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Use this form if you wish to defend a divorce, dissolution, (judicial) separation or nullity petition or application issued by your spouse or civil partner.
Guides for legal professionals submitting a divorce or dissolution application using the new law service – applications made after 6 April 2022.
How you can have a marriage annulled, the reasons you can give for annulling a marriage and the forms you will need to apply for an annulment. This includes information from the withdrawn D191 guide.
Child maintenance and disagreements about parentage
How to get a legal or judicial separation if you want to separate from your partner without divorcing them.
Use this form to ask the court to proceed with your divorce, dissolution, nullity of judicial separation proceedings without the papers being served on the other party.
How to get contact with your grandchildren if parents divorce or separate and will not let you see them: mediation, applying for a court order
Ask the court to proceed with your divorce, dissolution, nullity or (judicial) separation proceedings even though the respondent could not be served with the papers.
Annual divorce numbers and rates, by duration of marriage, sex and to whom granted and reason.
Guides for legal professionals using online old law divorce services with MyHMCTS. These guides are for applications submitted before April 2022.
Seeking views on how best to change the law to reduce family conflict and strengthen family responsibility.
This report presents evidence from a comparative study of marriage, cohabitation, parenthood and divorce among adolescents and young people
Annual divorce numbers and rates, by duration of marriage, sex, age, previous marital status, and to whom granted and reason.
Form D50F: Application for financial relief after an overseas divorce etc. under section 12 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 / Schedule 7 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004.
Form D50E: Application for permission to apply for financial relief after an overseas divorce etc. under section 13 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984 / paragraph 4 of Schedule 7 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004.
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