Consent order, money agreed, what now?

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Hi there,

We have eventually agreed a split of assets and exH has mortgage in place with amount agreed to give to me. All amicable.

Just need help with consent order completion and sending off. No form E needed.

Has anyone used an online service for this? I’m struggling what to do next, as there are no solicitors involved yet.

I’d be hugely grateful for any advice x

Hi have a look on wikivorce pretty sure they offer a fixed price service which has loads og
good reviews

@Rose7728 I’ve emailed them. Thank you so much

I would strongly recommend you pay £20 for the AdviceNow guides to how to do a financial settlement yourself. They are brilliant. Worth the £2O
They not only define process, and ensure that your consent order will meet the 10 or so criteria the court use for “fair” division, they also point out the parts that you don’t need solicitor for, may want a solicitor for and should have solicitor for PLUS there are links to a web page where solicitors list themselves as being prepared to just do the very specific parts you want.
search under AdviceNow guides and look for divorce financial settlement ones.
You will need your Form 81 to be completed and sent in with consent order. So make sure you’ve both done that together and agreed your happy it is full disclosure. We did use the form E between us to gather and summarise info to go into D81 , so don’t ignore it as it can be useful as framework to do D81.

whilst you can theoretically do a legal “draft” consent order yourself it is not advised. It is legal speak and it is best to get your words that you’ve agreed to be legalised by a qualified solicitor. The solicitor can then submit it and your D81 online at your Nisi ( or whatever it is now called) so it is ready to be “sealed” at the decree final . Word of caution..couple of recent threads on here saying courts lost solicitors submission or only accepting postal so do check.

I used a local solicitor to draw up the draft D81. I basically rang someone, said we’d got an agreement in out language and our D81 and just wanted her to draft it legally. She was fine with that…did it quickly. Don’t think I’d have paid less for on line solicitor. We opted that my ex would also have a brief session with a solicitor to ensure that he knew what he was signing and we could show the courts that . I’d read that sometimes courts can ask questions and delay stuff if they think the other person hasn’t taken at least some legal advice. He went through the Advice Now site and chose a solicitor from their lists. He had a 45 min session over the phone…had to send in the documents ahead of the session. He said she was very good and was happy with what he paid for (it was less than £200).

persnally I’d give a wide berth to online solicitors generally right now. I did that for my house sale and purchase at ex’s wishes and it was a mess…I’d never use online legal services ever again. Communication was awful, you had to chase everything. Despite all their fancy commitments about response times it was all lies . And that was a national big player. Never again.

our consent was sealed without any court questions or delays despite some “oddities” in what we’d agreed to (we were both retired so stuff around pensions was a little odd) .

mediate site on line also has good guides. But the AdviceNow guides you pay for are fantastic in my view.

good luck!