Family Law

Our Family Law Solicitor Charley Kelly has become a new committee member for Resolution Leicestershire.

As some counties head into the Easter school break, our latest Child Care blog has advice on how divorced or separated parents can plan ahead to ensure smooth co-parenting during the school holidays.

Having gone through the cost, emotional stress and what can be a lengthy process to obtain a Final Order in respect of your finances following the breakdown of your relationship, the last situation you would wish to find yourself in is for your ex-partner to now not be complying with the terms of the sealed Order. In that situation what happens next and what are your options to find a resolution to get what you are legally entitled to?

Having a legal agreement such as a prenuptial, post nuptial or cohabitation agreement in place might not sound like the most romantic way of ensuring that your relationship goes the distance. However, having such an agreement in place is a practical approach and provides greater certainty of your financial outcomes if the relationship or marriage comes to an end.

For some people, domestic abuse is a daily occurrence in their relationships. In our latest blog, Skyler Broadhead, Senior Paralegal, explores how you, or someone you know, can obtain protection following the breakdown of a relationship involving domestic abuse, or help from fleeing such a relationship, and the protective measures which can be put in place by the Court.

If you have a farm and are going through a divorce you may be concerned about how your divorce settlement will deal with the farm and how it could impact your business and livelihood as a whole. This blog explores how farms in an agricultural divorce are treated, what makes them particularly unique, and how you could possibly protect your farm in a divorce.

A pre-nuptial agreement can be a useful document to draw up in advance of getting married or entering into a civil partnership to offer protection and some certainty if you were to divorce.

If you are experiencing a family law matter, you may be able to get help to pay for legal costs in the form of Legal Aid.

Our latest Child Care blog explains what Legal Aid is, the circumstances in which you are eligible and the information required to apply for Legal Aid.

Our latest Family Law blog by partner Paul Cobb discusses the importance of making a Financial Order to sever all financial ties upon divorce, and the repercussions of not doing so.

On 6th April 2022 changes to divorce legislation will come into effect, allowing people to divorce without fault.

From this date, couples who wish to divorce will no longer need to prove that one side is to blame for the breakdown of the marriage due to, for example, adultery or unreasonable behaviour, but they will simply need to provide a statement of irretrievable breakdown of the marriage or civil partnership to obtain a divorce, dissolution of a civil partnership or a judicial separation.

The new reforms will also allow couples to make joint applications for divorce, dissolution and separation and remove the ability to defend the decision to divorce.