When both spouses fly for a living, the question of where the children sleep on a Tuesday is not rhetorical. Divorce solicitors in Hillingdon deal with airline households more than any others in London, and the practical problems are real: rosters published a month ahead, nights away that cannot be swapped, and a final salary pension from an airline that may be worth more than the house. A pension sharing order is the only way to divide that pension, and valuing it properly, with an actuary if the figures justify one, is often the most important step in the whole case.
The houses vary. In Northwood, Ickenham and Eastcote the family home is a detached or semi-detached house bought decades ago, often with equity that makes two new homes possible; in Hayes and West Drayton it may be a terrace owned jointly with parents or a flat bought under a shared ownership scheme, and the realistic question is whether one spouse can keep it at all. Businesses in Uxbridge and Stockley Park, share schemes, and property in India, Pakistan or Poland all need disclosure and valuation.
Since April 2022 nobody has to be blamed: the application is made online and at least twenty weeks pass before the conditional order. Money and children are separate. An agreement is written into a consent order and approved without a hearing; a dispute is decided at Feltham, by the West London Family Court, once the mediation information and assessment meeting that the court expects has taken place.
Hillingdon firms usually charge a fixed fee for the divorce and hourly rates for the finances, with a free or low-cost first appointment. Legal aid is confined to cases with evidence of domestic abuse.
The divorce firms serving Hillingdon are listed below, verified firms first. Our explainers on the divorce process and divorce costs and the general divorce solicitors guide give the background; children and injunctions are covered by family law solicitors in Hillingdon.
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