how do you work out how to split house contents in divorce?

I'd make him sell everything and then share the cash, that way you he gets to feel the hammer fall too.

Is the house an asset too?

You could look online or in private ads to find similar items and gain an idea of prices, but asking prices in a collapsed market can be way lower than expected.

make sure all the assets are "declared", needless to say his "personal" items may be of far greater value than yours.. but living together you would have paid together and felt the pinch together, so technically half of that is yours as well.

If you are looking for a cash value and you get the courts involved they will likely order everything sold and the money split. Generally anything that was owed before the marriage , is returned to the individual that owned it. You can always hire an appraiser to come in and give a rough estimate of the value but then he will also get a cut of that total. Furniture is one of those things that depreciates in value to about half if it is over a year old. You can check the web sites for organizations like the Salvation Army and such. These will give yo a pretty good idea what value the government would allow you to place on your goods.

A lot of sense has been said but let me just throw something else into the mix - emotional attachment.

It sounds easy to just work out the value of everything and then split it but before you go there consider things around the house that you might have an emotional attachment to.

This friends or parents bought you, specific things that you really like, sentimental items and in particular those things where you may both want.

These items need to be listed and a fair compromise come to, there will be somethings you will have to let go of so you can get another that's more important.

I mention this because i know of massive battles that have happened between couples over the most stupid things, and it has been a catalyst for the whole divorce to become nastly and bitter.

The worst area? Pets!

HUGE fights over cats, dogs, hamsters, anything that's alive should be your starting point.

Be prepared to go into this looking to compromise, to be fair and not just to demand what you want.

Be careful. We split everything down the middle but when I looked at my share of the Beano annuals, all the crosswords and the join up the dots puzzles had been done.

You have to jointly decide on a value if you had to replace the stuff, as you will since you want cash.

you agree to a value of the big things like the cars and furniture and the dog and the rest will work itself out as you go through the things youve built over your life together somethings will be important enoughto put a price tag on how about you split the big stuff evenly then donate the rest im sure odds and ends from your home would really brighten someones home like it did yours for so many years sniff!

If it were me I'd rather sleep on a dirty pillow under the bridge than to get in a scrap over used furniture that is plagued with ill memories.

when i had this situation, i listened to my solicitor

who gave me very good advice

based on his history

of watching warring couples split

over many years

and for that reason

i used an older solicitor

i figured they'd seen a lot and could help me that way

ask yours?

good or bad spilt? personally i would wait til he goes out and have a huge garden sale. sellthe heap and give him half.

ask the solicitor to give u an idea how to do it, each circumstance is different. you may even find he wants to give u half to sell or sell it all himself

Pendy, use some punctuation!