Hi Alison, I don't know anyone who has done this but I am sure it can be done. Why are you thinking this ? I know at times I did not like what my solicitor told me but I felt she knew her stuff.I must have drove her mad with my stalling, not returning forms etc but I was an emotional wreck. I felt she was too clinical and couldn't see the glaringly obvious that I was a loyal and faithful wife and my husband was having an affair!!! I guess looking back it wouldn't have got us very far if she had been emotional or moralistic. They need to be calm and detached. In the end I didn't get as much as some people I knew but I got what was fair and it didn't cost me as much as those who went to court and fought over everything. Changing a legal separation to a D was fairly simple. Good luck.