Divorce Solicitor Farnborough

Divorce and family solicitors Farnborough

Your family is at the centre of your life and you want to make sure that those most important to you are well looked after.

Our family law solicitors have been advising families and individuals in and around Farnborough and the surrounding areas on divorce and family law for many years.

When relationships do break down, for whatever reason, finding the right kind of settlement is still the best way of approaching the next stage of life’s journey.

The Morr & Co family law and divorce solicitors have experience of advising clients on relationship breakdown of married couples, cohabiting couples and civil partners together with the consequences of this separation upon the children.

With long experience and a practical and sympathetic approach to family and relationship matters, our Farnborough family law team can help you to prepare for life’s ups and downs, make the right decisions, and take care of those around you.

The team advise clients on:

  • Divorce, dissolution and separation
  • Financial arrangements
  • Children issues
  • Pre and post nuptial agreements
  • Cohabitation and unmarried families
  • Mediation

We are experienced in handling every kind of family issue and will help you to understand the legal processes, using clear, non-technical language where appropriate so that you can evaluate your options and make the right decisions for you and your family. Get in touch with our family and divorce solicitors.

Deborah Prance

Deborah Prance

Partner

Family

Farnborough family team reviews

I used this company for matrimonial issues. I found them knowledgeable and helpful. They helped me to reduce legal costs by coaching me to do some of the process myself. I am satisfied with the outcome achieved and I would recommend the company.

Recent family team client

Rated 4 out of 5

Provided really good advice and dealt with every one of my concerns in a patient and methodical manner. Thank you so much, you made a difficult situation so much more bearable by being in my corner throughout.

Recent family team client

Rated 5 out of 5

So helpful and reassuring. Very happy with their advice, could not of helped me any better.

Recent family team client

Rated 5 out of 5

Our services

Please see below an introduction to some of the family law services our Reigate team provides.

When relationships break down, for whatever reason, the combination of emotional stress, anxiety about dependents and finances, and problems in communicating with a partner can make seeing a clear path into the future very challenging. We recommend that you speak to an expert adviser as soon as possible, both to reassure you at a difficult time and to ensure that you avoid making any early mistakes, and take the right steps to reach the best possible outcome.

At Morr & Co we can help you to find your way through the process and ensure that the resulting settlement is as close to your wishes as possible. We’ll listen with sensitivity to understand your concerns and provide clear, objective advice about the best way forward, tailored to your specific needs and circumstances. Our aim is always to take you beyond the needs of your immediate dispute in a constructive manner, and to focus on long-term goals and wider issues arising from your relationship breakdown.

We have prepared a Guide to Divorce Proceedings that will address many of your initial questions.

For further information, please contact a member of our family team who will be able to help you with the next steps.

Download our guide to divorce

For many people, the financial and practical issues associated with relationship breakdown and divorce are more immediate and pressing than the legal process of the divorce itself. But they can also seem overwhelming.

At Morr & Co, we provide practical and pragmatic advice to guide you through the process and help you make the complex and strategic decisions necessary to reach a settlement.

We can advise you on the court’s powers and procedures in relation to a wide range of issues relating to financial arrangements in divorce, dissolution and separation cases.

Download our guide to divorce

Making arrangements for your children is among the most difficult and potentially most upsetting issues that you will have to deal with following a relationship breakdown.

The issues are familiar but no less challenging for that: who has parental responsibility; children’s name changes; contact with the children; ongoing living arrangements; grandparents’ rights and contact; taking children on holiday or to live abroad; financial arrangements for housing and maintenance; schooling and school fees; special guardianship, and many other issues.

At Morr & Co, we understand the complex issues you are facing and we can provide advice and guidance on the best ways to resolve them. We will help you to work out a way forward that suits your family and help you to reach constructive solutions that enable you and your former partner to co-parent effectively for the months and years ahead. We can also refer you to helpful support services including counsellors and therapists should you need them as the process progresses.

We are also skilled and experienced in mediation, which can be a very useful tool in finding the best way to work together to address the individual needs of your children and parenting them together.

We can help you with all issues relating to the continuing care and provision for your children, including:

  • Parental responsibility
  • Contact, residence and the new Child Arrangements Orders:
  • Grandparents’ rights
  • Removal from the Jurisdiction and Re-location Applications
  • Child maintenance
  • Financial claims on behalf of children
Download our guide to child arrangements

Pre- and Post-Nuptial Agreements (PNAs) are increasingly receiving respect and recognition in our courts. PNAs are not final and binding as they stand, in that courts retain overall jurisdiction to consider all the circumstances and to decide what is ‘fair’. However, if they are well drafted and both parties have received full advice, they have been described as the ‘magnetic factor’ by the courts and given priority over the factors listed in s.25 Matrimonial Causes Act 1973.

If you are thinking of marrying, and especially if it is your second marriage, you may want to consider entering into a Pre-Nuptial Agreement with your spouse. Indeed, even if you are already married these documents are useful by way of a Post-Nuptial Agreement, to verify arrangements between you and may be seen by courts as an indication of your desire to be bound by the terms of your PNA, therefore strengthening its influence on the settlement.

At Morrisons, we have experience of preparing both Pre- and Post-Nuptial agreements and can advise you on the process and the key considerations when preparing such an agreement. We recommend that, whatever your circumstances, you take expert advice before either preparing a PNA, or later relying on one to shape any settlement following a relationship breakdown.

Download our fact sheet on Pre and post Nups

The laws relating to post-relationship breakdown settlement of unmarried couples can be much more complex than for married couples and your financial rights can be comparatively restricted. Most importantly, despite the frequency with which the term is used, there is no such thing in this country as ‘common law marriage’ – it simply does not exist and there are no rights to maintenance against one another following breakdown of cohabitation.

It is therefore important to take legal advice on your rights and obligations, as the situation is probably not as straightforward as you might expect and the relevant law can be extremely complex. At Morrisons, we can help you to understand your position, following relationship breakdown, with regards to:

  • Property ownership
  • Children and maintenance
Download our factsheet

Mediation is an informal process to assist couples to communicate with each other and to reach informed decisions about their finances, their children or any other matters. It is a voluntary and informal alternative to court proceedings. Meetings take place with one or two trained and neutral mediators who will act as facilitators and will assist you and your partner to try to resolve any dispute that has arisen. Most couples need between three and six mediation sessions to come to a set of proposals. The sessions usually last for one and a half hours.

Mediation can be a very quick and cost-effective way to resolve issues since you pay for the mediation sessions jointly, rather than each paying a solicitor separately to handle their divorce through the court process.

It is never too late to start mediation, even if Court proceedings are already underway. Courts like parties to try Mediation.

The benefits of mediation

  • You retain control over decisions affecting your future
  • Mediation can occur quickly and at short notice.
  • Mediators can suggest practical solutions that a Judge could not suggest or impose.
  • Mediation is much cheaper than going to Court.
  • Mediation removes much of unpleasantness that can be attached to Court proceedings.
  • The success rate for cases settling is very high.
  • Experience shows that parties are much happier with a mediated settlement because they have taken part in the process.

A number of our Family Law team are qualified and experienced mediators and can help you to explore and potentially agree a settlement without the cost and potential upset of litigation. We offer a fixed-fee service for each mediation session and can also offer Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs) to help you decide whether mediation is the right approach for you to take.

Collaborative law, also known as collaborative practice, is a legal process for couples who have decided to separate or end their marriage and who want to work together, with the support of their lawyers, to achieve a settlement without the cost and upset of court proceedings.

Typically, the process requires both parties to sign a ‘Participation Agreement’ – a contract – binding them to the proceedings. Because Collaborative Law is a mutual process, rather than an adversarial one, it can be both faster and cheaper than other approaches, and it avoids much of the pressure and unpleasantness that can emerge through court proceedings – and which can be upsetting for any children involved.

At Morrisons, we are experienced in helping couples to reach settlement through Collaborative Law and can help you with all aspects of the process, and with identifying and working with any other specialist advisers you may want to involve in the proceedings.

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