A four-bedroom house in Petts Wood with a large mortgage, two children at fee-paying schools, one salary from the City and one part-time job at the hospital: that is the divorce Bromley solicitors see most often, and the first question is always whether the house can be kept until the children finish school. Often it can, through an order that delays the sale until a set date, but someone then has to pay the mortgage and the fees on one income, and the spouse who waits for their share may not be able to buy again in Bromley when the day comes. Divorce solicitors in Bromley are candid that school fees are usually the first thing to go.
Since the no-fault reform of April 2022 the divorce itself is an online application, a twenty-week wait, a conditional order and, six weeks later, a final order. Financial claims survive the final order unless a consent order ends them, so even an amicable couple need one. Bromley's older couples, in Chislehurst, Bickley and West Wickham, bring the different problem of dividing pensions and a house that is paid off after a thirty-year marriage, and sometimes a share in a family business or a farm in the green belt. Pension sharing orders need a valuation before anything is agreed.
Agreed terms are approved on paper; contested financial applications follow a mediation information and assessment meeting and are heard at the family court in Bromley. Legal aid is available only where there is evidence of domestic abuse.
Bromley firms generally quote a fixed price for the divorce and charge the financial side by the hour or by stage; a free first meeting is common.
The divorce firms below serve Bromley, verified first. Useful background: how much a divorce costs, the divorce process and the general divorce solicitors page; arrangements for the children are covered by family law solicitors in Bromley.
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