I am in this process OP. We know exactly what we want to do, we're satisfied it's fair, we have worked it all out. Except for the parts about which forms in what sequence....
There's the initial form, D8, which is what you filed. Mine completes mid June 2023.
When we get past D8 cooling off period, we have to file form D84.
D84 is the actual form to ask for divorce in principle.
While D84 is being processed, we can prepare form D81. This one requires an estimate of how much of our house value in ££ and pension values etc.... annoying since we each want 50% and we don't know the value because we want to finalise divorce before sale. We want consent/financial/whatever order to state we both keep 50%. Since it doesn't get filed until the cooling off period is done, we will probably not ask for the pension values until start June, too.
Sometime (6 weeks?) after we file D81 with £53 fee, we can then apply for final order (with some other D8xxx form, I guess).
This is also how I'm confused. The rotten forms themselves have typos & other weird statements. Like form D84 says "11. Have you read the application application for divorce/dissolution/ (judicial) separation?" besides the double-noun-speak, there's literally no instructions to help me answer that question, which application, do they mean form 8 that we jointly wrote & submitted?
Meanwhile, form 81 has a title. The title is "Statement of information for a consent order in relation to a financial remedy" : so that sounds like an application for The consent Order, right? What else is form 81? Meanwhile, Form 81 also has Question "7. How was the proposed consent order, attached to this form, reached?" ... that means Form 81 is NOT the application for a consent order. Form 81 is Something Else with a "consent order" to be attached to it.
Or it's another typo. Like "application application".
There are literally no up to date DIY guides on Amazon how to do divorce under the new No-Fault rules.
I truly hate Legalese.