Costs order for financial proceedings

Question of procedure.

I had thought we''d be going through the full gamut of FA/FDR/FH with a court-imposed settlement, but STBX is currently seeing sense and it''s possible we could agree a Consent Order ahead of the court hearings (and therefore present it to court for approval).

Is a costs order separate to the consent order?

At what point do I ask the court to consider a costs order, which document does it go into (e.g. is it the Statement of Issues)?

Your way off the mark, costs orders are rare and only happen due to litigant misconduct in AR, if you agree there will be no costs order, even if you don''t and go through court costs tend to be reserved for FH, even then rarely awarded.

But ...

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Scrub that. I worked out what you were saying. That means I''ve got a solicitors bill, caused by the STBX shenanigans when we were doing this under Scottish law, which I can''t force him to pay for.

Sadly it does silver, unless of course your ex agrees to pay, consent orders are consensual agreements and most end with "there be no order as to costs" or similar.

Sometimes though its worth it just for it to be over and done with.

Ah well. There is a negotiable (monetary) element to the settlement so I''ll try and wrangle it into there.