When you’re getting divorced and your ex-wife vacates the property you’ll still have a problem with your post. You see, she still has a legal right to enter the property so if you change the locks she can simply break in, or have a locksmith enter the house for her.

This means, as I’ve found to my cost, that any post you have delivered to your home may not necessarily be there when you get home. If you have bank statements, mortgage documents or more importantly solicitor’s letters you’ll need to have them delivered to an alternative address.

You can always use the redirection service on offer from Royal Mail and have all of your correspondence redirected somewhere. I’d suggest a friend, sibling or parent’s address.

If you don’t do this, you could find that important documents (or in my case, money) goes missing as your post is intercepted by your ex when she enters the house while you are out of the building.

Clive Bellmore