Cheapest legitimate divorce

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Hi there.

Looking to divorce ex husband. We have been separated for about 5 years and had no reason to get it done as neither party looking to remarry and things amicable, we get on, co parent etc. No messy financial stuff to sort. Quickie Dirvorce want £199. Is this legitimate? Can't work out if they are offering a proper process or if it's a bit of a scam.

Thanks for reading.

We'd also been separated over 2 years. Used that as a reason.

People are throwing you off with complexities you don't have.

Your situation sounds similar. Fill in the form, pat the court fee. Get dh to sign when he gets them. Boom, you're done.

Go to link ADVICE NOW. As signposted by MN in header of divorce board. Download their financial diy settlement guide, it’s £22 and massively worth while.
the petitotionndoesn5cneed any solicitor work- do it yourself. Cost about £550 but may have gone up last year

then use ADVICENOW for guides on fincnaicl settlement. They tell you what you must have solicitor for, what you might, and what you don’t. They are a charity run in England/wales to make law easy for everyone - very legit. They even have a list of solicitors that will just do specific jobs you want .

the quickie divorce won’t cover financial settlement. It’s probably filling in petition which you DONT need a solicitor for so sav3 your money

we did quick, amicable and used solicitor just for a couple of things using ADVICENOW guides. The total costs were £1200 including court cost. It included solicitor writing the legal worded draft consent order form our layman version, and advice for ex from a seperate solicitor so we coul£cahow courts we’d both had legal advice. That was about it.

Thanks for the Advice Now info @Whiteroomjoy. I just went to their site and you can download the guides for free, only have to pay for printed copies. There's also a basic guide to divorce and another on pensions after divorce. All look very useful.

The printed guid3s used to have some additional info …could’ve wrong but I used in 2021 so no5 that long ago

You don't need a reason to get divorced under the new system.

I'll check out the guides, thanks

You need to produce your Absolute if you are getting married again.

Rules & procedure has changed since 2021.
That is really cool if OP & stbX can just click the 'No Fin Order' box required box in form D8.

Advicenow front page has a link to "we are writing a new guide to divorce" survey, please take our survey: that link is broken.

Advicenow may be giving the < 2022 advice, they never seem to mention the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020. Not filling me with confidence.

Belated thanks @monsterradeliciosa and @PritiPatelsMaker

My divorce was finalised a month ago under the new "no fault" system. You can treat the divorce and finances as separate things if you wish. Divorce itself is super simple and literally is just clicking a button online to apply, you pay the 593 court fees and then that's it, really.
The problem with not doing the financial order is the future claiming and not having a clean break, so you'd be naive to not do a financial consent order. I did this during the 20 week "reflection period" of my divorce, so it was ready to be submitted to the court by my solicitor as soon as we had the conditional order.
The financial order was approved within a fortnight and we were divorced 6 weeks after the conditional was granted.
All in, with solicitor fees including my exH seeing a solicitor so the court knew we had both taken legal advice (more likely to have a financial order rejected if a judge can't see both parties have had advice), it cost us about £1800.