What order do you do these in?

[MissyTB]

What should happen first?

The contracts signing on the house sale or the consent order being signed or the divorce being finalised?

What order are these three things normally completed in and why?

1. Consent order signed
2. Consent order approved
3. Decree Absolute
4. Exchange on sale.

The risk of committing to the sale earlier is that if one party changes their mind before the order is sealed you have committed to sell with no guarantee you will get funds for your purchase. So either you are homeless, or you break the sale contract and get sued to buggery.

Often the decree Absolute can safely be obtained before the consent order is finalised but it depends on all the facts.

What if after signing the consent order and decree absolute, he decides to not want to sell the house? I cannot stay living with him but can't afford to move out without 50% of this house

Then you go to court to enforce the order for sale.

How time will that take?

I fear I will lose my buyer as they have sold theirs

I'm only asking for 50% of the house and nothing else to try to make him realise I'm not being unfair or greedy

We both work and earn a similar amount

Although my money is "family money" and his money is his

I have one car

He has 5

You don't even have a deal yet? That really is putting the cart before the horse.

Have you seen a solicitor? I think you are going to have to resign yourself to losing this sale. Get a proper deal, get a consent order lodged, then get on with selling.

The deal is 50% of the house

My solicitor is drawing up the consent order at the moment

Oh that's not so bad then. Put a rocket up the solicitor and cross your fingers.

It takes 8 weeks for the consent order to come through after the nisi has been granted apparently

That sounds like a long time

I agree with Mrs. You may loose the sale, but really important to get the consent order.
Why do you care what he thinks? You need to protect yourself, your capital & any DC you may have.