Caroline Holley: Safeguarding clients' finances during a lockdown divorce

Stuck together

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Lockdown may have been the straw that broke the camel's back for some couples heading towards divorce proceedings. Here Caroline Holley outlines a series of tips for advisers who are helping clients navigate ending a marriage during unusual times...

It has now been more than a year since Boris Johnson first announced that we were to "stay at home" and we are finally seeing the gradual lifting of restrictions. Those restrictions imposed over the past year have placed couples under huge pressure and, sadly, for some that has resulted in the end of their relationship. For those couples for whom separation has become inevitable, their advisers can help guide them towards a constructive solution using the following steps. Consider counselling  Counselling can help determine whether a marriage is really at an end, or whether a rec...

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