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This is a practical guide to divorce in England and Wales under the no-fault system that came in in 2022, and it's meant to be read for pleasure as well as used. It explains how the process really runs, from the application to the twenty-week wait to the final order, and why that part is the easy bit. The hard parts are the money and the children, and the book takes them slowly: how courts split property, why half each is where they start rather than where they must end, what Standish v Standish changed about inherited money, and why a pound of pension isn't worth the same as a pound of house.
It also covers how to buy legal help without paying for work that changes nothing, how mediation, arbitration and private hearings compare with court, child maintenance and child arrangements, prenups, cohabitation and international cases, and how Scotland and Northern Ireland do it differently. It takes domestic abuse and coercive control seriously, including when ordinary negotiation isn't safe. Four invented couples run through it, and there's a toolkit at the back with checklists, a financial inventory and a plain-English glossary. The law is as it stood in October 2026, with fees, figures and pending reforms dated.
This is a practical guide to divorce in England and Wales under the no-fault system that came in in 2022, and it's meant to be read for pleasure as well as used. It explains how the process really runs, from the application to the twenty-week wait to the final order, and why that part is the easy bit. The hard parts are the money and the children, and the book takes them slowly: how courts split property, why half each is where they start rather than where they must end, what Standish v Standish changed about inherited money, and why a pound of pension isn't worth the same as a pound of house.
It also covers how to buy legal help without paying for work that changes nothing, how mediation, arbitration and private hearings compare with court, child maintenance and child arrangements, prenups, cohabitation and international cases, and how Scotland and Northern Ireland do it differently. It takes domestic abuse and coercive control seriously, including when ordinary negotiation isn't safe. Four invented couples run through it, and there's a toolkit at the back with checklists, a financial inventory and a plain-English glossary. The law is as it stood in October 2026, with fees, figures and pending reforms dated.