Marriage, relationships & families

When do you draw the line under mediation and move to court. Ex wife is refusing to sell the house and proposing a 60/40 split and pay me the balance in 3 years when our child turns 18. In order to do so she has to get a mortgage and in addition get an interest of charge to me against the property for when balance is due.…

Does anyone have any experience of applying to the courts to enforce a court order? More specifically, to ask the court to enforce directions made within a Financial Settlements case? My ex has not co operated with any court orders and has ignored all attempts at sorting out our finances and without necessary information I…

1 REPLY22 VIEWS MaebyForumite2 POSTS I am interested to hear people's experiences with the Court of Protection, especially if you have had dealings with them in the past year or so. I was appointed a financial deputy for my father in 2021. It was a fairly drawn out process but I received a court order confirming my…

Hello I'm not sure whether this can be answered on here, but I need to try. I walked out of my marriage (of 43 years at that time) and have purchased a very modest home where I live with my partner. I've reached an age where, due to various health issues, I would manage better living in a Bungalow or even a flat. In the 10…

Hallo all. I suspect this may have already been answered somewhere, so please bare with me. My x-wife and I are tackling the infamous D81 form to achieve a professional pension sharing order, Can somebody please advise: As we both receive state pensions, should they appear anywhere on this form as income etc? I receive a…

My partner and I are separating, amicably, and wish to legally formalise a shared custody arrangement using a C100 form. We have prepared our Parenting Plan but something is confusing me. The C100 asks on the first page if we "wish to formalise an agreement (consent order)?" and asks that a draft consent order be attached.…

My brother in laws partner died last May 2022 and the home they lived in [which they jointly owned] now needs to be sold, as his attorney he has asked me to appoint a solicitor to deal with this, which I did last August. Since then nothing has happened and our solicitor has written, emailed and phoned and gets nowhere, the…

Looking for some insight here. My wife is due to go back to work from 20 hrs pw to 30 hrs pw in March. She'll be working 8-2 each day. We have one DS age 13 (and stepson age 20 but not local) We both get 12 weeks of hols between us so can manage some of the school hols. We've no close family nearby. DS has been left for…

Hi, firstly we have no children. We've been married nearly 4 years have a joint mortgage for our home which we bought 10 years ago and only owe £40k on it. My wife has never worked and ive always paid all of the mortgage, bills, etc it we had a mortgage of £100k when we got married, i also paid an additional £25k from an…

Hi, i had a financial power of attorney made for my elderly Mum in 2018! My sister and i were attorneys and my lovely next door neighbour agreed to sign it as a witness. My mum went into a carehome a couple of years later with dementia. However my neighbour has recently died. So i wondered do i need to do anything? Do we…

So I know I was lucky to take my kids away on holiday last year Oct 22. This holiday was originally booked 2 years previous but we all know what happened then. So i've got the notice today, why has it taken weeks? The question I have is that they have fined both parents, we're both at the same address married which we were…

Any advice as both our workplaces are a bit confused, as are we. I'll try and stick to basic facts. - Myself and my partner are adopting soon - We understand we get 50 weeks of shared parental leave - We are planning to take 15 weeks off together initially (which would therefore count as 30 weeks of leave?) - Partner will…

Writing on behalf of a good friend who wants advice, aware he will need to get expert legal advice ultimately but having had people (including professionals) voicing completely differing opinions, thought he could come here first, to see if anyone here could help make situation clearer first. I will try and keep brief: My…

Hi, I wonder if anyone here can help? My sister's relationship has broken down and she has moved out of the house that she owns outright with her partner. He is refusing to sell the property and she has signed up with a solicitor to sort it out, but in a whole YEAR the solicitor has sent one letter and has run up a bill of…

Hi, I purchased a car for my ex to use, we split up last month and she went to have some “space” and stopped at my mums, she took the car and I let her take it as she kept giving me the impression we’d sort things out. We can’t and I would like the car back, she’s refusing. I have a part bank payment for the car and proof…

Hi all, So i have recently divorced from my wife, she has remarried. We have two children both under 18 and for the most part the divorce has been amicable. We agreed that we would not sell the family home (which I inherited from my parents and has always been in my name and I have always paid the mortgage which was on it)…

Hi, I’m in hospital for third week and finding it so hard. I’ve got excited about discharge and then it hasn’t happened. I’ve been allowed of the ward to go down a floor to the cafe and shops that the hospital has and each time I really don’t want to come back. I live on my own so was/had been fiercely independent. I gave…

I'm supporting my parents with their divorce and the financial separation is likely to trigger Capital Gains Tax. I'd like to understand more about it. My first question is have I got the right forum or do I need to be somewhere else? Now onto some of the detail, there are two properties. House 1 - purchased in 2000 with a…

A good almost outstanding primary 5 mins walk from our house. But all the secondary schools in our area are "rough", with below average performance, no sixth forms, limited subject options, minimal extra curricular. Or a 10 minute drive away, an all-through 4-18 school, good rated but excellent results, extra curricular,…

I'm not sure if this the right thread but I can't find something more specific!! I left my Ex in January 2022 (my fault). In the previous year, we had decided together to replace the kitchen in the house that she owns, from wren kitchens. It would cost around £12k. I paid the deposit of around £5k using savings, overdraft…