Family Law

When you are affected by the breakdown of a family relationship through divorce or separation, our family law team is here to help.

We understand that going through a divorce or separation is a difficult and emotional time and our professional team of lawyers will guide you with the right balance of sensitivity, strategic thinking and sound practical advice.

We will help you through the practical issues of divorce proceedings and help you to understand the documents involved – focusing on the best outcome possible for you. We will also help you to take a longer term view and focus on what your overall aims and aspirations are, and how we can try to achieve them.

It is particularly important to ensure that all financial issues are resolved. Our family law team will help you to understand and appreciate the often complex situations that arise during the divorce process and the ways in which the law can govern how finances are handled. We have particular experience in high value, complex, financial claims arising on divorce or separation.

We also enjoy a well earned reputation for delivering specialist family law services to members of the agricultural community, where divorce or separation can have an impact not only on personal issues, but also on business matters.

Some of the areas of Family law where we can help:

• Pre and post-nuptial agreements
• Separation and divorce
• Matrimonial finance
• Pension and property advice
• Cohabitation agreements and disputes
• Inheritance Act claims
• Asset protection and tax mitigation
• Children's Act proceedings and wardship
• Parental responsibility, paternity disputes and surrogacy
• Injunctions
• Negligence claims against family lawyers
• Civil Partnership disputes

Our family law team has close links to property, commercial and tax lawyers within the firm; it also enjoys well established connections with specialist Counsel, Accountants, Valuers and Pension experts. We are thus able to deliver an holistic legal service to a wide range of private clients, locally, regionally and nationally from our offices in Nottingham, Spalding, Newmarket and Peterborough.

We appreciate that things do not always happen at convenient times. If you need to speak to someone urgently outside of normal office hours please contact one of the Roythornes Private Client team on the number below. We will provide initial guidance and reassurance to help you with any immediate questions you may have at what may be a distressing time.

Please call us on our out of hours number: 01775 842630