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Online divorce by 2017 - or is the jury still out?
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According to the media today digital divorces are just a click away. By 2017 couples splitting up will use laptops or mobiles.
Really?
In his
address to the annual dinner of the Family Law Bar Association on 26 February 2016 Sir James Munby President of the Family Division said:
'In future proceedings will be issued online. The applicant - and remember the applicant will increasingly be a lay person bereft of professional assistance - will not fill in an online application form but an online questionnaire capturing all the relevant information while at the same time being much more user-friendly. Some processes will be almost entirely digitised: early examples will be digital online probate and digital online divorce both planned for at least initial implementation early in 2017. Some proceedings will be conducted almost entirely online even down to and including the final hearing. The judge who will not need to be in a courtroom will interact electronically with the parties and if they have them their legal representatives. The heaviest cases will of...
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