Family

Overview

With the focus always on quality client care, our family lawyers provide guidance and support through all stages of your legal transaction in order to ensure the process is as smooth possible.

We are only too aware that the breakdown of a relationship can be one of the most traumatic periods of a person’s life. It is nearly always accompanied by anguish and often argument, especially if there are children involved, so it is therefore essential that you get sound legal advice as quickly as possible.  The Team adopts a sympathetic and supportive approach with the emphasis on providing a satisfactory outcome as quickly as practicable for you and all others concerned.

All matters are handled with sensitivity and tact, in a constructive, cost-conscious way. We make it our business to keep negotiations as amicable as possible, always working towards a swift and civilised conclusion for you.

The Family Team is recognised as one of the leading Family Law advisors in the region and Head of Department, Anne Thomson, has a national reputation as a leader in her field.  

Our Family Solicitors specialise in:

• Adoption
• Child Care
• Children’s Residence and Contact
• Civil Partnerships
• Cohabitee Rights
• Finance, Property and Pension Arrangements
• Pre-nuptial Agreements
• Separation and Divorce

The Family Department is recommended in the 2011 Legal 500 Directory.