To draft a Consent Order settling financial matters between a divorcing couple, where there are no minor children

We reserve the right to refuse to adopt this procedure where we perceive the client to be the financially weaker party

Kaslers Solicitors LLP need to

1. Disclose to us an itemized account (with realistic values) of your sole income, assets, liabilities and pension provision  - and any joint items
2. Write to your spouse  to ask him / her to do the same
3. Receive her information*
4. Get you to sign a disclaimer saying that you do not require us to investigate / scrutinize your spouse’s  detailed  financial position and that we are not tendering any advice as to whether we think the settlement reasonable
5. Draft a consent order
6. Draft a disclosure to the court of the financial position
7. Advise your spouse  to seek independent legal advice but ask him / her to agree both drafts*
8. Get you both to sign both documents*
9. Send an application to the Court and pay a Court fee

You will appreciate that the items marked * require your spouse’s co-operation and he / she might

1. Be slow or difficult about providing her current financial position
2. Allege that you are not making full disclosure
3. Not agree the documents
4. Be slow or difficult about signing
5. Engage a solicitor to argue her position

……………….or the Court might raise queries of its own initiative  

Assuming that your spouse agrees and signs everything by return and the Court has no queries, then our fixed fee is £875 + VAT + Court fee £40

If your spouse is slow difficult or argues any of the points marked * or the Court raises issues, then we cannot predict our fees. It will depend on the issues involved (“how long is a piece of string?”) . We then charge by reference to an hourly rate. It is theoretically possible for your spouse to open up fully blown contested financial dispute proceedings

Call Michael Breeze 07 900 195 195; Selwan Yousif 07795 821 803  or Luke English 0845 270 2511 to set up a fixed fee meeting at our Kent office