When you get divorce, everything is split down the middle (even the car, which usually means someone paying money to keep it). One of the hardest things to divide during divorce is the furniture, as when one person moves out you’ll both need the same furniture to start a new life. Furniture such as dining room furniture, bedroom furniture (like wardrobes and beds) and the sofa and coffee table for the living room.

It can be difficult to compromise with splitting up furniture, as often you’ll have one or two pieces that you bought together and you both want desperately. For example, you may have an antique sleigh bed that cost a few grand and neither of you wants to part with it (though often, you’ll find that neither of you will actually want the former marriage bed). More likely it will be practical furniture that goes missing when your other half moves out, such as a set of pine wardrobes (as happened to me) or that stylish cane dining furniture that was bought from a specialist furniture maker.

Although it can be difficult, it’s often better to let the furniture go in some cases as the cost of arguing over it, both financial cost through solicitors and emotional cost in terms of your health, can be far less than it’s actually worth.

Clive Bellmore