Divorce help

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Hi

I have a one hour telephone appointment this week with a solicitor to ask for advice regarding divorcing my husband and financial advice.

The situation we are in is we have a home under renovation that neither of us live in. His name is on the mortgage only but my name is on the deeds. The house needs completing before being put up for sale in order for us to get our own places. Husband owns another property and is a high earner. I am not and work part time although going full time in September.

Can anyone help with a list of questions I can ask the solicitor to really utilise the hour? It is very expensive so I want to ask as much as I can!

Thank you

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I could really do with some help please

How long have you been married and are there children involved?

You will need to have a clear picture of all your assets and debts. This includes all properties, savings, pensions, credit card debts, loans etc. If you've been in whats considered a long marriage the principle will be that all of these assets are divided 50:50. I'm not sure if its not been a long marriage. If its a long marriage then the question will be whether you qualify for spousal support, and what support will be required to support children if there are any. You will be expected to make your best efforts to support yourself working full time.

So I don't have a long list of questions. Go with as much info as possible on salaries, savings, debts
and pensions and details of property ownership.

The key question will be how the new house will be treated and who will be responsible for paying for the renovation and how then the asset will be split on divorce.

Good luck OP.

Thank you for responding.

We have been married for 9 years, together for 16. One daughter. There was severe emotional and financial abuse throughout the marriage. I wasn’t included on any financial decisions, don’t have access to a joint bank account, not aware of any debts etc

Ask if you are on the deeds to the house, used to be that the mortgage offer and deeds had to be in the same names..... probably still the same now I would imagine.
Ask can you force the sale of the property as it is to access your share of the equity faster.
Def ask re pensions as already mentioned.....