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MyHMCTS: How to apply online for a divorce or dissolution

Published 2022-04-03Last updated 2026-07-12

This guidance is for the new law divorce services, which includes all applications submitted and issued after 6 April 2022.

Use the MyHMCTS: How to make follow-up applications for a divorce or dissolution guidance for:

  • general applications
  • alternative service applications
  • deemed and dispensed applications
  • conditional order applications

If you are a representing a respondent, use the MyHMCTS: File an acknowledgement of service for a divorce or dissolution application guidance.

Guidance for the old service

Use the MyHMCTS: How to use the online divorce services guidance for applications submitted and issued before 6 April 2022.

Guidance for case administration tasks

Visit MyHMCTS: how to complete case administration tasks for guidance on case administration tasks, such as:

  • sharing a case
  • assigning a case
  • filing a notice of change or acting