Family Law Solicitors

Finding the right family law solicitor

While you may come across a number of different family law issues in your lifetime, between getting married and having children, it’s quite likely that you can navigate these areas of law without a family law solicitor.

Having a solicitor to help you would be helpful of course, but a lot of these tasks can be taken care of with care and some family law information.

As a result, the bulk of cases that a family law solicitor will be called upon to handle will likely concern divorce and separation, the proceedings of which are all too frequently fraught with strife and animosity.

Divorce solicitors

When two partners in a marriage battle in court over a divorce, the most commonly disputed issues boil down thusly:

• division of financial assets, including ownership of property and financial maintenance for the other partner;
• children, if there are any, and the custody and visitation rights afforded to each partner.

It is not uncommon for these issues to cause divorce proceedings to grind to a halt, potentially resulting in years of years of expensive and emotionally crippling battle, from which no family member will emerge unscathed.

Fortunately, if you are determined to avoid such difficulty, there is another way to carry out your divorce.

Divorce mediation

Mediation is an alternative to traditional divorce proceedings. In mediation, a single solicitor acts as an unbiased third party to help both partners come to an amiable agreement regarding their divorce.

This method is likely to be preferable for a number of reasons. It is easier, far less expensive, and while both parties may find that they have to compromise, it can prevent an ugly court battle from breaking out.

Other family law solicitor tasks

Family law solicitors can be called upon to act in other situations, such as establishing cohabitation rights, and acting to provide protection for a partner when they are threatened with domestic violence or abuse.

Regardless of your family law issue, if you feel the help of a family law solicitor is needed, don’t hesitate to act. Try our Find a Solicitor service today.

The ins and outs of cohabitation

Cohabitation is when two people are living together for an extended period of time. Usually with cohabitation, it is between two people in an intimate relationship. Cohabitation usually refers to couples that live together and are not married.

Marriage and matrimony laws

Marriage is the legal union of two people who want to share in all aspects of their lives together. For most couples who want to stay together marriage is the best option, as it is the only way that the law will officially recognise their relationship and afford them the benefits of this.

Help with domestic violence

Domestic violence affects households all over the UK. As well as physical abuse the definition of domestic violence has been stretched to include “any form of physical, sexual or emotional abuse which takes place within the context of a close relationship”.