Online Divorce & Clear Break Timeline

[C4smoking]

15 Jan 2022 - Petition Submitted (application)
29 Jan 2022 - Application Accepted and send
29 Jan 2022 - Letter send out to Respondent
04 Feb 2022 - Letter received + AOS
04 Feb 2022 - Respondent Response Submitted
04 Feb 2022 - Petitioner apply for Decree Nisi
21 Feb 2022 - When your Decree Nisi Announce
10 Mar 2022 - Decree Nisi announce
25 Apr 2022 - Apply Decree Absolute

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Clean Break Order - Consent Order
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21-03-2022 - Signed by both parties
21-03-2022 - Submitted to court

02-04-2022 - Approved from Court

Total Cost

Divorce : £593

Clean Break order : £179 Draft
Court fee : £53

Yep, mine was not that different last year. Submitted early April and absolute with consent order sealed end June.
It did cost us around £1600 in total for both of us…we had solicitor do the draft consent for us and it was a wee bit complicated to get into writing. But that was both our costs inc court fees,

In some ways I was shocked by how simple and quick it was - almost as if too easy given mine was a 30 year marriage . The selling the family home and buying my place was MEGA stressful though…I don’t intend to ever move again 😱

I think too many people just go “must find a good solicitor” at first point of divorce conversations. Nope, you need to read all the excellent advice guides out there and just use solicitor for the specific individual talks you need
And th other trick is to park the anger and hurt if you can for a while and engage brains to work together to get out cheaply and stress lessly as possible. You can rage after. But before it only lines solicitors pckets to manage your rows and failure to compromise and be realistic. .

Omg…I was just reading on line in news that new no blame divorce is also part of another change that sees ALL divorces to take a minimum of 6 months.
So much for our quick divorces
I divorced on unreasonable behaviour grounds due to issues with DH refusing to take his medication for his long term mental illness. It was a safeguarding issue for me. To have forced us to stay togther for 6 months could have put me at risk. This is bonkers. Why have they taken this backward step?
Think I’ll post on AIBU…I had not seen this before…

@C4smoking

Total Cost

Divorce : £593

Clean Break order : £179 Draft
Court fee : £53

Congratulations on what sounds like a very efficient divorce. Can I ask where you got your clean break order please? The quotes I've had have been at least twice that! I'm happy doing majority myself but seems need a solicitor for that part.

@RingRingHello

I asked a solicitor about Clean Break, they quote me £2300 + VAT way too much for me!

I found online EasyOnlineDivorce.com they help me and i got Clean Break within 2 week time they told me it will take approx 4 week.

@RingRingHello

By the way when i order the Clean Break it was £179 + Court Fee (£53)

I just checked the fee for clean break gone up to £299.

Still you can save soo much money if you compare to the traditional solicitors. Best of luck

Can I ask is the clean break order always necessary? Exh and I planned DIY divorce as all assets are split and separated over 2 years.

@CheesePlantMurderer

Is it necessary to obtain a clean break from the court?

Even married couples that have no joint assets or children together must apply to the court to end their financial ties through a clean break if they wish to prevent future financial claims.

There is no other way in England and Wales to ensure that neither party can submit a claim in the future.

Real-life Case of Nigel Page

Nigel Page separated from his wife with no joint assets. They decided to leave obtaining a clean break from the court and went their separate ways whilst sharing child custody. In 2010, Nigel won £56m on the EuroMillions.

He had been divorced for over a decade when his ex-wife claimed against his new fortune and won over £2m.

Although lottery wins are rare, improving your financial position through savings, properties, pensions, and/or inheritances for example aren’t, which can be claimed against in the future.

@CheesePlantMurderer

Can I ask is the clean break order always necessary? Exh and I planned DIY divorce as all assets are split and separated over 2 years.

There is no such thing called “ clean break order” there are financial agree,ents. If you can agree between yourselves you can get a solicitor to legalise your agreement into legal language and the court “seals” it at decree final ( or equivalent now). This is called a Consent order. If you do most of the work yourselves including financial declarations on forms E and D81 then you just pay solicior for doing the legal writing- mine charged about £800. . Out total divorce was around£1700 for both and all our fees. Best guides to what you sent to do in terms of diy fincnai al settlement are at AdviceNow web site- they have excellent guides you can download for about £20 which explain fully what to do, what you should use solicitor for, what you might want to use solicitor for and what you don’t really need solicitor for. Also read government web site for DIY divorce petsioton- you didn’t need a solicitor before the law change yesterday and you certainly do. Not now- there is literally nothing a soliton will do that you can’t press a few buttons doing. The site has all the forms like Form E and D81 and a very clear guide through the process Mediate also have excellent guides

Read up. If you can stay calm and compromise between you, and trust each other to do the legal declaration the. You can do it for u dear £2000
I’ve written a lot on other posts about the process- take a look at other recent posts to see more.

[quote C4smoking]@RingRingHello

By the way when i order the Clean Break it was £179 + Court Fee (£53)

I just checked the fee for clean break gone up to £299.

Still you can save soo much money if you compare to the traditional solicitors. Best of luck[/quote]
I don’t know what this clean break is, I went through process last year- do you mean Consent orde…or are you referring to Scotland where things may be different than England
I think it is confusing to use terms that are not the ones used by the courts. The concept of “clean break” describes a settlement that doesn’t entail any future financial ties- but isn’t the name of the documents.
Yes, a Consent order is a “clean break” process, but so are all the financial settlements that may go through court potentially. Similarly a consent order or any financial settlements types may not be clean break.

It depends on what you’re able to agree. Courts would prefer clean breaks in all cases, but it isn’t always possible for various reasons.

Do all consent orders have to be made online?
Did yours get processed via Burys St edmunds

@Samson12

Do all consent orders have to be made online? Did yours get processed via Burys St edmunds

Re do all consent orders need to be made online. I’m not sure. Under old divorce laws and the previous version of Gov website, you as petitioner applied for divorce and could see progress on divorce itself through the website. But there was no easy way of individual adding the consent to the web site themselves. My solicitor did this, they apparently have access to do more. Part of what I had to pay them for , I think it is because, unlike the divorce papers, the consent o4der part does not yet for electronic signatures so the solicitor needs to witness and scan in. I don’t know if there is a way a individual petitioner can add the documents in. Bear in mind they can’t be uploaded until after decree nisi (or whatever the new term for that is now). I guess you could try to search or ring courts for the answer, but I was happy to pay for solicitor to do this as relatively low cost, less than 1 hrs work charged. Ind, that is still around £200 😱😳

Ok, had a quick look…you can do it yourself by post…you need to check you have all documents and correct application …information looks like it is available on line to explain how to do this.