Our specialist family law solicitors will help you protect what matters to you and secure the future for yourself and your loved ones. Whatever your family structure, planning ahead will help to protect you and your family in the long run. However if you don’t have arrangements in place and your marriage, civil partnership or relationship has broken down, we can advise and support you through this difficult time with patience and compassion.
Clarke Willmott offers family mediation and other out of Court resolution methods as a means of resolving the difficult issues you may be facing when getting divorced, dissolving your civil partnership or separating from your partner.
As more people live or get married abroad, we are often called upon to provide specialist legal advice on a variety of international family law issues.
If you find yourself indirectly involved in someone else’s divorce proceedings or dispute, our family law solicitors can give you expert legal advice you need to protect your interests.
Our multi-disciplinary team has extensive experience of providing expert advice to high growth, small and medium sized family businesses from a range of sectors.
If you live with your partner but are not married or in a civil partnership, our specialist cohabitation solicitors can advise you on reaching a formal agreement that sets out your shared and personal assets and responsibilities, giving you both a greater sense of security.
Choosing to use a surrogate or to be a surrogate, is a decision that’s both exciting and legally complex. When considering or entering into a surrogacy arrangement, it’s important to understand that UK surrogacy law automatically recognises the person who gives birth (the surrogate) as the legal parent and they will be named on the birth certificate.
As a business owner, you will want to protect your business, and a prenuptial agreement that clearly sets out how your personal and business assets will be divided if you were to divorce in the future, is the most effective way to do so.
A Family Business Agreement (FBA), sometimes known as a family constitution or a family charter, is a non-legally binding document that provides a clear framework for how your family directs matters when it comes to the family business and family wealth.
Starting a family through donor conception can be tremendously exciting, but it’s a big decision that could have far-reaching implications for both the parent(s) and the child. Donor conception is a particularly complex area of family law so it’s important to get specialist advice before getting too far down the line.
Our specialist fertility solicitors can advise on, and support you through, the numerous legal considerations involved in assisted reproduction, surrogacy, donor conception and co-parenting.
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