When a marriage ends in a quarter at Bulford or Tidworth, the house goes with it. Service family accommodation is tied to the serving spouse, so the civilian partner, often with the children, faces finding a home within months of the separation, in a market where Salisbury's prices are high and the villages are dearer still. Divorce solicitors in Salisbury begin a great many cases with that emergency, and with the two financial questions military divorces turn on: the armed forces pension, usually the biggest asset, which is shared by a pension sharing order calculated on the scheme's own rules, and the pattern of moves and deployments that has left one spouse with a career and the other without.
The rest of the city's divorces look more like the countryside around it: a farm or estate in one of the valleys, inherited land that one side says is not matrimonial, a business in the city, and the second marriages of people who retired here with assets to protect and prenuptial agreements that need upholding. Pensions from the hospital, the council and the MOD's civilian schemes need actuarial advice before they are divided.
The divorce itself is no-fault, applied for online, with twenty weeks before the conditional order; a spouse on operations can still be served and can apply jointly. Agreed finances go into a consent order approved by the family court at Salisbury Law Courts without a hearing; contested ones are decided there after a mediation information and assessment meeting, and a solicitor will plan hearings around deployment dates.
Fixed fees for the application and hourly or staged fees for finances are usual; some firms offer forces rates. Legal aid is available only where domestic abuse can be shown.
Divorce solicitors serving Salisbury are listed below, verified firms first. Read the divorce process, how much a divorce costs and the general divorce solicitors guide, and for children and deployment questions the family law solicitors in Salisbury page.
