Putting temporary brakes on divorce

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Both H and I have accepted our 30 year marriage is over. He applied for divorce in March which I am ok about and it's all reasonably amicable.

2 late teen DC. The house is being sold which will hopefully complete September time.

However we have had several traumatic life events over the last few years and frankly I have neither the strength or energy to cutrently deal with divorce process. I suspect H feels the same.
We both agree it needs to happen at some point but right now I just can't face it.

Is there any reason why we shouldn't just agree the split of house sale proceeds between us, go our separate ways and then deal with the divorce say in a year's time?

We are both an a similar income with similar pensions so neither of us stands to win or lose from the split.

You can do this but the big warning against this is in a legal sense I believe you still have a claim, and that could be to losses and gains. So if you won the lottery a week after your divorce but you have not split your finances and have a clean break order then he could make a claim. I am not sure if the same is true if he suddenly went into debt.

I think what I am saying is it is physically possible to do, but not advisable without understanding the true risks that exist.

I do understand the risks and on balance think it's riskier if we plough ahead now rather than pause to regroup. Neither of us are currently in the right frame of mind to make sensible decisions.

I also feel moving house is stressful enough (especially as I don't even know where I'm going yet) without the added pressure of pushing a divorce through at the same time.