Financial agreements

[wizzdexter1]

I have just been looking at
www.gov.uk/money-property-when-relationship-ends/apply-for-consent-order

And the form D81 looks fairly easy to fill out however we are seeing a mediator and it looks like she is heading us towards the form E which is far more detailed and hence needing far more information which equals more costs. So far we have only had one meeting for 2 hours plus 2.5 hours admin so £475 each. After reading the above I can't help wondering why we a going down the more costly route. Ok me and my STBX don't really agree but that's because we haven't really discussed the financial split yet but I would of thought that would of happened at our first meeting (2nd meeting coming up) where it was more or less established how much was in the pot - (all the figures were submitted prior to the meeting- ) then if agreement wasn't going to be easy go down the form E route. I can't help feeling we are getting ripped off! Almost 1k in fees and I still haven't got a clue about the split
Your thoughts please thanks

Form E has the detail that informs the summary agreement that goes into the D81. It is possible to skip it if you have already reached a high degree of understanding on what your assets are and how they should be split. Maybe the mediator is sensing or hearing things that indicate one or both of you don’t have that level of understanding or agreement.

It might be their experience that people who skip this stage end up unraveling and come into conflict because of unknowns.