Financial tools and resources

What resources are available to help me work out my financial situation on divorce?

In addition to the legal and emotional challenges you will be faced with when considering divorce or separation, figuring out your finances can be a very daunting task. The below links provide a range of information and practical tools to help you assess your financial situation, find out what support you and your children are entitled to and prepare your financial case.

Child maintenance
- Child Support Agency
  Part of the Department for Work and Pensions, responsible for making sure that parents who live apart from their children contribute financially by paying child maintenance.
Expenditure and debts
- Credit card calculator
  A tool to help you calculate how long it will take to pay back credit card debt and how much you will need to repay each month.
- Cut-back calculator
  Helps you to see where you can make savings on things you buy regularly.
- Debt test
  Tells you how you might appear to a lender, looking at your current borrowing, and gives you tips about how to cope with your debts if you are in trouble.
General financial
- Bank of England
  Details of the current bank rate and current inflation.
- Financial Times
  Share and market information.
- Interactive Investor
  A guide to savings on a broad basis.
Housing and mortgages
- Land registry
  A site where you can get details of property ownership, which are helpful to attach to your form E.
- AskMe Q&A: Local information
  An online property community where you can get information about different neighbourhoods from residents and experts.
Incomes
- Retail prices index full table
  Provided by the Office for National Statistics.
Motoring
- Car buyer's guide
  A car buyer’s guide providing information on over 40,000 new and used models.
- Running cost tables
  Showing how much it costs to run your car.
Pensions
- A guide to financial products
  Comprehensive information about financial products.
- Financial advice
  How to find an independent financial adviser.
- Pensions guide
  Information from the Government.
- Pensions made clear
  A pensions calculator and general guidance from the Money Advice Service.
- Pension tracing service
  A database of over 200,000 occupational and personal pension schemes to help trace pensions.
- State pension
  A life expectancy calculator which helps to calculate your life expectancy for maintenance as well as pensions.
- How long will my pension need to last?
  Information on the state pension, with forms to print off.
- A survival guide to pensions on divorce
  Useful resource regarding pensions on divorce.
State benefits
- Child benefit
  Information from HM Revenue & Customs.
- Tax credits
  A guide to the child tax credit and the working tax credit.

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