Family, Marriage & Relationships

The breakdown of a relationship can be one of the most traumatic periods of anyone's life. Naturally, you will be concerned about your current financial and property arrangements and how it will affect any children you may have.

Our Family Team advises and represents clients in all types of family matters including divorce, breakdown of civil partnerships, co-habitee disputes, children and financial disputes. In addition we can advise on pre-nuptial and co-habitation agreements.

We can advise and offer protection to anyone suffering from domestic violence. We can obtain Injunctions and Court Orders relating to the occupation of the family home.

We are used to advising clients in difficult emotional situations. We aim to provide sympathetic personal advice tailored to your individual circumstances and requirements. We offer prompt and practical advice on how to cope with problems and resolve them.

Solving family law problems often involves many other aspects of the law. Our Family Team can call on the expertise of other departments within the firm, whenever necessary, to advise.

We have experience in advising and representing clients with substantial and more modest assets and from all backgrounds, with all types of problems and disputes. Legal help and public funding is available at all three offices. Members of the team are members of the Law Society’s Family Law Panel, 'Resolution' (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association) and the Law Society’s Children Panel.

Marjorie Cakebread is also a collaborative lawyer trained by Resolution, the specialist family lawyers group.  Collaboration is a different approach to resolving family issues by which the parties commit to privately negotiating a settlement rather than using the Court process.