What Is This All About?

Getting divorced does not automatically mean your finances will also be resolved. Separate legal proceedings are required for each. Dealing with the money is known as ‘financial remedy proceedings’.

When a married couple separates each has a financial ‘claim’ against the other, until a court dismisses that claim.

Most married couples will have some assets held in their joint names, for instance the family home, but even if all your assets are held separately, as a result of your marriage you will have legal claims against each other, which remain alive unless they are dismissed by a family judge.