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The Consent Order
In England and Wales you cannot end a marriage quietly.
- ~227 min (estimated)
- 49973 words
- 85 scenes
- 10 branch points
- 5 endings
27 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
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About
Since 6 April 2022 an application for divorce cannot be issued unless the court is satisfied that the parties' financial arrangements have been settled, and a settlement reached in financial remedy proceedings is sealed as a consent order. The money has to be divided in open court, out loud, by two people who are still married while they do it. Ivor Sant, 41, a plate fitter at Immingham Fabrication on the Humber, learns this on a Monday in April, when his wife Nadia, 38, a family solicitor eleven minutes' walk from Hull station, leaves a thirty-one-page draft on the kitchen table at Wrenfield Row and says she will be in until seven. The draft is good work. It is her best work. It sells the house, pays her a lump sum of £312,000, transfers his pension, and at clause 6 attaches a non-molitation order that binds him and binds only him, including a cohabitation provision and a restraint on s
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- Domestic violence that is not reported to the police and never is
- A court finding about a hand on a throat, entered in a public document
- A permanent legal restraint on sexual relations between spouses, agreed to in advance
- Sexual content between adults, with consent stated aloud, in a house that is being emptied
- A professional conduct finding and a partnership put under review
- A judgment and a register entry that are public and permanent
- Institutional procedure shown as the thing that does the damage
- A marriage that continues after a document has ended it
Cast
- I Ivor Sant Plate fitter and rigger at Immingham Fabrication, and the respondent in an application for a consent order he signs without being asked to explain it no portrait yet
- N Nadia Sant Partner and head of family at Frayne Mowbray, the applicant, and the drafter of the order no portrait yet
- R Rakhi Adjei Independent adviser to the respondent, on the Law Society panel as a family mediator, eleven years no portrait yet
- M Marguerite Osei Supervising partner and head of family at Frayne Mowbray, and the author of the written direction removing the respondent's reasons from the record no portrait yet
- D Devon Pryce Deputy district judge, who reads the order into the record and asks two questions no portrait yet