Many Barnet marriages end twice. The civil divorce, no-fault since April 2022, is applied for online, alone or jointly, and cannot reach a conditional order for at least twenty weeks; the religious divorce, the get, is granted through the Beth Din, and until it is given an observant wife cannot remarry within her faith. Divorce solicitors in Golders Green, Hendon and Finchley are used to running the two side by side, and know that the court can be asked to withhold the final civil order until the religious one has been completed, a lever that has broken many a stalemate. Muslim couples who married abroad, and the borough's Iranian community, bring their own questions about whether a marriage is recognised here at all.
The money is where most of the work lies. Barnet's family homes range from an ex-council flat in Burnt Oak to a detached house in Totteridge or Hampstead Garden Suburb, and the home is usually the largest asset and the hardest to split, particularly when parents helped with the deposit and expect it back. Pensions from the NHS, teaching and the Metropolitan Police need valuing and often a pension sharing order; family businesses need their accounts read carefully. Where the couple agree, the solicitor drafts a consent order that the family court in Finchley approves on paper. Where they do not, the financial application is heard there, normally after a mediation information and assessment meeting.
Fixed fees are common for the divorce itself; the financial side is charged by the hour, usually with an estimate for each stage. Legal aid is available only where there is evidence of domestic abuse.
Barnet's divorce solicitors are listed below, verified firms first. Background reading: the divorce process, how much a divorce costs and the general divorce solicitors page. For arrangements about children see family law solicitors in Barnet.
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