In any legal dispute you should not take any drastic step without first obtaining legal advice as your actions are likely to have a significant effect on the determination of your legal rights and obligations. As bad as your situation maybe, moving out of the home may make it impossible for you to ever re-enter the home. An agreement for one spouse to move out of the home can often be used as leverage to obtain other interim agreements such as parenting time with children or interim responsibility for various household bills.
Similarly unilaterally deciding to stop contributing to household bills or to cut off services to the home such as cable, hydro, telephone, gas etc can be a decision that causes significant blow back if the matter proceeds to court. Judges will often be very upset with a party who takes such unilateral actions and will be more sympathetic to the “innocent” party in determine interim issues such as occupation of the home , financial support obligations, etc.
It is vital in every family law dispute that you obtain legal advice before you take any action which may affect your rights and obligations. Even voluntarily paying various bills or providing financial support to your spouse, without first obtains legal advice can come back to haunt you as such voluntary pavements may serve as independent evidence of your ability to afford to pay a certain level of financial support going long into the future.
If you set up your free initial consultation with one of our Surrey Divorce lawyers, we will be able to provide you with a typical range of time required to resolve your particular type of dispute.