Practicalities of exchanging form e without solicitor

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I’m getting stressed about how to practically manage form e exchange without a solicitor. Lots of (empty) bank accounts so loads of attachments, currently mostly separate PDFs per monthly statement and some paper documents.

Ex (applicant) loves making false accusations and I can imagine him claiming I missed things out that I actually included, leaving things out of bundles etc. He’s included things he was explicitly told not to in court before on a different matter and that was via solicitor whereas he’ll be unrepresented now.

I’m not sure it will all fit on one email. It would be easiest to put it all in a google docs folder and give him view access but he could claim things weren’t there or disappeared. Am I going to have to get it all into a single unmanageably large PDF file, probably by printing and rescanning which will reduce quality, or is there a better approach? It seems I have to post paper to court anyway so I suppose I just scan all that together but I worry it will then be too large to email.
And then I will not want to send to him too early but will be worried about it failing last minute! Not sure what the cutoff time is.
How do people usually manage this? It’s more stressful than the form itself!

Practically - it does not have to be complicated. You do not have to fit it into 1 PDF, or even 1 email. You can send several emails, attaching different documents - just be clear in the 1st email that it's 1 of 3, for e,g.

You can organise it all by type - say all Bank Accouns - X bank. Bank Accounts Y bank. Other documents. OR you can organise it by pages: pp 1-300; pp 301-600, etc.

If you have some documents that are on paper - do scan them. Otherwise you'll complicate things by having to send some on email, and some by post?

Finally - you both will have a chance to query the disclosure. So - if he says that something is missing, he'll have to raise it via Questionnaire, that he'll have to have the judge approve. If you miss a statement, or he'll say - you have an account you didn't disclose - you'll have a chance to add the missing statement; or tell him that you do not have an account at Bank Z.

Don't stress about the exact time of the disclosure. Obviously, try to send it by the deadline. But people often take extra time, and are late at times. Normally there are no penalties to it - even if one party mentions it in court - unless the delay is really significant and affects the other person's preparation for the hearing.

Thanks for replying Sashya. I really appreciate it. I decided to focus on getting all the paper together for court first as that has to be posted in time, making sure I have some kind of electronic copy, then deal with PDFs after. I’m nearly there with the paper contents, hoping they don’t need pages numbered, I’ve done a list of contents hightlighting anything extra included or to follow and why. I have it in a lever arch file with dividers but I think it goes to be scanned and presumably they’ll just bin the file itself, so now wondering if I need to change it to just treasury tags and take the dividers out and maybe put in separation header pages.
I can see this is to some extent just my anxiety going sideways instead of focussing on what I’m really stressed about including the bits I’ve not yet done and what my ex and the judge will say in court.