What powers do the courts have?

The courts have wide ranging powers to assist with protecting your assets, including:

• An order to provide information about the location of property or assets.
• The High Court can freeze bank accounts and limit your spouse’s ability to deal with assets within or outside the UK.
• The court can reverse transfers that have already happened, for example if your spouse has sold a property without your consent or moved money to a third party.
• A search order can be made if you need to enter your spouse’s property to search and retain evidence that may be destroyed or disposed of.
• The court can seize your spouse’s passport to stop them leaving the country and avoiding compliance with an order or removing assets.
• An order can be made to detain or preserve property, to be inspected, to take samples from or to be sold.
• The payment of income from a property until an application has been decided.
• An order to disclose documents