Simplest and cheapest way to divorce?

[SomewhereNow]

Ex and I have been separated for 2 years, we’re pretty amicable and have agreed what will happen regards the house we jointly own when it’s sold and made arrangements regarding our teen DD.

As far as I can see the best way would be to do an online divorce with a financial consent order, can anyone advise as this sounds too straightforward to be true but neither of us wants to spend any more on solicitors than is necessary.

Thanks in advance for any advice.

wikivorce website can give you loads of information Op especially about online divorce etc etc.

Online through the gov website, we are doing it currently, was £550 to apply, started second week in March we have had our decree nisi a couple of weeks already, goes to a judge in about 3 weeks.

But we have agreed everything from childcare, house, payments between ourselves

Agree do the divorce online defo the cheapest way, think the consent order is a bit more tricky, but is it just the house that needs to be split? If everything is agreed and you don’t believe H would mess around not sure you’d need to do that even. To give you a guide my solicitor has quoted £600+vat for the consent order, if all details agreed so not cheap!

Do you actually need a financial consent order if you agree to everything, especially if I'm getting most the assets outright.

I applied online myself a couple of weeks ago. The gov uk website says that you have to engage a solicitor to draw up the financial consent order.

We have agreed details of the financial split. A local firm of solicitors has quoted me £700 plus vat plus £50 court fee to draw up the financial consent order.

Read wikivorce, do the divorce yourself, and get a solicitor to draw up the consent order - I think I paid about £250 2 years ago to a local firm. I didn't let them do any correspondence, they only prepared the document.

You absolutely should spend the money to get a financial consent order. Without one, either one of you can claim money from the other at any point in the future. You may believe right now that neither would, but you never know what the future holds. Unexpected illness for one party, a future partner who encourages one of you that you were hard done by and should have more, an unexpected windfall....whatever, you both need to secure the certainty of a consent order.

You definitely need a consent order. If one of you comes into money after divorcing - the famous example is a man who won the lottery - then the other can claim off you.

Also when using a solicitor you don't need to formally engage one you can just use one to give you advice and do the specific piece(s) of work you need. This keeps costs down a lot. However make sure you research and understand exactly what you need.