Good Divorce Week 2025: Achieving Amicable Divorce
13th November, 2025
Divorce can be one of life's most challenging experiences. Even when both parties are amicable, traditional divorce processes can strain relationships, leaving everyone involved emotionally and financially drained. But it doesn't have to be that way.
This week marks Good Divorce Week 2025, a campaign run by Resolution which is designed to encourage less confrontational approaches to divorce and separation, and focus on limiting conflict for everyone involved. Good Divorce Week plays a key role in encouraging an amicable divorce.
The theme of this year’s campaign is “Year of the Code”, emphasising Resolution’s Code of Practice, a framework which guides family lawyers to assist with reducing conflict, prioritising supporting children through a divorce, and encouraging effective alternatives to court proceedings, like mediation.
At Ward Hadaway, our divorce solicitors are expertly trained to deal with all aspects of the divorce process.. Recently, our One Lawyer, Resolution Together service launched to support couples who are committed to reaching an amicable divorce, helping you navigate separation with clarity and confidence thereby reducing conflict, protecting relationships and making space for a fresh start, amicably.
What is an amicable divorce?
In an amicable divorce, couples will work together to sort important issues like finances, child arrangements and selling your house after a divorce. A cooperative approach means that conflict is reduced, handling emotional burnout during a divorce is less likely, and court proceedings are unnecessary.
Because of these factors, an amicable divorce is more cost-effective – due to the lack of court proceedings – and comes with a faster resolution for both parties and other family members, as well as reducing stress and promoting a better long-term relationship, which can be extremely beneficial if you and your ex-spouse are considering co-parenting and shared care or navigating divorce with neurodiverse children.
Good Divorce Week is held annually to remind couples that there is a better way to divorce, and not every separation needs to be accompanied by hostility or conflict. By promoting a child-first approach, through reduced conflict and limited court proceedings, Good Divorce Week helps couples set themselves up for a less stressful divorce.
Ward Hadaway’s divorce solicitors can provide you with various tips for an amicable divorce and support you with the legal advice you need to ensure the divorce process is smooth and the result is as anticipated. From divorces and mortgages to understanding your assets and the impact of divorce, our divorce solicitors are family law experts who are here to support you during this life-changing period.
What does a “good divorce” look like?
A good divorce can look different for every couple. However, “good” divorces are often ones that prioritise and protect the mental health and wellbeing of everyone involved, including children and allow both parties to move forward in a healthy way because of the focus on constructive and collaborative problem-solving and communication.
A collaborative divorce is a formal, legally structured framework which can support you in reaching an amicable divorce. Designed to help couples reach an agreement about your divorce – including dealing with pensions, the family home and child arrangements – a collaborative divorce keeps legal matters outside of court and quickens the process.
By working with one of Ward Hadaway’s expert divorce solicitors to support an amicable divorce, you can be assured that you will be assisted with everything you need, from information on a no fault divorce and support with providing for adult children in divorce.
How can couples achieve an amicable divorce?
By following a more collaborative divorce process and through working with divorce solicitors who are specialists in this area of family law, you and your partner can achieve an amicable divorce. There are several key factors to consider and implement when working towards achieving an amicable divorce.
Open communication
During the divorce process, open communication is key if you and your partner are hoping to achieve an amicable divorce for yourselves, your children and your family.
By fostering open communication, you can build trust and transparency for the whole process and feel comfortable to provide full disclosure between you and your partner, as well as preventing any misunderstandings of each other’s wishes. Also, open communication can help with reducing emotional strain and managing emotions, facilitating constructive negotiation and compromise and most importantly, prioritising the wellbeing of your children and other dependents.
Mutual respect
An important way to ensure cooperation, mutual respect is achieved through open communication, the ability to share your wishes for the future comfortably and trusting one another to be fair during the divorce process.
Since you no longer need a reason to get divorced, other than that the marriage has broken down irretrievably, it is crucial that you and your partner can agree on the terms and expectations of one another once you are no longer married. Building this mutual respect allows a safe and productive environment to encourage those difficult conversations to be tackled calmly, enables comfortable communication which helps to validate your feelings and focuses on the solutions, but also protects your children through ensuring a strong co-parenting relationship is maintained. Not only does this support mental health and limit the effects of divorce on children, but it also builds a foundation for you both to move forward as parents, with co-parenting and shared care responsibilities.
Use of Non Court Dispute Resolution (NCDR)
At Ward Hadaway, our specialist lawyers can support you with an out-of-court alternative to dispute resolution. Non-Court Dispute Resolution (NCDR) in family law refers to the methods of resolving disputes of separating couples outside the mainstream process of court. The different types include a few of the folllowing:
How Ward Hadaway’s divorce solicitors can help you reach an amicable divorce
This Good Divorce Week, it is important to remind yourself that it is possible to achieve an amicable divorce which can support you, your partner and your family.
Reaching an amicable divorce with your partner can support you during the divorce process, but also when you begin rebuilding your life post-divorce.
At Ward Hadaway, we understand that any type of divorce is an extremely challenging time with often life-changing outcomes. Our divorce solicitors are experts in their field of family law and are prepared to support you throughout this difficult time to ensure you feel ready to deal with any legal proceedings and prepared to move on with your life.
Please note that this briefing is designed to be informative, not advisory and represents our understanding of English law and practice as at the date indicated. We would always recommend that you should seek specific guidance on any particular legal issue.
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