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Use this form to apply to a court to end your marriage or civil partnership.

Check you can get a divorce, agree or disagree with a divorce application, what to do if your husband or wife lacks mental capacity.

• Check you can get a divorce

  You can get divorced in England or Wales if all of the following are true:…

• Before you apply

  You must decide whether you want to make a joint application with your…

• How to apply

  To apply for a divorce you’ll need: yours and your husband or wife’s full…

• What happens after you apply

  What happens after you apply depends whether you applied for a divorce…

• Apply for a conditional order or decree nisi

  A conditional order and decree nisi are documents that say that the court…

• Finalise your divorce

  To end your marriage you must apply for either: a final order a decree…

• If your husband or wife lacks mental capacity

  You can apply for a divorce if your husband or wife ‘lacks mental…

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.

Use this for to answer an application to end your marriage or civil partnership, or for a judicial separation.

Use this form to ask the Central Family Court to search for a decree absolute or final order.

Forms to apply for a divorce, dissolve a civil partnership or legally separate, including the D8 application and financial order forms.

• Updated: 10 September 2018

Complete one of these forms to support your application to separate or legally end your marriage or civil partnership.

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.

Make a general application (‘application notice’) as part of divorce, dissolution or separation court proceedings.

When your husband or wife applies for divorce: how to respond, agree or disagree, start your own proceedings, court hearing, apply for a decree absolute.

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.

Use this form to apply to the court for a final order to legally end your marriage or civil partnership.

Use this form to apply for a conditional order confirming that the court does not see any reason why you cannot divorce or separate.

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.

Use this form only if you are applying for a financial remedy other than, for example, a financial order or financial relief after an overseas divorce or dissolution in the family court or High Court.

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.

Form D180: Concerning judgments in matrimonial matters.

(Part 3 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984/Schedule 7 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004)

Respondents can use this form to give the court notice that they intend to make an application for the court to consider the respondent's financial position after a divorce or dissolution.

Use this form to start a request for a financial order in proceedings for divorce or ending a civil partnership.