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Divorce

Commons · Question 126326 · Tabled 10 Apr 2026 · Ministry of Justice · Official record

Answered 20 Apr 2026

Question

Asked by Jess Brown-Fuller

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if he will undertake a review of the legal management of divorce proceedings; and if he will make it his policy to reform interim financial arrangements to ensure neither party is financially disadvantaged or pla

Answer

Answered by Alex Davies-Jones, 20 Apr 2026

The Government has no plans to undertake a further review of divorce law in respect of the way in which marriages are dissolved. This is because significant reforms were introduced by the Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act (“DDSA”) 2020, which came i...