Financial Questionnaire (Divorce) question re evidence

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I'm wondering if anyone can help. My husband has asked for a number of documentary evidence for his questionnaire.

1. 3 separate valuations of my wedding ring from reputable jewellers
2. documentary evidence of the loan for my solicitors fees from my parents.

my questions are:

1. Ive no issue with providing valuations but 3 separate jewellers prepared to value my wedding ring where I live locally is hard. I can probably find 2 at a push - we don't live in a big town, or near one. Do I really need to be travelling for over a hour each way for this or can I use online ones too?

2. My parents and I have agreed they will pay the solicitors fees and I will pay them back. Obviously we don't know what they will actually end up agreeing. What 'evidence' of this do we actually need?

Thanks in advance for any help. I'm working on very tight timelines as he keeps submitting this paperwork the day before my responses are due!

You only have to answer if the Court orders it, and the Court can direct a more reasonable means of valuation.

Your family can provide a witness statement about the agreement and bank statements to show what they have advanced so far.

Super helpful, thanks.

Unless your wedding ring is super valuable it won’t be taken into account anyway as the value of 2nd hand jewellery is negligible. My ex wanted valuations of all my jewellery. I refused as - like you, it wasn’t easy to get the valuations in the first place; it wasn’t court ordered and he bought most of the jewellery anyway so knew what it cost!

Jewellery is usual a gift rather than a marital asset...

yes, I was rather shocked but its filled with lots of quite petty things like this.... not entirely unexpected but just trying to complete as much as I can.

My parents loaned me money to cover solicitor's fees. I downloaded a form from the internet and we all signed it and sent it to his solicitor. It counted as a debt and actually made me look even more hard up, so I have no idea why he insisted on at. The only people who could use it punitively against me were my parents...

If it gets to court they won't give a monkeys about the cost of the wedding ring unless you're walking around with £15 grand on your hand...

Thats not really true some second hand jewellery is worth more then second hand cars and all cars are normally taken into account of in settlements.

Aka i once had a case were party A wanted the second hand car value be part of the settlement (only worth £3000) but wanted their 'gift' jewellery worth far more then the car be excluded because it was apprantly not the same....

Judgement was jewellery was to be sold or 50% of value paid to party B be it cash or taken from other assists.

But it was a sizeable collection including some expesive pieces valued above 1k each.

To OP

My Solicitor did not think that borrowing from parents would make any difference. A bank loan would however carry more weight.

As for personal items the courts were only interested in those that were individually worth 500 and above.

I received the same advice as Tamatave - only individual items currently worth £500 and upwards were taken into account when we divorced which went against me as ExH stayed in the marital home and kept all its contents whereas I had to spend thousands furnishing my new place. But I do understand why they have that rule.