Responding to a Divorce

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Here at Divorce Rights we can help you if you are facing divorce proceedings. As a "Respondent" you must consider taking legal advice to protect your interests and determine what might be the best course of action for you.

You may have separated already, you may have received a letter from your husband/wife’s solicitor stating your spouse is to divorce you or you may have actually received some papers from the County Court.

There are 3 main options available to you:  

1.    Allow the divorce to proceed  

2.    Defend the divorce proceedings  

3.    Defend and Cross-Petition – you still want a divorce, but on your terms not your husband/wife’s  

Divorce Petition - What to do?

Sometimes when you receive a divorce petition, you are annoyed and upset by the allegations made in it. You may think the best way forward is to defend it but this course of action may carry with it the pitfalls of legal costs and delay.

If you allow the divorce to proceed, we may be able to negotiate that some of the allegations set out in the petition are removed or amended. Sometimes this is the quickest and cheapest way forward.  

It may be that your money can be more wisely spent on legal fees about matters concerning your children, and money, rather than on the divorce itself. 

You need legal advice to help you decide which is the best of the three options for you.  It is important that you obtain legal advice quickly, if at all possible, before the divorce proceedings begin.      

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