Respondent Questionnaire For Consent Order

Before you begin

We want to get your consent order completed and approved by the court as quickly as possible. The court will only approve your consent order if they have the information from the following questions. Please help us prepare your consent 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?

Yes
No

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).

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 to live together (if before date of marriage)

What date did you separate?

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

Yes
No

Enter the date of your conditional order or decree nisi

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

Yes
No

Enter the date of your final order or 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

Country

On what basis do you occupy this property?

Your phone number

Your email

Your occupation

Your date of birth

Your Ex-spouse's Details

Spouse name

First

Middle

Last

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

Spouse's address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Children of the Family

A child of the family is a child you and the respondent are biological parents of or a child you both treated as a child of their family and is younger than 18.

How many children do you have?

Child 1 name

First

Middle

Last

Child 1 date of birth

Where does child 1 live?

Child 1 address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Child 2 name

First

Middle

Last

Child 2 date of birth

Where does child 2 live?

Child 2 address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Child 3 name

First

Middle

Last

Child 3 date of birth

Where does child 3 live?

Child 3 address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Child 4 name

First

Middle

Last

Child 4 date of birth

Where does child 4 live?

Child 4 address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Child 5 name

First

Middle

Last

Child 5 date of birth

Where does child 5 live?

Child 5 address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

Future Housing Arrangements

Please enter your future housing arrangements.

Are you planning on moving from your current home?

Yes
No

The answer is yes if you intend to sell your home or transfer the property to the respondent.

Do you know the address where you are planning to move to?

Yes
No

Your new address

Address Line 1

Address Line 2

City

State / Province / Region

Postal Code

Country

On what basis will you occupy your new property?

Your Financial Disclosure

Please list all capital assets (including all pensions, shares, savings and property) owned. For the court to be able to grant a consent order, both parties must provide full financial disclosure. We cannot prepare your documents without this information because the court will not approve your consent order. Provide the information for yourself. Jointly owned capital should be divided as appropriate. Enter 0 if you do not have anything in one or more of the following areas.

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. If you and the respondent share the property, enter the value of your share only.

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)

Joint debt should be divided between you and the respondent

Enter the total value of your non-state pensions

If you don't have this figure it can be obtained from your pension company. It can also be referred to as 'Pot Value', 'Total Value' or CETV (Cash Equivalent Transfer Value)

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.

Your Monthly Income

Enter amounts in all sources that apply to you. Enter 0 if you have nothing in one or more sources. For the court to be able to grant a consent order, you must provide full financial disclosure. Without this information, the court will not approve your consent order.

Enter your monthly take-home pay from employment

Enter your monthly income from all employment after tax and national insurance.

Enter how much you receive each month in benefits (including child benefit)

Enter how much you receive each month from a pension

Enter how much you receive each month from any other income

E.g. trust fund income, investment income

Child Support/Maintenance

Do you receive child support/maintenance payments from?

The applicant
A former spouse or partner

Tick all that apply

Enter how much child maintenance you receive from the applicant each month.

Enter how much child maintenance you receive each month from a former spouse or partner.

Do you pay any child support/maintenance payments?

Yes to the applicant
Yes to a former spouse or partner

Tick all that apply

Enter how much child maintenance you pay the applicant each month.

Enter how much child maintenance you pay a former spouse or partner each month.

Your Financial Arrangements

Please give details on any financial arrangements to which you and your spouse have agreed. This includes agreements such as sale of property, pension sharing, maintenance for children etc. Please provide full details including dates. If property is to be transferred or sold and is mortgaged, please provide the name of the mortgage provider and the account number. If a lump sum is to be paid please provide the latest date by which the lump sum will be paid. If you are sharing pension please include the exact name of the scheme, the address and policy or reference number.

Please tick all of the following that apply to your financial arrangement

Lump sum payment
Sale of property
Buyout of property
Pension Sharing

Lump Sum Payment

You should only see this section if your financial agreement includes a lump sum payment. Please untick the box above if a lump sum payment is not taking place.

Who is receiving the lump sum payment?

Me
The applicant

What is the total value of the lump sum payment?

By what date must the lump sum be paid?

Please provide any other important detail about the lump sum payment.

E.g. How the lump sum will be funded (from savings, a loan, remortgage); if it's being paid across multiple payments (give dates for each payment).

Sale of Property

This section should only be visible if you plan to sell your former marital home or other jointly-owned property. Please untick the box above if you are not selling a jointly-owned property.

What is the address of the property being sold?

How much is the property worth?

By what date will the property be sold?

Do you have a mortgage on the property?

Yes
No

Whose name is on the mortgage?

My name
The applicant's name
Both of our names

How much mortgage is outstanding on the property?

Please provide the name of the mortgage provider and account number

How will the proceeds of the sale be split between you and the applicant?

The proceeds are the amount left after paying off the mortgage and other costs of sale. The split needs to be shown as a percentage, e.g. 50% applicant, 50% respondent.

Buyout and Transfer of Property

This section should only be visible if you plan to buyout the applicant's share of your jointly owned property (or they are buying you out). Please untick the box above if a buyout is not taking place.

What is the address of the property being transferred?

How much is the property worth?

Who is remaining in the property?

I am. I'm buying the applicant out.
The applicant. They are buying me out.

How much are you paying the applicant to buy them out of their share?

How much is the applicant paying you to buy you out of your share?

By what date will the buy out take place?

Is there a mortgage on the property?

Yes
No

Whose name is on the mortgage?

My name
The applicant's name
Both of our names

How much mortgage is outstanding on the property?

Please provide the name of the mortgage provider and account number

Have you informed your mortgage company that you intend to transfer the property?

Yes
No

Has any objection to a transfer of property been made by the mortgage company?

Yes
No

Is the property being remortgaged to fund the buyout?

Yes
No

What is the total amount of the new mortgage put on the property?

Pension Sharing

This section should only be visible if you are sharing pensions. Please untick the box above if you are not sharing each others pensions.

Who will receive the pension?

I will from the applicant.
The applicant from my pension.

A pension-sharing order is usually made in favour of the person with the least amount of pension.

Do you have more than one pension?

Yes
No

Please confirm the total CETV of all of your pensions

CETV (Cash Equivalent Transfer Value)

Please confirm the CETV of your pension

CETV (Cash Equivalent Transfer Value)

Enter the CETV of the pension you are going to share

If you have multiple pensions, the court prefers you to choose one pension to transfer to avoid unnecessary pension transfer fees. For example, suppose you were planning to transfer a pension sum of £125k, and you had pension A worth £150k and pension B worth £100k. The usual practice would be sharing pension A only, not Pensions A and B. We show this as a percentage in the pension-sharing order: 88.33% of £150k = £125k.

Enter the amount of pension to be shared with the respondent

Enter the amount of pension the respondent is transferring to you

Please provide the fund name, address and reference number of the pension being shared.

IMPORTANT: It is critical to provide the exact fund name, address, email address and reference number. The pension company will refuse to action the transfer if the documents don't contain the correct details. If this happens, we must amend the documents and resubmit them to the court, which will delay your pension share and incur a change fee.

Has the pension company been made aware of the intent to share or transfer the pension?

Yes
No

Has there been any objection by the pension company to the pension transfer?

Yes
No

Anything Else

If you have made any other agreements not captured in the previous section, enter them here.

Any other financial agreements

Reaching Your Agreement

How was your financial agreement reached?

Discussion between parties
Negotiation through solicitors
Mediation

Please provide the name and address of the solicitor you used

Please provide the name and address of the mediator you used

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

Yes
No

Is the split of assets broadly equal between you both?

Yes
No

Our consent order services are 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 provide reasons why the assets have been split as they have and if either of you sought independent legal and/or financial advice.

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
I've remarried/formed a new civil partnership

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

Privacy Policy

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

Respondent Questionnaire For Consent Order

Before you begin

Your Details

Your Ex-spouse's Details

Children of the Family

Future Housing Arrangements

Your Financial Disclosure

Your Monthly Income

Child Support/Maintenance

Your Financial Arrangements

Lump Sum Payment

Sale of Property

Buyout and Transfer of Property

Pension Sharing

Anything Else

Reaching Your Agreement

Relationships

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