Help When Representing Yourself

If you are going through a divorce, need to reach a financial settlement with your former partner or spouse or resolve arrangements for your children then we can give you legal advice and assistance on a specific task or issue whilst you continue to represent (act for) yourself in:

• direct negotiations with your former partner, spouse or their lawyer
• mediation
• arbitration
• court proceedings

We can assist you with the following tasks:

Obtaining a divorce

Reaching a Financial Settlement

Within financial proceedings as part of a divorce  there are a number of steps that are often required and we can help you with these:

• Preparing your financial statement (Form E).
• Collating and binding together your financial documents to be disclosed to your spouse voluntarily, in arbitration or court proceedings.
• Drafting a questionnaire or list of questions to your spouse and replying to those asked of you.
• Drafting a letter of instruction to an expert to value a property, business or pension and if relevant, your or your spouse’s interest in those assets.
• Identifying suitable housing particulars for you and your spouse to present in mediation, arbitration or to the court to support your financial proposals.
• Drafting your statement of evidence for you to use at a final hearing.
• Drafting or advising you upon the final order to record your agreement or the Judge’s decision.

If you are not married and wanting to separate then we can help you with:

• Making an application to the court resolve any interest in a property you or your former partner may own.
• Making a claim for financial support for dependent children
• Drafting your statement of evidence for you to use at a final hearing.

Resolving the arrangements for your children

Whether or not you are married, if you have dependent children together, then we can help you with:

• Drafting an application for a child arrangements order to clarify what time you each spend with your children, or enforcement of a child arrangements order.
• Drafting your statement of evidence for you to use at a final hearing.
  

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