Financial Settlement Workbook

For mediators. Nothing you type leaves this computer.
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The room

First names are used throughout and on everything you print; the family names name the saved file and travel to the form builder. Fill this in together — it is the easy part on purpose.

What they own and owe

One line per thing. Enter the whole value even where it is held jointly — who ends up with it is the next column. Whole dollars.

Furniture and contents

Contributions

This is the justification for anything other than 50:50, and it is had before the numbers. Write it the way the Court reads it — who, when, what happened. The agreed wording, in their own terms.

What each of them earns

Gross, per week, before tax. Not a contribution in itself, but the Court reads a difference in earning capacity as one of the things that makes an unequal division just — and it is the first question the tool asks about money.

The agreed split

The only figure to type. Everything below works itself out from it.

Who gets what

The picture a Registrar forms when they read the application. Worth reading aloud.

Other things they agreed

Anything agreed in the room that is not a line above. One line each, written the way it should read in the Heads of Agreement.

These print in the Heads of Agreement under their own heading. They are not sent to the form builder and will not appear in the consent orders.

Heads of Agreement

Assembled from everything above. Correct it upstream rather than here, then print it and hand it over.

One file. Save it if the mediation runs over more than one sitting, and give it to the couple at the end.