Consent order - is this likely to be approved

[Thekormachameleon]

We’ve been divorced for over 2 years, house sale going through and division of sale agreed between us in writing. Have not used solicitors yet and don’t intent to as both just want a clean break and to walk away with what we have. No savings etc to right home about so not much in the pot

we have agreed a 65/35% split between us - does anyone know if this split and no other division of assets is likely to be accepted by the court

It depends on how long you were married. Most couples pension share. A judge has to sign it off and it will depend if the quote large discrepancy between the shares can be justified.

Mine was an 80:20 split. Another friend had a similar split. A judge may want to question if you know what you’re doing and just check but if it’s all amicable and done on a logical basis, there’s no reason why they won’t sign it off.

If both parties are in agreement, it's likely the judge will sign it off. Do either of you have a pension?

20 years, only one of us has a small pension, the other is self employed and won’t want too much investigation of their real earnings

This is reassuring thank you

It might get rejected first time if the judge questions why one person (In my case me) isn't going for a claim on the other persons pension (exH). Once I had explained why (and this is why I'm glad we had a solicitor to put the reason into legal-speak) it went through.

You don't HAVE to have two solicitors btw - I engaged one and was clear from the start that my ex and I had discussed everything and knew what we wanted to do and that everything she told me would be shared with him anyway. She did advise against it and obv couldn't represent both of us but it worked really well - you do have to be on good terms with your ex though.

When the solicitor had put the reasons for divorce into legal speak I phoned him to warn it sounded horrendous and to be prepared. He thanked me afterwards and said that if I hadn't told him he would have been really upset after reading them!.

Mine was rejected the first time & my ex had to write in & say he was happy with the split being in my favour (we based it on what I had before we met). Solicitor thought we might have to meet the judge but the letter sorted it!