The breakdown of a marriage or of a partnership can be an upsetting and stressful time. A family law solicitor can help resolve the financial and property disputes that may arise from separating.
Our family law team can advise you on your finance and property disputes no matter your situation, and help secure the best deal for you and your family using means to help restore stability for your family through mediation and ancillary relief where possible.
Finances and property are two of the most pertinent questions on the minds of any divorcing couple. Where will we each live? Who gets the house? Who gets what assets, and how will finances be split? It is the job of our family law solicitors to understand your particular situation, needs, and goals, and fight in your corner to meet those needs and goals.
While it is linked to your divorce, it is important to remember that finance and property disputes are treated separately to the divorce process and can only be started after the Decree Nisi has been issued. This means a number of things, mainly that the details of the divorce are not taken into account such as adultery or bad behaviour.
A financial order means that the case is heard in Court to decide how assets are to be split. Note that will will have needed to attempt to resolve this through mediation first either through solicitors or mediators. The financial order would then take effect once the divorce is finalised with the Decree Absolute.
Remember that the Court will not look to assign based on behaviours, but rather what is fair in the eyes of the marriage before the divorce, the futures of everyone involved, as well as upholding property law.
Our family law team in Birmingham and Nottingham understand that divorce is a confusing time for you, and therefore there is a real need to keep things clear and to keep you in control of what’s happening.
With that in mind we offer clients:
Family law matters are worked on and supervised by a qualified solicitor (LPC) with 6 years experience practising family law, having worked on over 250 family law cases in that time, including on matters of contested and complex family law disputes, such as children disputes and matrimonial finances. Work is also undertaken with the support of a legal assistant (currently undertaking LPC) with over 2 years experience.
Prices shown are for those who fall under Band A (where joint gross assets are valued at less than £450,000). Band B are for clients whose joint gross assets are valued between £450,000 and £800,000. For clients whose joint gross assets exceed this, a price will be given to you upon application.
Time spent on your matter is calculated in units. Court hearings, appearances, meetings and telephone calls are timed and recorded in six-minute units. Emails and letters sent and received are recorded as one unit each. Work done in excess of the time will be charged at the solicitor’s hourly rate, or an agreed fixed fee. We will inform you if that is to be the case, however we do not expect to exceed the time periods expressed. If we are required to travel further than 10 miles or 30 minutes from our offices to any court appointment or meeting, we will charge reasonable travel expenses at 45p per mile plus time at our fixed-fee hourly rate. If it is more cost-effective, we may recommend that a barrister represents you in court, but this will only be suggested if it is felt most appropriate.
In most cases, we recommend that those heading to trial or a final hearing seek the services of a barrister to represent you in court. Our trial/final hearing service includes commissioning a barrister but not their fees for attending a conference or the court hearing. These would be communicated to you before commissioning so that you are kept aware of the costs involved, and in control of your matter.
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