Financial Disputes in Divorce

Our barristers can advise you if you and your former partner cannot agree on financial matters during, or after, a divorce. For example, you may not be able to agree on how assets should be divided, whether to sell your home or other assets, maintenance payments, or pension sharing.

If you cannot agree, you can apply to a court for a financial order. You may need to attend a number of court hearings – our barristers can represent you in these hearings.

Timescales

Timescales for your case may vary depending on factors such as barristers’ availability, the value and complexity of your assets, whether you have children, how much you have already agreed with your former partner, and their approach. Written advice on your financial dispute will be available within two to four weeks where possible. As a guide, court hearings for a financial order tend to take six to twelve months. This does not include possible appeals.

Fees

We will usually charge fixed fees, which means that we will charge you a set amount of money for the work. Below we provide estimates based on the ranges of fixed fees for barristers in Trent Chambers, where the parties have joint assets which are worth less than £300,000.

All fees do not include VAT. We will always advise you if a fee has VAT added when we confirm a quote.

Please note that the fee ranges are estimates only. The exact fee we charge may vary depending on your needs – for example, your fees may be towards the higher end of the range if you need a more experienced barrister and/or you have a more complex case. If you have a particularly complex case or if the case is urgent, your fees may also be higher than the estimates below. Fees for hearings will also be higher if barristers have to travel long distances for the hearing.

All information is correct as of December 2021, but the indicated fees are estimates only. For a quotation, please contact the clerks.