Jargonbuster - Clean Break

A clean break means ending the financial ties between you and your ex-partner (husband, wife or civil partner) as soon as reasonable after your divorce or dissolution. 

Where there is a clean break, there will be no spousal maintenance payments. 

The only way you can guarantee that your ex-partner doesn’t try to make financial claims against you in future is to get a court order. 

The court order must set out the financial arrangements and state that there is to be a clean break.