Fulham's terraces were bought for families, and a divorce has to decide whether anyone gets to keep one. The typical case in Hammersmith and Fulham involves a house in Parsons Green or Munster Village worth far more than it cost, two children at local schools and a mortgage that neither spouse can carry alone, so the central question is whether the house can be kept until the youngest leaves school or must be sold and the proceeds split into two smaller homes further out. Pensions, including NHS pensions from Charing Cross and Hammersmith hospitals, are valued against the house, and a pension sharing order is often the price of keeping it.
The divorce itself is no-fault and online, with twenty weeks before the conditional order, and takes little of a solicitor's time; the finances take most of it. Hammersmith and Fulham divorces are decided at the Central Family Court in Holborn, where the Financial Remedies Court sits, through a first appointment, a financial dispute resolution hearing where a judge gives an indication, and only then a final hearing; most settle at the second stage, and private hearings and arbitration are there for couples who want to avoid the queue.
The borough's international residents, from the French families of Fulham to the Polish community of Hammersmith, add questions about which country should hear the case and whether a marriage contract made abroad will be followed. In the council flats of Shepherd's Bush and White City the issue is more often which spouse keeps the tenancy, which the family court can transfer.
Fixed fees are usual for the application and consent orders, hourly fees for the financial dispute; legal aid is confined to cases with evidence of domestic abuse.
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