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The first appointment is not about who is right
If you are representing yourself in a financial remedy case, the first hearing can feel like the day you make your case. It isn't. The first appointment is a short hearing, usually listed for 30 to 45 minutes, in which the judge plans the case: which valuations are needed, which questions the other side must answer, whether an expert is required and when the FDR will be. Nobody wins or loses. Go in with your draft directions order, your questionnaire and your diary. Say briefly what you need and why. The arguing comes later and often it never comes at all, because many cases settle at or after the FDR. What happens at the first appointment.
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There is no such thing as a common law marriage
Lived together twenty years, two children, paid half the mortgage? If you never married, the law of England and Wales gives you no financial claim against your partner for yourself when you separate: no maintenance and no share of their pension. A home in their sole name is theirs unless you can show a trust or an agreement, which is a hard road; the most the court can usually do is let you stay for a limited period under the Family Law Act 1996 (section 36). What you get depends on whose name is on what and on trust law. Children can be provided for under Schedule 1 to the Children Act 1989 and a cohabitation agreement with a declaration of trust is the surest way to fix who owns what in advance. Cohabitants and the law.
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"Pre-nups aren't worth the paper they're written on"
They used to be close to that. Since 2010 the position is different: a court will give effect to a nuptial agreement that both of you entered into freely, understanding what it meant, unless it would be unfair to hold you to it when the marriage ends. The things that make it stick are disclosure, advice, time before the wedding and not leaving anyone in need. Not binding, but usually decisive. What the law says.
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Why we built RemedyReady
After thirty years in the family courts, Maria had watched too many people walk into a hearing with the wrong papers, or none, because they could not afford the hours a solicitor needs to prepare them. The forms are public. The rules are public. What people lack is a way to turn their own figures into documents that look the way the court expects. That is what RemedyReady does, at a fixed price per document, with no advice and no pretence of it. We run the business together. We launch on 4 December 2026. Meet the founders.