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Ministry of Justice Form E Error

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Date:18 DEC 2015
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Amy Sanders

Form E has been trending, everyone’s talking about it…those are words I never thought I would hear myself say! The Ministry of Justice website which offers a range of court forms to download and use online, had an error in the Form E liabilities section, rendering calculations done on the website incorrect and meaning financial totals didn’t take into account the party’s debts.

The implications of this are clear – financial settlements arising from information submitted on these online versions of the Form E will be based on inaccurate figures and so may well be significantly incorrect. Whist we might like to ignore our debts – the Form E is not the place to do it.

As our sample Form E (contained on our DIY Divorce page) demonstrates; the figure at Section D of Question 2.20 on the form should be deducted from the total, however this was where the automatic calculation was going wrong. The amount of debt was ignored rather than subtracted, inflating the final picture of the party’s finances.



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