Areas of Law / Divorce and Family

Every year, more than 100,000 marriages in England and Wales end in divorce.

Going through a divorce or separation can be one of the most stressful times of anyone’s life, not only does it affect the relationship itself, but can also affect your family and children, your home and your finances.

Family law, whether it be divorce, separation, gaining access to your children or problems with an ex-partner, will affect many people at some point in their lives. Finding the answers to your situation and knowing what your legal rights are can be daunting. Our free legal advice can help answer some of those questions and help you decide what is right – personally, legally and financially – for you and your family.

Our family law experts can help you with a wide range of free legal advice covering:

  • Child arrangements
  • Child maintenance
  • Civil partnerships
  • Cohabitation agreements
  • Divorce, separation or dissolution
  • Financial settlements
  • Injunctions
  • Parental Responsibility
  • Pre-Nuptial Agreements

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Divorce and Family Questions

Do I have any legal right to custody of my four-month-old son, or only the right to see him? My ex-partner has gone back to live with her mother 15 miles away, and although she says I can see my son at any time I have no transport! She isn’t even looking after him: he’s being cared for by my ex-partner’s family since she has gone back to work full time.

I am getting married again next week. Do I have to tell my ex-husband, and will he still have to pay maintenance for me and the children?

When my son married, his father-in-law gave the couple £35,000 as a down payment on their house. Now they’re having matrimonial difficulties the father is saying the gift was in fact an interest-free loan. Surely if it was a loan it should have been declared on the mortgage application form?

My father’s birth certificate has his names as David John, but my grandmother didn’t like the name David so she called him John. On my parents’ marriage certificate he’s down as John David and he signed it John David. Are my parents legally married?

I divorced my husband six years ago after years of mental and physical abuse. This involved violent assaults, and it has taken me six years to come to terms with it, but I am now prepared to take him to court. Would this be possible? I would have to fund the case myself.

My daughter’s husband left her and their two small children a year ago and is living with another woman. My daughter has filed divorce papers but he has not acknowledged them, and she is told that unless he admits adultery nothing can be done. Is this true?

I divorced seven years ago and we reached an agreement on payments to my ex-wife for the upkeep of the children. Now I have remarried she has contacted the CSA for an increase because my wife is earning. She is also trying to get payments backdated to 2008, even though I have been paying her in cash all these years.

A friend’s wife left him 20 years ago, and was granted maintenance by the courts. He is now 65 and drawing his pension. Does he still have to pay his wife her £14-a-week maintenance? The husband says he’s required to keep up payments until either his wife re-marries or he dies!

When I divorced two years ago the court awarded my wife the house, even though I’d bought it and paid for more than half of it before we were married. The best explanation I could get was that it would reduce my maintenance payments, but I still have to pay £400 a month for my children. Can you shed any light on the court’s decision?

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