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Court fee EX160 remission, am I Single or Couple?

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03 Mar 11 #255202 by Leaf
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I'm about to apply for a divorce, and being low pay I hope to get my fees waived by submitting the EX160. I now live with my new partner.

In Section 2 they ask me to state whether I am a Single person or Part of a Couple. In their guidance notes they say that "If you are a party involved in proceedings for a divorce, dissolution or annulment, you will be assessed as a single person."

Question 1: Does this statement mean that I will still be assessed as a single person even if I live with my new partner?

Question 2: If I am to be assessed as single, should I tick the "Single" box in the form, or should I tick the "Couple" box and let whoever reads the form make the assessment of me as a Single when they see I am applying for a divorce?

Question 3: If I have to tick the "Couple" box, do I still need to provide my partner's income in Section 4, even though they are going to make the assessment of me as a single, in effect ignoring any information I provide about my partner?

Hope this doesn't sound too complicated :S- if only whoever wrote the guidance had made it a little bit clearer...

Thanks to anyone who cares to answer!

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04 Mar 11 #255250 by dukey
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You are part of a couple as you now live with a new partner though this is not to say you will not receive part or full fee remission, much depends on your monthly disposable income, i think ex160b is a table showing a sliding scale of fee remission check it out on HMCS.

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