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Financial Remedies: Quick-Find Precedents, Client and Third-Party Letters, Expert Instructions and Standard Orders (England and Wales)

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Practice notes

This Practice Note signposts key family precedents available in Lexis+® UK for use in financial remedy proceedings, including precedent letters to clients, experts and third parties, plus first appointment documents with accompanying drafting notes. It also provides links to the financial standard orders published as part of the standard orders project. Lexis+® UK financial provision client guides—precedent letters that family law practitioners may send directly to clients—are likewise included. For details of other essential family precedents on Lexis+® UK, see Practice Note: Fast find key family precedents.

Marital/civil partnership agreement precedents

The following pre-nuptial or pre-partnership precedents are intended for couples planning to marry or enter a civil partnership who wish to regulate their financial responsibilities and liabilities towards each other if divorce or dissolution follows. The client guides are precedent letters for clients explaining the implications of entering into a pre-nuptial or post-nuptial agreement:

Pre-nuptial or pre-partnership agreement
Pre-nuptial agreements—client guide
Post-nuptial agreements—client guide

For further guidance on marital/civil partnership agreements, see Practice Note: Implications of pre-nuptial agreements within proceedings...

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