# Divorce or dissolve a partnership

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    type: "Service Family"
    title: "Divorce or dissolve a partnership"
    description: "Use the applicable court route to end the legal relationship and handle children, money, property and immigration consequences through their separate processes."
    status: "population-complete"
    assertion_status: "normalized"
    jurisdiction: "nation-specific"
    observed_at: "2026-08-08"
    sources:
      - id: "relationships-and-family-change-source-register"
        title: "Relationships and family change"
        resource: "../source/domain-registers/relationships-and-family-change.v1.yaml"
        author: "organisation:okf-uk-living"
        observed_at: "2026-08-08"
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    # Divorce or dissolve a partnership

    ## Place in the process

    This topic sits within **Form, change and support family relationships** in the **Relationships and family change** life-course
    domain. What comes before depends on the person's situation and nation; the first
    safe step is to select the current official route rather than assume one UK process.

    ## What this family covers

    Use the applicable court route to end the legal relationship and handle children, money, property and immigration consequences through their separate processes.

    The ordinary discovery journey is to select the jurisdiction-specific route, follow
    the responsible authority or provider's current instructions, and retain the
    confirmation, referral, decision or next-step information it produces.

    ## If the ordinary route does not fit

    If a route is unavailable, the circumstances fall outside it, or the source signals
    an urgent, safeguarding, clinical or legal boundary, stop and follow that authority's
    exception or complaint handoff. The bundle records this branch but does not decide it.

    Where a non-public provider is needed, start with the current public regulator, register or commissioning route; this bundle does not recommend providers.

    ## Official routes

    - [England: Get a divorce](https://www.gov.uk/divorce)
    - [Scotland: Births, deaths and family in Scotland](https://www.mygov.scot/browse/birth-death-family)
    - [Wales: Get a divorce](https://www.gov.uk/divorce)
    - [Northern Ireland: Find out your rights in Northern Ireland](https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/find-out-your-rights)

    These are links and original navigation summaries. A national discovery page is a
    handoff to the current service, not evidence that eligibility, evidence, costs,
    deadlines or remedies are identical across nations or providers.

    ## What may follow

    The result can feed the next family in **Form, change and support family relationships**, another enclosing
    process, or a provider-specific review or redress route. Use Graph to inspect the
    ordinary and exception episodes, sources, actors, requirements, outputs and outcomes.

    ## Review status

    This record is population-complete for discovery and requires specialist review
    before any legal, clinical, safeguarding or high-impact operational claim is
    described as release-grade.