Decree absolute - how long

Morglin

My divorce took 6 months to get from application to Nisi, and then the Absolute arrived automatically after 6 weeks.

The only time I had to attend court was to swear the Affidavit in front of a clerk.

He didn't have to attend at all.

Lin

hilstep2000

Yep, you can apply 6weeks and on day after the Nisi is granted. My divorce took three months from start to finish.

Bossyboots

Morglin wrote:

My divorce took 6 months to get from application to Nisi, and then the Absolute arrived automatically after 6 weeks.

The only time I had to attend court was to swear the Affidavit in front of a clerk.

He didn't have to attend at all.

Lin

The absolute cannot simply arrive after six weeks as there are legal and financial implications on grant of the absolute. Someone must have completed the application for decree absolute and only the petitioner can do it in the first three months following nisi. Therefore, if you did not do it then someone else did by forging your signature or the Court has made a gross error.

littlebird_2

Thanks for your comments everyone - fingers crossed it won't be too long then!

Thanks Bossyboots for your feedback - will speak to the solicitor.

Morglin

Bossyboots wrote:

The absolute cannot simply arrive after six weeks as there are legal and financial implications on grant of the absolute. Someone must have completed the application for decree absolute and only the petitioner can do it in the first three months following nisi. Therefore, if you did not do it then someone else did by forging your signature or the Court has made a gross error.

I was the petitioner, and there were no financial implications...........I didn't want anything of his - he'd worked for it, and it wasn't mine.

Our kids were grown up, and there was no house to split.

I got my Nisi, and 6 and a half weeks later, I got my Absolute.

As I then got remarried, I can only assume that the registrar that checked I was legally divorced, was quite happy with the paperwork.;)

The same applied to my now-hubby (petitioner) who also had a clean-break agreement with his divorce - he got his Absolute about 8 weeks after his Nisi (and that delay was due to Christmas falling in the middle).

Neither of us made any special application for our Absolutes - they just arrived, as our solicitors told us they would.

Lin

NAR

Morglin wrote:

Neither of us made any special application for our Absolutes - they just arrived, as our solicitors told us they would.
Lin

Same here.

loftus

My solicitor informed me that he would apply for the absolute on my behalf as soon as it was legally possible to do so - unless I had reasons for it to be delayed.
There was definately an application made, it wasn't automatic, but I didn't have to do anything more.