Why Can't I Get A Straight Answer?

Parties going through a divorce are prone to ask the perfectly reasonable question - "What will I get?"  Unfortunately for the clients and divorce lawyers, there invariably isn't such a straight answer, which should encourage alternative forms of resolving your disputes, before you let the Courts make the decision for you.

Part of the reason it is difficult to predict what happens in the divorce Courts is because family Judges have a far broader discretion than many other areas of the law.  You will hear the case being described in the Law Reports as having 'been judged on its own facts' - because the reality is that the boundaries within which a predictable divorce settlement falls, are much wider than in other areas of civil litigation.