Wikivorce
Wikivorce was created by Ian Rispin, a man going through separation and divorce who couldn't accept that divorce needed to be quite so confusing, so damn difficult, deeply painful and horribly expensive.
“When I entered the wonderful world of divorce I found it to be a confusing and scary place where people spoke a goobledegook language and advice was either hard to come by or very expensive. This was a great challenge at a time when my life was in turmoil. I saw a solicitor, so did my ex. The court process began and the letters started to fly back and forth. After just a few months my ex and I between us had spent close to 8,000 pounds, and I soon realised that the whole thing could take a year or more and we just couldn't afford to spend money at this rate at a time when our finances were so precarious.
I searched the web and found quite a few sites, but the information they provided seemed incomplete and I still didn't get it. I started asking questions on forums and found that some friendly and experienced people answered some of my questions. But I still only had a few bits and pieces of the puzzle, and with court dates coming up fast and experienced solicitors fighting my ex's corner I felt totally ill prepared. Surely I was not the first one to feel so adrift. There must be thousands of people thrown into this turmoil each year with no obvious source of affordable support.
That is when I decided I was going to make something good out of a bad situation. I was going to do something. I would create a website where you could find everything you needed to get you through this process. And so around 6 weeks later Wikivorce was born on the 21st March 2007.”
Ian Rispin - founder, Wikivorce
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