Our highly regarded Family Department goes from strength to strength. 

We advise on all the traditional problems arising from family breakdown, and also have expertise in newer areas such as pre-nuptial and civil partnership agreements, and recent developments in problem solving such as collaborative law. We also offer expertise from our Property, Company & Commercial and Private Client Departments for help with specialist problems related to matrimonial breakdown. Most of our clients come to us by personal recommendation from others who have found our approach invaluable. We work hard to keep the emotion out of a very emotional process for clients whilst retaining understanding and sensitivity.

Our expertise includes help with the following:-

• Divorce: ending the marriage or civil partnership
• Finance including the family home
• Protecting family businesses and trusts
• International divorce including choosing the right jurisdiction and advising non-domicile clients (we are members of the firm’s Offshore Client Group).
• Tracing overseas assets
• Offshore trusts and rights and obligations of trustees
• Worldwide freezing orders
• Maintenance claims on salaries, commissions and bonuses
• The Child Maintenance Enforcement Commission (formerly CSA)
• Pre-nuptial - and post-nuptial agreements
• Cohabitation agreements and advice following breakdown of relationships
• Arrangements and disputes involving children including moves overseas, education and religion
• Pension sharing
• Family mediation
• Collaborative law
• Fathers’ rights and responsibilities

Two partners lead our Family Department. Both are accredited mediators, collaborative lawyers and members of the Law Society’s Advanced Family Law Panel.

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