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Divorce & Family - initial meetings

The Lawson West family department has an established team of senior solicitors able offer advice and act in all family matters.

Members of our Family team are usually available, during office hours, to have a free short telephone discussion with you. This ensures that you are in contact with the right department, to establish what your needs are and to arrange a convenient appointment.
We can then offer you an appointment, either in the office or virtually. The fee for this is £285.00 including VAT and disbursements (currently 20%). *We also charge an Anti-Money Laundering Search fee of £15.00 plus VAT.
We are able to offer a fixed fee divorce of £750 inc VAT (currently 20%) plus disbursements. Usually, the only disbursement which is to be paid is the court fee of £612.00 (zero VAT).
We undertake all other aspects of our work on an hourly rate plus VAT, rather than a fixed fee. This ensures that you will only pay for the time we spend on your matter.

The work we undertake includes:-

  • Divorce and other relationship breakdown.
  • Financial resolution, following a family breakdown. This includes the family home, second properties, shareholdings, companies (whether family owned or otherwise), savings, and pensions
  • Children matters, including “live with”, “stay with”, specific issue, prohibited steps, removal from jurisdiction (to live or for holidays) and special guardianship orders
  • Drafting of Agreements, including Pre-nuptial, Post-nuptial, Co-habitation and Separation Agreements
  • Change of Name Deeds

As members of Resolution, we will always act in a non-confrontational manner, which does make resolving matters cost effective for all clients.

Divorce and Family Team:

The members of the Divorce and Family team can be found through our “team” pages and also by following the links below:

Fiona Wilson (Supervisor)

Alistair Dobson

Matt Harcourt-Poole

Viktor Docsakovszky

Lou Duke

Jill Hayward

Tracey Williams

Ann Wright