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Married but seperating

  • 15-10-2012 02:03PM
    #1
    gazzaman22
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 934 ✭✭✭


    Hi, Need some advice, if anyone can help
    Wife and are thinking of seperating, All amicable, 1 kid, And renting a house ATM,
    To seperate, how long does a seperation take roughly, and when can she file/lodge that she is a single parent?


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  • #2
    Abi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,058 ✭✭✭✭Abi


    You can apply for two different kinds of separation, either a separation agreement or a judicial separation. If you're both in agreement of who keeps what assets, maintenance arrangements, and access to your daughter, then you can get a separation agreement which is the quickest route. If however, there are some elements that you cannot agree on I recommend you go to mediation to try sort it out amongst yourselves if at all possible, as the second kind of separation, the judicial is a more costly and time consuming route.


  • #3
    Equality
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 241 ✭✭Equality


    You both lodge that you are single parents with revenue (to get an extra tax allowance) as soon as one partner moves out of the house. This is only useful if working.

    If the parent who keeps the child needs social welfare, they go to the local office as soon as the other parent moves out. Social welfare will not pay lone parents for the first three months, but during this time the parent can claim for money (supplementary welfare and rent allowance) from the Community Welfare Officer. This is means tested.

    They can also claim FIS, if working and on a low income.


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