More information to issue Divorce Petition?

Hi everyone.

I recently sent my solicitor the completed fee remission form for legal aid and completed divorce petition. (she said I was under the threshold to receive it).

Today I received a letter from her saying that the court may not issue the Divorce Petition depending upon whether they consider the information they have regarding my proof of income to be sufficient. They may raise issues regarding it before issuing the petition.

What issues might there me?

In the pack I sent...

• 3 months bank statements for my personal account


• 3 months statements for savings account (I have £2,000 left in that - I take a little out each month to make up the shortfall in my income to pay the bills)


• Documents from HMRC etc re. Child Benefit and Child/Working Tax Credit amounts received


• Statement for newly opened business bank account (recently became self employed.)


• Copy of the only 2 invoices issued (and paid into said business account) for new business (totalling just over £400 over 2 months)

Is there something i'm missing? What else might they require? I don't have any accounts as I have only just become self employed.

How long might it take the courts to decide?

Hope someone might be able to shed some light on this! Beside myself already! Urggg its going to be a long long road isn't it...

Divigirl
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Your solicitor is covering all ­base­s as the fee remission process is overly-complex, slow and ultimately designed to prevent people from obtaining the remission that they are entitled to.

It rather depends upon which court you are using but in my local court I have seen applications returned after 3 months as the information is out of date. I think a court clerk must wait for the documents to expire before sending back the application.

I have very little faith in the system but you might strike it lucky.

Charles

Thanks for your post Charles.

Oh that does sound hopefull! :/

I guess mine would be going to King's Lynn Courts.

(don't hold out a lot of hope for Norfolk to be honest!)

King's Lynn is a relatively small place so it can go either way. They might be unfamiliar with rarely used forms and your application could go straight to the bottom of the pile or they might have a sensible workload in which case there will be minimal delay.

Charles

Hi Charles. My mum works at a different solicitors in that town who last year, got most of their work from it so here's hoping they're on the ball! (either that or they'll be so busy with all the applications that I'll go to the bottom of the pile anyway lol)