Your Guide to Divorce & Family Law

In this section of our website, you'll find links to some helpful guides which deal with topics our divorce and family law clients most commonly ask our solicitors about.

Of course, every divorce is different, and there is no substitute for professional advice from a solicitor, but we hope that the information provided will answer some of the many questions you have about the divorce process and issues that arise from divorce and relationship breakdown.

• Divorce: the basics
• Dissolution of civil partnership: the basics
• The Divorce Process
• Living together - your rights
• Who gets the house? - Finances & Property
• Children and relationship breakdown
• Child maintenance: a guide to recent developments
• Parental Responsibiity: your guide
• Changing a child's name
• Domestic Abuse
• Protection from Domestic Abuse - Non-Molestation Orders and Occupation Orders
• Family Mediation

If you're going through a break-up, or are thinking about divorce or separation, the chances are that at some point you'll need to take legal advice from a family lawyer.

You may be concerned about how you and your ex-partner will agree on financial matters. If you have children, you may be worrying about how you will agree on where they will live and what the contact arrangements will be. If you are going through a split but are not married, you may be unsure about your rights and responsibilities.

A family solicitor can advise you on all of these issues, as well as helping you to work through the process of actually getting divorced. Whether your split is amicable, or there are disputes over finances or children, our family lawyers have the knowledge and experience to help you through it.

Do you need advice about a family law matter?

If any of the issues covered in our guides affect you and you would like to talk, in confidence, to one of our family law specialists, call us on 0800 422 0243 or complete our contact form and we will call you back.