frequently asked questions

First, this website stands heads up over others on the painful issue of divorce. Well done, wiki!

FAQs are a lot of work to put together, I know, but very useful ... every divorce brings its own set of issues and sometimes it is hard even to formulate the right question. Perhaps, over time, it would be possible to put together some basic Q&As on the different areas touched by relationship breakdown.

This is a shot in the dark. Would anyone else welcome FAQs?

Yours aye

livewire

Good idea but......

Every question which arises on wiki has been asked countless times before. The wiki peeps going through divorce want to ask the questions and have an answer personal to their set of circumstances so that they are sure that what they have read elsewhere applies to them, rather than a stock answer contained in FAQs....hence so far, no set of FAQs.

Amanda

Your response most valid, Amanda. I based the suggestion on a google search for wikivorce... clever name and busy site so it gets top billing. Increasingly, the first contact with any sort of formal or legal action will be this site. I would not suggest complicated questions, just the basic simple stuff.

Wiki already sets out the basics divided into three areas, and that is excellent. However, FAQs can serve a purpose in that they order people's thinking. The first days of relationship breakdown tend to have a hurricane Katrina feel to them...

Thank you for such a prompt response

livewire

Livewire

We are only contributors to Wiki but the issue you mention happens very regularly on pensions issues. From our perspective, it is very time consuming to repeat the same answers time after time, which leaves less time for responding to issues that are more specific. Mr Wiki is very aware of the problem and extremely sympathetic, hence the introduction of the Pension Information Centre. Our aim is to populate this with more information that will hopefully be useful to more people. As a piece of inside information (sorry to be stealing your thunder Mr Wiki) I happen to know that a lot of thought has gone into the subject of making the posts searchable, which if implemented will go some way to following your thoughts.

I do sympathise with Amanda; more of the pensions questions are about generic issues, which lend themselves to the FAQ approach, the legal issues around divorce is not so simple, otherwise computers would replace all the wonderful lawyers. What a waste that would be!

Peter.

Amanda is right that no two people's circumstances are the same and that's why anyone would be stupid to rely on a FAQ and not to contact a solicitor to discuss specifics.

However, I'd like to be able to ask amanda's firm sensible questions when I ring through based on having thought about my question a bit first.

Some of Amanda answers to very good questions are excellent and do contain enough general info to help people like me who only finally agreed to start the divorce process last night with an idea of what's going on / what might happen. Unfortunately, the answers are well and truly burried under a mountain of new posts.

Would it be possible for some of the really good "general priciples" answers to get posted into the wiki - we could search it by subject that way - maybe even more the wiki from the resource menu to the community menu too.

The gen on this site is becoming as lost as that provebal needle in a haystack !