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Urgent issue of a divorce petition when freezing injunction needed or when there is a race due to jurisdiction

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Date:15 JAN 2018
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Tony Roe
Collaborative lawyer & Family law arbitrator

I was contacted by another family lawyer earlier this month who had experienced certain problems in issuing a divorce petition. The lawyer, based nowhere near any of the divorce centres, wanted to issue her client’s petition at her local court on an urgent basis owing to a forum dispute.

I explained that this was possible. Because of the problem, the lawyer took it up with HMCTS.

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