{"id":30,"date":"2026-08-29T11:48:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/2026\/08\/29\/what-to-prepare-before-your-first-divorce-consultation\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T11:48:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T11:48:50","slug":"what-to-prepare-before-your-first-divorce-consultation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/2026\/08\/29\/what-to-prepare-before-your-first-divorce-consultation\/","title":{"rendered":"What to prepare before your first divorce consultation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A first family-law consultation is far more useful when you arrive with the basics in hand. Here is the short list we send to every new client.<\/p>\n<h2>Documents<\/h2>\n<p>Marriage certificate, recent payslips or accounts for both parties if you have them, mortgage or tenancy documents, and any correspondence already exchanged \u2014 including messages.<\/p>\n<h2>A timeline<\/h2>\n<p>One page, in date order: when you married, when you separated, who moved out, and any incident that may be relevant. Dates matter more than detail at this stage.<\/p>\n<h2>Your questions, written down<\/h2>\n<p>People forget half of what they meant to ask. Bring the list. There is no question in a first consultation that is too small to ask.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A first family-law consultation is far more useful when you arrive with the basics in hand. Here is the short list we send to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-family-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scintillawpthemes.com\/demo\/swp-advocate-pro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}