Anyone have experience with the online divorce websites?

[Louise000000]

Seeing here that I could do an online divorce where they send you all the paperwork and you send it back and it takes up to 10 weeks. If we had already agreed an arrangement for house (only asset) and children, would this be straight forward enough?
My sister in law has done it easily enough but no assets or kids were involved

Don't use an online divorce company just do it yourself through the courts you can do it online through the courts.

Does this mean no lawyers have to be involved?

I'm doing mine online through the courts.

Just google divorce gov and go on the official government website. You can apply yourself online. It costs £550.

You might want to involve solicitor in the financial agreement stage.

You can download the forms from the government website. The divorce bit is very simple and easy to do yourself.

The issue maybe the financials - I got solicitor involved for that to draft the document we both signed.

Are you sure you are getting a fair deal?

The financial consent order actually has to be drawn up by a solicitor.

I would only go down this route if everything is very straightforward and the courts are very likely to sign off your consent order. Online divorce applications don't get allocated to a court near you, they just get allocated. My own divorce was allocated 300 miles away and the judge kicked out the consent order, twice, without a hearing. My local solicitor was sure it would have been passed first time locally.

We had to request that it be moved to a court near to home so that we could attend and explain our position.

It was a PITA and added months onto a stressful situation.

If I had my time again I would pay a local solicitor from the outset.

I used divorce-online.co.uk. They were absolutely brilliant. I know you can do it yourself but as a busy working mum I just wanted that extra little bit of help with checking my paperwork and not having to remember to do the next stage by myself! I had quite a basic package but they do financial agreements and things too. I didn’t need those, I just got left with all the debt 😉 I paid around £750 in total. They gave as much help as I needed, phoned them lots of times. They sent paperwork twice to Ex as he ignored first lot, no extra charge, explained everything really well.

Ah reading the above maybe they don’t do financial agreements, you’d need to check but they were very helpful overall.

Hi OP there's a website called wikivorce which is very good and explains things really clearly and gives links to the forms to fill in etc.

Forgive me if you know this but just to explain the process (because I had no clue till I did it) - there are two stages to divorce decree nisi (basically a judge agreeing your grounds for divorce are justified) and decree absolute which makes it all official.

To get to decree nisi on your own without a solicitor is easy. I found the online process really simple to follow. You have to choose what your grounds for divorce are and follow the guidance to fill it all in. Then the other person has to sign to say it's true (can cause tension) and then a judge has to agree it.

Once you have yr nisi you have to wait 6 weeks and you can apply for a decree absolute. While this is going on you need to get a financial order drawn up. It is very advisable you get a solicitor to draft this for you (reduces the likelihood of it being rejected) also makes sure there's no wiggle room / things you haven't thought of). To be honest I've no idea how you'd go about drafting it yourself.

I like you had just agreed it all with the no real fighting. We emailed a solicitor and he wrote it up and we both signed it. It cost me £700 approx for that but worth every penny. The solicitor will only work on the "behalf" of the person who hires them (make sure its you!!) they can't give advice to the other party. If you're both happy with your arrangement then that should'nt be an issue.
Hope that helps OP good luck with it x

I'd just do it yourself rather than use a divorce website, as you're paying them for what you can do. I did my own as we had bugger all and were reasonably amicable.

Since you have some assets, it might be worth getting a solicitor's opinion - I'd look for one that offers a free initial session. But then do it largely yourself.

Did mine myself only needed ExH to get a solicitor to remove him from the registry deeds etc

I think you actually need a solicitor to draft the financial consent order per the gov.uk website.

Mine was rejected twice despite it being drafted by a solicitor.