The breakdown of any family or personal relationship is a particularly distressing and emotive time for any individual and children.
We at Hammons solicitors offer bespoke professional legal advice and swift assistance for our clients in a case specific manner in accordance with our client’s needs. We provide tailored advice upon the legal remedies available to clients that can conclude a family dispute in a non-confrontational and civil manner.
We guide clients through their legal disputes and achieve a reasonable resolution and settlement of the difficulties. This firm is committed to providing clear, concise and sympathetic legal advice to clients. We assist clients to navigate complex legal applications and processes to bring the relationship to an end.
Our firm bases our approach to family problems on the assumption that it is in the interests of all involved to try to achieve a settlement by agreement wherever possible to resolve matters before court proceedings are commenced to resolve legal disputes at the earliest opportunity.
We endeavour to encourage clients to utilise family mediation to assist many couples seek the expert advice of a Mediator or solicitor to assist with the negotiations and discussions with their former partner, to achieve a fair settlement to meet their individual future income and housing needs.
However the firm recognise, that in some circumstances a settlement cannot be achieved through family mediation or by negotiation. As soon as this is apparent all avenues have been exhausted the firm believes that Court applications should be made and handled as quickly and effectively as possible
The firm offers a complete service dealing with all aspects of family law:
- Divorce/dissolution of a civil partnership/judicial separation
- Cohabitation disputes for unmarried clients
- Private law child matters in relation to where they live and how much time they spend with an absent parent,
- Specific issue relating to the child’s education, medical issue, name and passport and prohibited steps order preventing a parent from removing a child from your care or the country or changing the child’s surname without your consent.
- Adoption of a child by partners/extended family member or friend.
- Special guardianship orders for extended family members or friend.
- Financial disputes in relation to property, a marriage/civil partnership/cohabiting clients/financial provision for children.
- Pre and post nuptial agreements setting out the terms of a financial settlement in the event of a partnership and or marriage breakdown allowing you to plan and make provision of any financial assets acquired prior to your marriage and any inheritance.
- Injunctions to prevent a partner from inflicting violence on a client and ousting a violent partner from the family home.
- Public Law children legal advice and assistance in relation to child protection plans/conference and pre-proceedings meetings.
- Care proceedings advising parents, family members when the local authority remove your child from your care.
- Assisting venerable parents with learning difficulties in dispute with the local authority relating to the care of their children.
- We offer Legal aid funded by the government agency the Legal Aid Agency for all types of family matters.
- Referrals to Family mediation.
Contact our Family Department to book a consultation by either telephoning the office on 02476 448585 or email [email protected] or for assistance upon any family matter.