Advice on delaying final order

[HelpAnyone]

Hi all

Final order can be applied for 26th Sept.

How can I delay my stbx from applying for it?
They are the applicant in divorce and I’m the respondent.

It is less than 4 weeks away and I want a clean break for future protection. We have nothing to divide no property no money or kids involved as relatively short marriage. Literally no joint assets.

How do I go about this and how long does it take for UK court to put a hold on final order being issued?

STBX can literally hit the final order button in 24 days!

Also for noting stbx lives in the UK. I live abroad. How do I delay it from the states?
UK courts dealing with divorce as stbx lives there so they have jurisdiction.

Why do you want to delay it?

If you want a clean break, why do you want to delay it?

@Bobbie12345678because there is no financial order in place

@DurinsBane I have been told to make sure finance matters are resolved before finalizing the divorce

Why would you want to? You want a clean break, you have no assets to divide, no children. You can be free in 24 days. I don't see a downside.

@Meadowfinch a friend of mine who got divorced said to make sure clean break financial order is in place before final order is applied for

Surely that is something to ask your solicitor to manage. Yes you want a clean break with a financial order that ends all future links and obligations

Get a consent order completed and submitted asap surely? Then if he does try to finalise, you can write this on the form as a valid reason it should be delayed.

Why is there not a final order ready to go? Yours should be extremely easy to draft.

Submit the clean break financial order ASAP. Don't listen to people telling you that you don't need one. You really do as it protects you from future claims.

Only a solicitor can draft a clean break order, but you can use a cheap online one.

If there are no assets you should be able to draft the consent order and agree it quickly. Are you both in agreement ?

what has he said about completing that part ?

And composters saying she doesn’t need one they are incorrect

without it they may be divorced but they haven’t severed financial ties - and that is important so op ex can’t come back in years and make a claim which he could in the absence of a signed consent order

I was not even aware of a consent order tbh - stbx has instigated the whole divorce.

All I want to know is how can I delay final order until finances are sorted and will it be done in time before 26 Sept ? What is process of delaying it ?????

FYI I don’t have a solicitor. STBX has arranged the divorce themselves I initially told them to carry on without me. Obviously I didn’t have the knowledge of financial order until now and now in less than 4 weeks I don’t know if it’s too late to get it arranged. It can’t be by consent as we do not talk and haven’t done so since marriage ended. We are both blocked on all platforms, I only got the papers as they posted them to me in the states and I didn’t not respond but somehow they got deemed service accepted which is fine as I don’t dispute or contest divorce I just wanted them out of my life

Also for noting stbx is very well off but I walked away wanting nothing as still don’t want anything. I don’t have assets myself and live with my family but one day I may meet someone so that why I have been told for future protection to do the clean break but I don’t know how this can be done when we have no contact as surely we both have to agree to it ?

You need to get a solicitor to draft a financial order, and you need to give your solicitor contact details for your ex in order to send it over. Seeing as your ex has initiated the divorce, they will just want to get things done, so you might need to break no contact in order to flag this to them, as that just might speed things up in terms of them receiving the clean break/signing it etc. In terms of delaying final order, you are best looking at .gov.uk sites and speaking to a solicitor.

How about pensions? You can agree a consent order quickly, but it will still involved sharing all your financial information with each other. Also the judge will have to consider whether the agreement is fair. If you agree to claim nothing at all when you will be entitled to something, the judge will need to make sure you were not coerced and agreed with all legal information with you. They need to be sure there would be no ground to complain at a later stage.

You can do both at the same time. It's okay if you finalised the financial order shortly after the final order
Just don't play the lottery during that time!

You apply for a stay. I think it’s D11 form. You should just pay for a solicitor to do it and draft a consent / clean break order if you aren’t familiar with the process so it’s done properly. But there is info online how to apply for stay. You are supposed to show evidence you’ve tried to sort finances eg a draft consent order.