....
Living Together Agreements
If you're a divorcee who's ready to take a new relationship to the next level, you may decide to move in together. A living together agreement can help you to decide responsibilities and ownership of ...
Loneliness in Your Marriage: Reconnect With Your Spouse
Are you desperately lonely in your marriage? Read our top tips on how to become close to your spouse again here....
Making New Friends Following a Divorce
Going through a divorce often means losing a few friends. This article discusses how individuals affected by divorce can make some new friends, and cherish their old friends....
Marital and Non-marital Assets
If you had assets that you brought into your marriage, and want to know whether or not you will be able to get them back after a divorce, read this....
Marriage Guidance Counselling
If you're considering marriage guidance counselling, here's what to expect and how it could help you....
Marriage Through the Ages
A look at how the role of men and women in a marriage has changed over time....
Moving On, But Can an Ex Claim?
Without a clean break order, can an ex-wife make a claim on her former husband's new property, even if he owns it with someone else?...
Occupation Orders and What They Mean
Do you need someone out of your house? Find out how to get a court order that enables you to do this and allows you to remain at home....
Parental Alienation Syndrome
Parental Alienation Syndrome is a horrible tactic to turn children against one of their parents, and sadly common in nasty divorces....
Partner in Prison: Should You Wait?
Is your loved one inside? Are you wondering whether to wait? What you're going through is not unusual - learn to understand your feelings here....
Paying Child Support
Advice on maintenance support for children of a divorcing couple. Includes options on coming to an agreement, typical amounts paid and dealing with the CSA....
Paying Joint Debts
How it is important to prevent further spending on joint credit agreements if you intend to divorce. How you can be considered solely liable for a joint debt if the other party cannot be found....
Pros and Cons of a Trial Separation
The pros and cons of trial separations and how they might be perceived differently by different people. How they can, in some cases, lead to a resolution in marital breakdown which can lead to a coupl...
Protecting Your Assets in a New Relationship
How it’s important to protect your own assets when embarking upon a new relationship after divorce. How legal agreements should be drawn up if you decide to live together if you don’t want to put your...
Questionnaire: Is Your Spouse Really the Problem?
If you're experiencing difficulties in your marriage, it's very easy to blame the other person. Find out here whether they're really to blame, or whether the problems started elsewhere....
Relationship Guidance and Counselling
Advice on types of relationship guidance and counselling offered for couples experiencing difficulties or going through separation or divorce....
Remaining Friends After a Divorce
Remaining friends with a partner throughout and after a divorce can be hard. This article offers advice on how to stay mature, patient and flexible throughout in order to pave the way for a friendshi...
Restore Your Relationship
Are you struggling to keep the intimacy and excitement alive in your marriage? Find out here how you can take steps to ensure you get to know each other better, restore your marriage and have fun at t...
Separation Agreements Vs. Divorce
Separation Agreements are not the same as divorcing but can be used on their own or as a pre-curser to a divorce at a later stage. Find out more here....
Settlement
How reaching an agreed financial settlement is the thing that stops most divorces from being concluded quickly. How many aspects must be taken into account when it comes to assets and how legal advice...
Short-Term Divorce Plan
Short term steps and what to plan for when divorcing. Advice on communicating with your partner, what to do about property, assets, pensions, debts, taxes and children....
Should You Stay in the Marriage or Leave?
Advice on whether to break up with your partner or not. Tips on talking about it, seeking help, the legal process and emotional issues....
Starting a New Relationship
How it is important to let go of your emotions following a divorce and how to get over that period first before even thinking about a new relationship. The healing process and learning how to enjoy li...
Staying Together for Financial Reasons
How would you fare financially if you split from your spouse? Is that the real reason you are staying? Find out how to weigh up your options here....
Staying Together for the Sake of the Children
If you're thinking of staying together for your children's sake, what kind of example are you setting them for later life? Find out more here....
Staying Together Out of Fear
Are you stuck in your marriage, unable to leave because of fear? Or are you so afraid of divorce that you can't see how unhappy you are in your relationship? Find out how to become 'unstuck' here....
Step-By-Step Guide to Divorce
How the whole legal process of getting divorced is actually very simple. Things like children, financial issues and the division of assets, whether or not you have proper grounds for a divorce or whet...
Talking to Your Mortgage Lender About Your Divorce
It might feel scary having to tell your mortgage lender that you are getting divorced, but mortgage companies are getting better at accommodating people who are divorcing and finding products to suit ...
Telling Your Partner About an Affair
If you've had an affair, it can be very difficult to know how your spouse will react if you come clean, but it depends on what you want to achieve. Find out more about the pros and cons of telling you...
The Blame Game: Dealing With Critical Relatives
Are your relatives interfering in your divorce or separation? Before you blow a fuse, take time to consider whether there's a hidden message in their criticism....
The Court Process
Description of the divorce process at court, including sections on child orders and financial disputes....
The Family Home
How property is dealt with in divorce proceedings. Coming to a decision as a couple, what factors a court considers, typical outcomes and other related issues....
The Principles of Safe Dating
It’s a scary thing, getting back into the dating scene, but these suggestions can at least ensure you enjoy safe dating....
Types of Application
A description of the different forms and documents than need to be submitted as part of the divorce process....
Unbearable In-laws: How to Survive Them
Are you struggling with your in laws? Read our top tips for how to survive (and avoid) falling out with your spouse over them....
Using Collaborative Family Law in Your Divorce
How collaborative family law has helped to make the process of divorce more civilised, quicker and cheaper too. How it aims to enable both parties in a divorce to resolve their differences amicably wi...
Welfare Benefits
Information on the various benefits and tax credits available to a divorcee, for themselves and their children....
What a Separation Agreement Covers
If you're in the process of separating from your spouse, you may be considering making a separation agreement or deed of separation. Here's what you and your spouse will need to decide when making the...
What is a Commitment?
When we talk about commitment, the basic issue we mean is trust - and that takes time....
What is a 'Non-Molestation Order?'
Is your ex causing trouble in your life or constantly hassling you? Find out how you can get a court order to prevent this from happening....
What is a Typical Visitation Award?
How do you establish realistic visitation rights for a baby?...
What is Family Court?
Family court isn’t about divorce, but rather discovering the best interests of children in divorce and other situations....
What to Do with the Family Home?
There are a few options which you need to consider when deciding what happens to the family home once you have decided to divorce. How your finances, any children you may have and your willingness to ...
What Will Happen to Your Pension?
How pensions can be almost as valuable (and sometimes more so) than the matrimonial home in determining the division of financial assets upon divorce. The different ways in which pensions can be used ...
What You Need to Know About Pre-nuptial Agreements
Are you divorced and considering remarriage? Pre-nuptial agreements are now recognised in English law and could ensure that you protect your assets in the event of a divorce. Find out more here....
When Both You and Your New Partner Have Kids
It’s doubly difficult when you and your new partner both have kids, but with some thought, it’s a workable juggling act....
When to Start a New Relationship
It takes a while after divorce before you’re ready to enter a new relationship - these tips will help....
When You Want to Marry Again
Marrying again after being divorced is a major step, and needs a lot of consideration....
Who Gets Custody?
Deciding children’s residency (custody) in a divorce. What options are open to a couple, what is best decided between them, and how the court process works....
Who Stays and Who Goes from the Matrimonial Home?
If you and your spouse have decided to divorce, one of the biggest decisions you will make is what happens to your home. Here are some considerations for deciding who stays and who goes....
Women and Divorce: Knowing Your Rights
Are you considering divorcing your spouse? Find out what you're entitled to and how best to approach your divorce here....