Divorce BEFORE financial/house settlement.

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This is what stbx has suggested. It doesn't seem right to me, I was anticipating doing it all in one go, divorce, me buy him out, clean break.

What's the better option? I hadn't even considered that it would be done the way he's suggested.

My solicitor advised not to finalise the divorce until the consent order has been approved. I’m at nisi stage and just waiting for the consent order to come back and then will apply for absolute

Thank you. That's what I thought. I don't know why he would suggest this.

Cos he wants to screw you over be very vigilant

My solicitor advised that a judge would not approve the decree absolute until the financial order was agreed (my decree nisi came through about 6 months before).

I agree with PP that your stbxh is up to something if he's pushing for a divorce before finances are agreed on.

Again here solicitor has advised

Nisi
Consent
Absolute

It's been a pain as I hadn't sent nisi off so consent say around for ages waiting for it to be processed!

Ok thank you. Good to know that it's not really an option, so it won't be me arguing it as such. Thank you.

I've been advised to apply for absolute before financials. If you are not pension sharing or likely to be widowed then you cant really be screwed over.

We aren't sure yet but for technical reasons we can't separate financials for 3-4 years. We might just wait but if we need to legally divorce we will leave finances open