Legal Advice about Divorce

Quite often many couples decide to get married too soon and too young. Statistics currently show that around one in three marriages end in divorce. Divorce can be a very complicated process and solicitors are almost always required to help resolve who is entitled to what. The most important factors of a divorce are the financial provisions, child care arrangements and visitation rights. The process can sometime turn into a bitter contest between the ex-couple, with each demanding more, claims can be rejected and proceeding can take even longer. We will now look into what is required and what kind of legal advice is available to those seeking divorce.

The Application of Divorce

If a member of a relationship feels they cannot continue with their marriage they have the opportunity to submit an application of divorce to the court so that the marriage can be dissolved. Once this has gone through the disputing couple will need to prove to the court that their marriage has broken down and cannot be fixed. There are four main areas where this can be proven:

• If adultery has been committed and it can be proven that either or both members of the relationship have had intimate relationships with another person, then it is possible to get a divorce.

• If an individual has used unreasonable behaviour which was intolerable and unreasonable to the extent that their partner cannot stay with them.

• If an individual deserts their partner without consent. For this to be a reason for divorce the couple must not have been living together for 2 years and the desertion must not have been consented. Also if it the individual who left to never intended to be with their partner ever again.

• If the couple have been separated for 2 - 5 years and if they can prove they have not been living together for 2 years or more.

The Divorce Process

Once the reasons for divorce are passed by the court, proceedings can begin. Here is step by step list of how a divorce process will function:

• First you will need to file the petition, this is a request to court for the grant of divorce and is can be applied for by one or both of the disputing couple.

• Then the service of petition, where the court checks out all relevant documentation and once they are satisfied they will issues the divorce petition the other half.

• The acknowledgment service of the petition comes next. This is when the respondent who received the petition for divorce will return their completed form to court within the seven day time frame. This response needs to detail whether or not they wish to dispute the divorce proceedings.

• Next you will need to confirm the facts of the petition by swearing an oath confirming the acts in the petition to be the honest truth.

• Finally the pronouncement of Decree Nisi, which is where the court will set a date for the divorce to be announced.


Divorce can sometimes become over complicated and drawn out if any disputes about the divorce arise. This is where having helpful legal advice from a solicitor would be useful and would ensure that the proceedings go as smoothly as possible.

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