The knowledge and experience of your lawyer can make all the difference between a fair, equitable and reasonable divorce and you being shafted financially, thrust into bleak penury and condemned to a difficult life after divorce.
Managing your divorce is going to be one of the most difficult tasks in your life. What you want, what you need and what you eventually settle for are, in most cases going to be three rather different things.
Back in the Golden Age before Gordon Brown aspired to greatness, a divorcing couple usually had some assets to share after their divorce. Nowadays it's more likely to be a fight to the death about the ownership of debt.
When you go to a lawyer or accountant for advice about your divorce you will get a bill based on the length of time they spend with you. Advice from an Independent Financial Adviser (IFA) can be paid for in two different ways,