Self-Representation

Traditionally there are two options for people going to court over finances or children:

1) Use an solicitor to manage your case and represent you at costs of £5K to £20K.
or
2) Manage the case yourself which is free but difficult, stressful and may lead to a poor outcome.

With the huge cuts in Legal Aid - the number of people having to manage court cases themselves has increased dramatically and now around 50% of people in family court cases do not have a solicitor.

In 2017, our 10 year anniversary, Wikivorce has launched a solution - one which is affordable, accessible and available to anyone.

We now offer access to a personal "Divorce Consultant" who can provide coaching, guidance and practical support.

We provide a range of fixed fee services - or you can use a flexible arrangement with an hourly rate of £70 (incl VAT). This is much, much cheaper than a solicitor service - especially as you will be doing some of the work yourself, so you will need less hours of "Divorce Consultant" time than you would have needed for a solicitor to do the job for you.

The help we can provide includes:

- high level coaching on the end to end process, as well as strategies and tactics to succeed.
- explaining the letters that you have received from the court
- help you to organise your paperwork
- explaining clearly what forms and documents need to be produced, in what format, and by when
- providing advice and support to enable you to write letters to the court, solicitor or other party
- ensuring you have all your paperwork ready and organised for your hearing
- coaching you on how to get your points across in the hearing

What our "Divorce Consultants" do not do:

- we do not provide legal advice, but we can arrange for you to speak to a barrister or solicitor to get the right legal advice
- we cannot write to the court or a solicitor on your behalf, we will instead enable you to write to them
- we do not attend court, but we can arrange for a barrister or solicitor to attend court for a fixed fee