Starting a claim for a financial settlement

This is done on a Form A which is filed at the Court and a small Court fee paid. Automatically a timetable is set for those other documents to be put in place. These include a chronology of dates a statement of these between the parties and the famous “Form E” which is the legal equivalent of root canal treatment.

Actually it is not all that bad. It is just boring. You have to get a year’s bank statements, details of credit cards, have any properties valued and your pension valued.

These Form’s E are then exchanged to in the parties or their lawyers.

They are supposed to be exchanged simultaneously, and some lawyers get very excited about this but more experienced lawyers take a far more relaxed view. Just get it done and then compare notes, rather than have the drama and extra expense of putting one in the post with a promise to the other in the post, and so on.

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