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

My husband has left me and has frozen our joint account, so no direct debits or mortgage payments are being made. I’m disabled, eleven years older than my husband, and we have a 16-year-old daughter. Do I have to sell our house in order to give my husband half the equity? I don’t want to move if possible because the house has been specially adapted for me.

Can my younger brother stop me from visiting my mother who is currently in a care home with dementia, if she returns to live back at her old home? He is currently living in my mother’s house, but even though I am not living there, he has recently changed the locks so I cannot visit to check for mail etc. The relationship between me and my brother was never great and has got worse recently, I am really worried that he will do everything possible to prevent me seeing her or visiting her if she does eventually return home, I am pretty sure he does not have POA..

When our son got married three-and-a-half years ago, his in-laws gave them £40,000 as a present to use as a deposit on a home. Our daughter-in-law now says marriage is not for her, the house is to be put on the market and her parents want their money back. Will they get it?

My son is living in a house which he owns and his girlfriend is paying him rent. He also has some capital in shares. I have been told that, if they were to split up after living together for two years she would have a claim on his money. Is this correct?

My ex-wife remarried in September 2007 and my maintenance payments to her should have stopped. Unfortunately my payments were made by attachment of earnings and I wasn’t able to change the order until the following April, by which time she had received £1,000 she wasn’t entitled to. If I’m asked to start paying maintenance for the children again, should either of them go to college, can I refuse?

What age does someone have to be before they can change their name by deed poll? The parents of the girl in question have divorced and her mother is getting married again, and she would like to change her daughters name to that of her new stepfather.

I’’ve been in a relationship for several years with a man who’’s an alcoholic. He has attacked me on several occasions: can I tell him to leave if he attacks me again? I don’’t want to involve the police.

My son has separated from his wife after 20 years. We have put over £45,000 into his (successful) business over the years, and we’re now worried that his wife will be able to claim half of it if they divorce. Their children have now left home, and she has never worked.

I lived with a woman for more than twenty years, and we bought two properties together. We put the deeds in her name to prevent my ex-wife trying to get her hands on them. We have now split up and she is trying to evict me from one of the houses. What are my rights as her common-law husband?

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