Anyone applied for final order without doing a consent order?

[Jeany1967]

Has anyone done this?

Ex and I are amicable and have agreed on how to split everything. I have no worries about there being issues in the future and feel paying a solicitor £2k (figures I've seen online) is a total waste of money for them to draft one?

Can you actually do this or do you HAVE to do a consent order?

Has anyone just not done it and applied for the final order? Anyone regretted doing it this way? Or happy to not have wasted money?

Any advice is appreciated.

My final order was done before the financial order and it didn't cause any issues as I was just being bought out of my share of the house and it was in both names although it has all gone through now. The issue with not having a financial/consent order is that I think your ex can claim at any point so you may have moved on and met someone else and they can put a claim in so its probably best to finalise everything.

Your divorce isn't technically complete until you've done the financial order.

Even if you are amicable now, throw in a new partner or two, future marriages, a lottery win or inheritance, life changing injury etc - that amicable relationship can go up in a puff of smoke if one of your circumstances changes.

Get the financial order. Invest in finalising your divorce and protecting your financial future.

A friend of mine is just getting screwed over, years after his divorce because some things were agreed on trust at the time and never formalised.

His advice would no doubt be to pay the £2k now to save yourself a potential loss of tens of thousands in the future

If you are amicable and have agreed your financial split, an online service can draw up the consent order a lot cheaper than £2K. Wikivorce charge less than £500. I expect other online services may be cheaper still.