Monthly Archives: July 2015

Periodic payments – divorce costs

When a financial order is made, the judge specifies how and when divorce costs or payments should be made from one party to the other. Often, periodic payments are ordered, to give the recipient a regular income; this can be particularly important if the recipient hasn’t been in work for a number of years and may need […]

Cost orders in divorce

If you file the application for a divorce, you are called the petitioner and your ex-partner is the respondent. When the divorce is granted, the phrase you might hear is that ‘costs follow the event‘. That means that the divorce is granted to the petitioner, and following that, so is the order for costs. Unlike costs […]