Our team of Solicitors offer professional, friendly and practical advice. We have extensive experience in providing specialist advice and representation in:

  •  divorce and separation
  •  family and business property
  •  maintenance
  •  arrangements for children following separation 
  •  Child care proceedings including adoption

Collaborative family law is a new approach to resolving the issues which arise from relationship breakdown in a co-operative way.  Couples work with each other and their lawyers at face-to-face meetings to find solutions.  There is agreement at the outset that the court will not be involved.  Experience shows that this process can ease the pain of relationship breakdown and create the best chance of building a brighter future.

Why choose us?
Our family team prides itself in having a number of highly experienced solicitors who are members of specialist accreditation panels set up by the Law Society and Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association). Accreditation is based on experience and ability. A good lawyer will help you through this difficult time in a caring, efficient and cost-effective way.

As well as being good lawyers, the members of our family team are also approachable people, who are sympathetic to the difficulties faced by family clients.

We will vigorously protect your interests in a way which avoids acrimony and confrontation with the other party. We will strive to achieve the best out of court settlement for you. If agreement cannot be reached, we will present your case to the court with meticulous care.

We will always promote the interests of any children of the family.

We will advise you about mediation and other approaches to resolving your problems wherever appropriate.

What will it cost?
We have a franchise from the Legal Services Commission and may well be able to arrange public funding to cover your legal fees.

If you do not qualify for public funding, we will discuss how to finance your legal advice and representation at the first meeting. Your initial half hour appointment is free of charge and without obligation. In every case it is our object to keep costs as low as possible without compromising on quality.

A. Not necessarily. Whilst equal division is often the starting point for the courts saying who should have what, it is not always the case and contribution, length of the marriage, resources of the parties and particularly needs where there are young children, play an important part in departing from equal division. It's rarely straightforward.

A. There is only one ground for divorce and that is that the marriage has broken down irretrievably. You have to prove that by one or more of five facts. Adultery and unreasonable behaviour are two of such facts and the other three facts involve separation of two years or more. So if you have lived apart from your spouse for at least two years and he or she consents to a divorce, you could obtain a divorce.

A. Mediation is a process that enables separating couples - and those who are arguing about children - to come to an understanding with the help of a mediator that brings about a settlement of the issues which the courts can endorse and is then binding on both parties.