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Hi. Please I need advise on safeguarding myself with respect to my divorce from my ex. We didn't have anything shared or bought together when we were married for only about a year before our separation. During the 1 year marriage, we only lived together for less than 6 months in the U.K before I left for my home country as I do not have longer residency permit in the U.K. at the time. My concern is could she have any ground whatsoever to make financial claims on me in the future since she demanded financial claims for her and our child(whom she denied me contact with) in the divorce papers she filed against me and I have signed and it's now Absolute? Thank you
Was there a financial settlement in the dovorce? If not, then she may have the option to claim against you. If you haeve a child together, then she can open a case against you using CMS for child maintenance, even if there was a financial settlement in the divorce, as the CMS can supercede any child maintenance order after a year.
I'm pretty sure you can apply for a clean break order and that would prevent her from being able to lay claim to your pension or any assets you have, or will have in the future. This doesn't extend to child maintenance though.
Sorry, yes, Mojo is correct as far as I know - my comment was what can happen if there isn't a financial settlement - you can apply for a clean break and that is final assuming everything is declared correctly at the time of applying.
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