Avoid a solicitor if you can - you can pick the forms up from WHSmiths, I believe
I had to get a solicitor when I split from my ex, it cost me around £1,000 and here I am nearly three years on without anything sorted at all.
No divorce papers.
No financial settlement.
Nothing.

Why?

Because he comes from an extremely wealthy farming family who have the best accountants in the South East...so he is (on paper) worth nothing.
I don't want to take every penny he's got but walking out of a marriage of ten years with nothing but your clothes and the kids isn't fair. I left behind my home, my career (I'd given up working full time to have the children and to work for his company, unpaid), not just my marriage.


Bitter?
At times.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 13:26, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Having met you and your kids I think you got the better deal : )

( girlinthehole, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 14:13, Reply)

Thank you
I think you're right but a little money to make life easier would be good.
( chickenlady b3ta's very own Elizabeth Taylor, Wed 17 Jun 2009, 14:53, Reply)

Suggestion: stick PMJ out there as a rent-boy
and watch the money roll in.
( flirting with badgers What? It sounded good at the time., Wed 17 Jun 2009, 18:43, Reply)