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Use this form to apply to a court to end your marriage or civil partnership.
Forms to apply for a divorce, dissolve a civil partnership or legally separate, including the D8 application and financial order forms.
Use this for to answer an application to end your marriage or civil partnership, or for a judicial separation.
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 if you wish to defend a divorce, dissolution, (judicial) separation or nullity petition or application issued by your spouse or civil partner.
Make a general application (‘application notice’) as part of divorce, dissolution or separation court proceedings.
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.
Use this form to ask the Central Family Court to search for a decree absolute or final order.
Complete one of these forms to support your application to separate or legally end your marriage or civil partnership.
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.
The respondent 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 apply for a conditional order confirming that the court does not see any reason why you cannot divorce or separate.
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.
Use Form A to start a request for a financial order in proceedings for divorce or ending a civil partnership.
Use this form to apply to the court for a final order to legally 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.
Use this form to apply to a court to legally separate from your husband, wife or civil partner without getting divorced.
(Part 3 of the Matrimonial and Family Proceedings Act 1984/Schedule 7 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004)
Ask for a court bailiff to hand-deliver papers to the other party in family court proceedings.
Form D180: Concerning judgments in matrimonial matters.
Don’t include personal or financial information like your National Insurance number or credit card details.
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