The money side of divorce, explained without the fog.
Divorce is hard enough without guessing what it will cost or what a fair settlement looks like. Divorce Finance Specialists gives you free calculators built on published court fees, plain-English guides checked against official sources, and, when you are ready, an introduction to a vetted family law specialist. No sign-up needed for any of the tools.
Put numbers on it before you commit to anything.
Every tool shows its working and states its assumptions. Court fees are taken from the published HMCTS schedule and dated, so you know the figures are current.
Divorce cost calculator
What your divorce is likely to cost end to end, by route: doing it yourself online, a fixed-fee service, or a solicitor-led case. Includes the July 2026 court fee increases.
Help with Fees checker
Court fees can be reduced or waived if your income and savings are below set thresholds. Check in two minutes whether you are likely to qualify before you pay anything.
Consent order and clean break cost calculator
A financial order is the only thing that makes your settlement binding. See what one costs across the DIY, fixed-fee and solicitor routes.
Financial settlement range estimator
There is no formula for a divorce settlement, and anyone who gives you a single number is guessing. Our estimator gives you a realistic range based on the factors courts actually weigh, with every assumption stated.
Mediation vs solicitor cost comparison
Most people do not need a courtroom. Compare what mediation, solicitor negotiation and court proceedings typically cost, including the Family Mediation Voucher.
The questions everyone asks, answered from official sources.
Who keeps the house. What happens to pensions. Whether you need a solicitor at all. How Form E works. What a clean break order actually does. Our guides are written from gov.uk, HMCTS and legislation, dated, and updated when the rules change.
Divorce finances look different depending on what you own and who depends on you.
For most divorcing couples the family home is the largest asset, the biggest emotional weight and the hardest question.
Business owners divorcingWhen one or both of you own a business, the settlement gets harder in ways that catch people out: the company has to be valued, the value has to be found from somewhere, and the business has to keep trading while all of it happens.
Separated parentsWhen you have children, separation is not a transaction to be won.
Divorcing over 50Divorce later in life, after a long marriage, has its own financial shape.
We are not a law firm. We know good ones.
Everything on Divorce Finance Specialists is general information, and some situations need more than that: you cannot agree a settlement, there is a business or a pension worth more than the house, or you simply want it handled properly. Tell us about your situation and we will introduce you to a vetted family law firm or accredited mediator suited to it. Your details are shared only with your consent, we may receive a fee from the firm we introduce you to, and you are never under any obligation to proceed.
Tell us where you are
A short form. Where you are in the process, what is at stake, what kind of help you want.
We match you
A vetted specialist firm or accredited mediator suited to your situation, not a call centre round robin.
They contact you directly
Usually within a few working days. You decide whether to go ahead. Walking away costs nothing.
For anyone, at any stage, including "we have only just started talking about this". Our calculators estimate the full cost of divorce by route, check whether you qualify for help with court fees, price a consent order, sketch a realistic settlement range and compare mediation against solicitors, all using the current HMCTS fee schedule with the working shown. Alongside them sit plain-English guides to settlements, pensions, the family home and the process itself, written from official sources and dated so you know they are current.
- ✓Divorce cost calculator with July 2026 court fees
- ✓Help with Fees eligibility checker
- ✓Consent order and settlement range tools
- ✓Plain-English guides, dated and sourced
- ✓Free for everyone, always, no sign-up
For when your situation needs professional hands. You cannot agree, there is a business, a serious pension or property abroad, disclosure is being dodged, or you simply want it done properly and once. Tell us about your situation and we will introduce you to a vetted, SRA-regulated family law firm or an accredited mediator suited to it. Your details are shared only with your consent, we may receive a fee from the firm we introduce you to, and you remain free to walk away at any stage.
- ✓Matched to a vetted, regulated firm
- ✓Family solicitors or FMC-accredited mediators as your situation needs
- ✓Shared only with your consent, fee arrangement disclosed plainly
- ✓No obligation to proceed
For divorces that unfold over months, not weeks. A financial settlement is rarely one conversation: there is disclosure, negotiation or mediation, the order itself, then implementation, pension sharing, remortgaging, the transfer of the house. Through our partner firms you can put professional support around the whole sequence rather than a single step, and where a question is really one for a regulated financial adviser, such as what to do with pension rights after a sharing order, we and our partners will say so plainly and point you to the right kind of professional. We provide the information and the introductions, the professional work sits with the specialists you choose.
- ✓Support from first disclosure through to implementation
- ✓The right specialist at each stage, not one hammer for every nail
- ✓Honest signposting when you need a regulated financial adviser instead
- ✓You choose if and when to proceed
Read this before you trust any site about divorce money.
Divorce Finance Specialists is a free information service, not a law firm and not a financial adviser. Nothing here is legal or financial advice, and our settlement estimator gives ranges, never verdicts. If you use a firm we introduce you to, that firm may pay us a fee. It never changes what you pay, and it never changes what our guides and calculators say. That is the entire business model, stated plainly, because a site about money during divorce should not be coy about its own.
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