Divorce & children matters

When you have to deal with family legal issues, you'll appreciate the straight talking and honest approach of our family law team – as well as their total discretion and sensitivity.

You’ll also welcome the practical, pragmatic advice you’ll receive and the steely determination of our team. It's an attitude that ensures the best protection all round – in every area, from relationship breakdown to pre-marital agreements.

If litigation becomes necessary, our family team will respond with speed and efficiency. We understand that the court process can seem difficult and strange – which is why we always provide robust and sensible representation for our clients.

In family law, the human touch is always essential – and we aim to give you solutions that make real, practical sense. If any external expertise is needed, you can be sure we'll only ever use the most highly ranked and respected professionals. So you are always guaranteed the highest level of representation.

We advise on:

  • Children – advice on parenting issues including residence and contact, parental responsibility, child support, removal from jurisdiction, abduction, and all matters arising.
  • Divorce and relationship breakdown – sensible and pragmatic advice delivered in an honest and practical way.
    International family law – expert advice in what is a complex and specialised area of law.
  • Money and property – from limited and simple disputes to complex and high value claims. Our team, known for its attention to detail, excels in this particular field.
  • Pre and post marital agreements - based upon our family team’s wide experience we are able to provide competent and robust advice in relation to both domestic and international pre and post marital agreements – always mitigating, for our clients, the risk of relationship breakdown.
  • Civil partnerships – comprehensive understanding of issues for same sex couples.

The 2011 edition of legal directory Legal 500 describes the team as providing "a prompt, methodical and economic service to clients".

According to the 2012 issue of Chambers the family team "maintains its solid reputation having increased in size recently. Sources praise its high profile private children work, as well as its ability to handle complex matrimonial cases with international finance elements. It has also recently experienced an increase in instructions from well-known sports personalities".