How the divorce process works

Divorce is a difficult, stressful and frightening time and it can also be tough for the lawyers too.  They very often have to work with people who are going through an intense personal crisis and are running scared.

 The divorce process is probably the most difficult and distressing you will ever experience in your life.  In bereavement you will have universal sympathy for your loss.  In divorce you almost certainly will not.  Divorce is divisive.

In a much to be welcomed change in family court procedures all separating or divorcing couples will soon be referred to mediation to try to settle their disputes.

The law states that "The court will only grant you a divorce if a judge agrees that your marriage is at an end."  The legal term for this is 'irretrievably broken down'.  Below are the five reasons which you can use to claim that your marriage is beyond repair.

The moment you decide (or your spouse decides for you) that your marriage is at an end and the divorce process is about to begin the stress levels will ramp up rapidly for both of you.  All the emotions of guilt, fear, hurt and anger threaten to engulf you. 

The process of divorce is not a simple one.  Even the most straightforward divorce requires a very considerable amount of paperwork with lots of quaint legal phrases designed more to obscure than explain their meaning.

Living together is not the same as being married, you avoid the possibility of divorce but your financial rights within the relationship are very different.

The divorce process is always going to be painful.  Many couples find it all too easy to make difficulties for each other and to deny the reality of their situation.  Here is some divorce advice to help make the divorce process and the change to a life after divorce just a little bit better.