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Supporting Children Through Divorce or Separation
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Online Divorce Applications
All divorce applications must now be filed online using MyHMCTS. This meets the requirements of the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020, which is coming into force on 6 April 2022.
The only exceptions, which should be filed at the Bury St. Edmunds Regional Divorce Centre, are applications for:
• Civil partnership dissolution.
• Judicial separation.
• Nullity.
MyHMCTS allows applications to be submitted at any time and from any location.
There has been a huge decease in the number of online petitions that have been returned and it has been said that less than 1% of applications are being returned (compared to a previous figure of 20% of paper applications). This is according to Adam Lennon, Deputy Director of the MyHMCTS Family team. He highlights that divorces applied for online are being finalised in an average of 20 weeks, whereas those applied for on paper are taking 60 weeks which will come as welcome relief for many separating couples.