Divorce & Financial Separation: First Steps

This practical guide helps you organise the financial information commonly needed during separation. It is general information, not individual legal advice.

Build a picture of the finances

• Bank and savings accounts
• Property and mortgages
• Pensions
• Investments and shares
• Loans, credit cards and other debts
• Income and regular expenditure
• Business or other financial interests

Gather supporting documents

• Recent bank statements
• Mortgage statements
• Property valuation information if available
• Pension statements
• Investment statements
• Loan and credit-card statements
• Payslips or other income evidence
• Business accounts where relevant

If you have agreed your finances

An informal agreement is not automatically legally binding. GOV.UK explains that a consent order can be used to ask the court to approve an agreed financial arrangement.

When additional legal advice may be sensible

• Serious disagreement about finances
• Concerns that assets have not been disclosed
• Complex businesses, trusts or overseas assets
• Urgent court proceedings
• Need for court representation

How Tony Legal Support can help

We can help organise financial information, identify missing paperwork, prepare structured summaries and support straightforward paperwork and correspondence within our permitted scope.