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To adjourn FDR or not?

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Nightlite · 14/08/2023 12:41

Hi all

looking for advice/experiences please…

The FDR scheduled for end of September is fast approaching. Under the Order pension reports were to be filed by the court by end of August. Unfortunately the expert whom we have instructed has states that their timeline for producing a report will be 20-25 weeks from end of July. Ex’s pension is wortj around £450k, mine is £90k. Marriage was 7 years , one child aged 6. Ex has apparently also recently applied for 50/50 shared care through court. I will be opposing this.

In the circs - is it tactically more advantageous to apply for an adjournment of the hearing given pension report will not be available or to just attend the FDR without pension report?

Note that ex’s case that he needs more than a 50/50 split on finances (despite higher earning capacity) as he has 13 year old son from previous marriage living with him, for housing purposes, and this will be reaffirmed if he should be successful in 50/50 application. Therefore it may be to his advantage to delay the FDR at this time

shoukd I apply to adjourn?
ex and I both LIP and whilst it was his job to obtain pension reports under the order, I ended up doing it instead.

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Phoenix06 · 11/07/2024 08:50

Hi @Nightlite
I can see this is an old thread but I'm checking out FDR threads as I'll be going down that road. Can I ask what happened? Hope you got a fair result.

Nightlite · 11/07/2024 14:51

Hello, it was adjourned as pension a big proportion of pot. Unfortunately it then got adjourned again due to pension report not available and now it’s been leap frogged to final hearing.

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Phoenix06 · 11/07/2024 22:06

Wishing you the best of luck with it. Sorry its gone on for so long.

Nightlite · 21/07/2024 08:02

Thankfully the judge refused to adjourn the final hearing so hopefully on track to get matters sorted before the end of the year

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Phoenix06 · 21/07/2024 21:03

Good news! Fingers crossed for you.

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