Divorce and family law

If you separate from one another as a couple. Agreements in relation to finances are often recorded in a deed of separation.

A reference to S25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 which sets out a list of criteria that a District Judge must consider when making decisions about financial cases.

Orders governing the transfer of property within divorce/associated financial remedy proceedings and/or civil partnership proceedings consequent upon the breakdown of civil partnership.

An Order of the Court preventing you from doing something in relation to a child e.g. taking a child abroad.

A contract entered into in contemplation of marriage or civil partnership, usually to regulate division of money and assets in the event of later separation or divorce/dissolution.

A contract entered into following marriage or civil partnership to regulate division of money and assets in the event of a later separation or divorce.

The person who issues divorce proceedings, now known as the Applicant.

A type of financial order made by the court which shares your pension fund.

Enabling a splitting up of pension rights in a different way to a pension share order and means that a portion of the pension is earmarked to go to the other party usually on retirement.

An Order of the Court granting you the right to occupy a property to the exclusion of your partner/co-owner of the property.