This L.I.P website is a free guide dedicated to a litigant in person – a person involved in court proceedings and is not represented by a solicitor or barrister – so they can navigate the British divorce court system.

However, there are other situations that must be discussed in this website that do not involve divorce but are relevant. 

BOX 1 – How to protect yourself if you are an unmarried couple.

BOX 2 – How to legally separate if you are a married couple but you do not want to go down the divorce route.

BOX 3 – How to annul a marriage that should not have happened in the first place

BOX 4 – How to protect yourself if you are being forced into a marriage or are already in a forced marriage.