Hi MK,
I will list everything that we put in our court bundle ready for the fdr, but some of it has been updated because we went to a final hearing, (we are self representing also) hope it helps......................
On the first page should be an index paginated with all contents.
A page with facts and issues disputed and agreed.
A case summary
A schedule of assets and debts (include things like income)
(for both parties, you can get the info off her
form E)
A Chronology of all relevant dates i.e when u were born kids, ex wife, date of marriage, ect ect.
A short narrative statement.
All offers from both parties. (With or without prejudice)(You have to take these out after FDR for final hearing if it gets that far.)
Any correspondence between her solicitors that you feel you need to include.( especially any lies she has told, if you can back them up)
Then all proof of debts, i.e mortgage, loans ect.
Any previous orders from the Court you feel are relevant.
And finally all questions and answers you may of had from the
form Es you submitted.
Anything really that you feel helps you in any way shape or form.
One thing i will say though and you may of read in other posts.....
In our case the other parties solictor wrote to us (mind you this was for the final hearing) and said the Judge likes to work from one bundle, so they asked us what we wanted adding to theirs, we wrote back and gave them a list of all we wanted including. (they sent us a list of everything they were including) we spent hours going through all the documents they were putting in their bundle. Anyway when we finally received the bundle from them, it was on a saturday morning (it should of been filed at court 7 days before) and the final hearing was the following Tuesday morning. They never included one item we asked them too. So it was a good job we had filed our own 7 days before. As it turns out the Judge referred to ours all the way through the hearing as ours was spot on with pagination, easy to find exactly what was needed, and all backed up with documentary evidence.
Please dont accept what i have put verbatum as you may need to add other things, that we didnt need too, its just a guide as to what we made our bundle out of.
Anyway good luck and keep your chin up, i know how you are feeling at all the amount of paperwork you have to deal with, but it hopefully will pay of in the end for you.
Another thing whilst i remember, dont expect too much at the FDR, they expect you to come to an agreement between yourselves. The judge will tell you from what information they have in front of them what they think the likely outcome will be if it goes to a final hearing. At the Fdr my husband went to, the Judge never even read our or the other parties bundle. It was only at the Final hearing we finally had a Judge who had read it cover to cover and knew exactly what we had been trying to say for the past two years.
Kind regards
Louise.
P.S. please feel free to ask for any advice i may be able to help with.
P.P.S... As for the
form E's, we didnt put them in the bundle but we took copies of them in another file so we could refer to them if need be.
Post edited by: Louise11, at: 2007/05/27 18:20<br><br>Post edited by: Louise11, at: 2007/05/27 18:24