Respondent Questionnaire For Clean Break Order

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Your spouse has requested us to prepare a consent order for both of you. To proceed, please complete this questionnaire, which will take approximately 15 minutes. Ensure you have sufficient time to finish it in one sitting because part submissions cannot be saved.

Before you begin have all your financial details to hand. We will use the information you provide to advise you fully and to complete your application to the court for a consent order.

You have a duty to the court to give a full, frank and clear disclosure of all your financial and other relevant circumstances. A failure to give full and accurate disclosure may result in any order the court makes being set aside.

If you are found to have been deliberately untruthful, criminal proceedings may be brought against you for fraud under the Fraud Act 2006.

Requirements

You must have no children
You must have no assets to share (money, property, investments, or pensions)
You and your ex both agree to the clean break agreement and will both sign it

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Before you begin

We want to get your clean break order completed and approved by the court as quickly as possible. The court will only approve your clean break order if they have the information from the following questions. Please help us prepare your clean break order as quickly as possible by answering the following questions. This is a fully transparent process, so both parties have visibility of each other declared assets before signing the documents for the court's approval.

Did you read before you begin?

Name of Court

Please tell us the name of the court dealing with your divorce. (You can find this in any email or letter you have received from the court).

Your Divorce Case Number

Please enter the case number of your divorce.

Please select which this application is in relation to:

Marriage
Civil Partnership

Did you or your spouse ask for your address to be confidential on the divorce application?

Yes I asked for my address to be kept confidential from my spouse
My spouse asked for their address to be kept confidential from me
We did not keep our addresses confidential

IMPORTANT: You must tell us if you or your spouse asked the court to keep your address confidential. NOT SURE? Confidentiality was selected if the applicant's address was not on the divorce application. PLEASE NOTE: The Statement of Information includes your and your spouse's addresses as standard. If you or your spouse asked the court to keep your address confidential in your divorce application and you want it to remain confidential, or if you now want to keep your address confidential, you can add a confidentiality service for £95, where we will submit a separate document to the court that keeps your address confidential.

Conditional or Final Order Upload

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

We need to send the court a copy of your conditional order or your final order if you have completed your divorce. Please upload it here. If you have divorced under the old system, please attach your decree nisi or decree absolute.

Date of marriage or formation of civil partnership

Date you started living together (if before date of marriage)

What date did you separate?

Please provide an estimate if you can't remember the exact date.

Do you know the date of your conditional order (decree nisi)

Do you know the date of your final order (decree absolute)

Your Details

Your Name

First

Middle

Last

Please enter your name exactly as it appears on your divorce application.

Your Address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

On what basis do you occupy this property?

Phone

Your Date of Birth

Spouse Details

Spouse's Name

First

Middle

Last

Please write their name exactly as it appears on your divorce application.

Financial Disclosure

For the court to grant a clean break, you must tell them the total amount that you have in property, savings, debt and pensions - even though you are not sharing any of these things. Enter 0 if you do not have anything in one or more of the following categories.

Enter how much capital you have in property (less any mortgages)

To work this number out, take away the mortgage & other charges from the property's market value.

Enter how much other capital you have (e.g. savings, investments)

Add all of your savings and investments together as one sum.

Enter the total amount of non-mortgage debt you have (e.g. credit cards, loans)

Enter the total value of your non-state pensions

You can get this from your pension company. The number you need is known as the 'Pot Value', 'Total Value' or CETV (Cash Equivalent Transfer Value). You don't need to include state pensions.

Enter your pension protection fund valuation

Most people don't have this. Also known as a PPF, if you've never heard of it you probably don't have one.

Monthly Income

Your Monthly Income

Please enter your take home pay after tax and national insurance

Your Monthly Benefits

Please enter the total amount of benefits you receive each month including child benefit

Your Monthly Pension

Please enter the total amount of pension you receive each month

Your Monthly Other Income

Please enter the total amount of income you receive each month from other sources such as savings or investments.

Relationships

Please select the box which applies to your current relationship status.

At the present time, please select which of the following applies to you

I currently have no intention to remarry/enter into a new civil partnership or cohabit
I currently intend to remarry/enter into a new civil partnership
I am currently in a cohabiting relationship with another person
I currently intend to cohabit

If you have remarried/formed a new civil partnership, please provide the date you did this

If you intend to remarry/enter a new civil partnership, please provide the date

Reaching Your Agreement

How was your financial agreement reached?

Discussion between parties
Negotiation through solicitors
Mediation

Are you happy with the way the assets have been split and are you aware that you cannot make a future claim against the respondent once the order has been approved?

Is the split of assets broadly equal between you both?

Our clean break service is for couples who have reached a fair agreement. If your agreement isn’t fair and there is a significant imbalance of assets without good reason, the court will likely reject the application and request a statement from you asking why you believe your agreement to be fair. If you present an unfair agreement and insist that we submitted to the court and they refuses it, we have a statement service where we will prepare your statements and deal with the court on your behalf. The cost should you need this service is £295. Please note that this service does not guarantee the court will approve your consent order. It also does not cover rewriting the consent order should the court require you to amend your agreement.

Please explain why you split your assets in the way that you did and if you sought independent legal and/or financial advice.

Please use this section to add any information that helps the court see that your request for a clean break is fair. For example, prior financial settlements such as selling the former family home and splitting the proceeds, or explaining why there is a large disparity in assets between you and the respondent.

Yes, I have read and agree to the terms of the Privacy Statement (required)