“Get legal advice”

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Everyone was telling me to get legal advice for financial settlement. So I went and spend £400 and basically she told me it’s 50/50 to start with. And she can’t tell me exactly or at least roughly if it will be more or less as it’s up to judge.
Well, I knew all that already! Is my solicitor just a joke or is it a normal practice?

It's not up to a judge unless you push it to one.

Assuming the solicitor had access to all the relevant details and have advised that 50/50 is a reasonable start what are you not agreeing with or what are you expecting from them?

@wobytide thank you for your reply. I was hoping to learn what proportion the assets would be divided. She basically said to me the starting point is 50/50 and then e have to look into documents.
did bring all documents I had but she didn’t actually look at them, just asked me what they are about.

Maybe I am being unreasonable I don’t know. I just felt that she didn’t say anything new to me. Also I felt pushed to apply to court and instruct her to represent me.

I'm in same situation. They just kind of leave you hanging in that limbo in order to get you to instruct them. Take a look at Wikivorce online it's full of useful info. I paid £200 for same information basically, but now it's all ground to halt because I can't afford a solicitor to progress matters and my ex is living very happily in our only asset and says he can't afford to have a pension expert sort out his pension. I just wanted to us to agree what percentage of house and pension I could have so that we could get a financial agreement and then divorce. I was advised not to get divorced until I had financial agreement because I would lose interest in martial home.