Your Choice: Where to Go from Here

We can help you decide which is the best approach and process to resolve your separation, divorce, finances or children arrangements or you may decide to use a
combination. We are looking to meet your needs in a bespoke, clear, kind and cost effective way listening to your preferences.

You can use personal negotiation, task specific legal advice and drafting, Mediation, Collaborative Separation and Divorce, Solicitor Negotiation, Court Applications or Arbitration. Further details are set out below.

“The Family Law Team advises and supports our clients, helping with important domestic issues including, separation and divorce, arrangements for children, finance and property disputes in negotiations and in court applications. We have an outstanding reputation in this field of law.”

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Areas of Expertise

Twickenham & Teddington Solicitors

Providing first-class legal advice throughout South West London and Surrey for over 40 years

Personal Negotiation

You may do this face to face, by email, with the help of a trusted person or with the help of technology. This will keep your costs to a minimum but you are the least supported and the possibility of one Partner influencing the other is greater. If you have no legal advice you may enter into disadvantageous agreements and orders adversely affecting the rest of your life.

Task Specific Legal Advice & Drafting

Your circumstances may be that you prefer to have a meeting to review particular issues or to prepare documents or implement agreements. This may be advice during mediation or personal negotiations, review or preparation of financial information, coaching for personal negotiations or mediation.

Mediation

We can offer Mediation and Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings. The Mediator will set an agenda, deal with financial disclosure and manage the mediation process, help both Partners listen and have their chance to speak in a respectful way, summarise, clarify, test and explore options in a flexible, problem solving way, provide legal and practical information, indicate what independent legal advice is needed, manage next steps, produce Open Statement of Financial Information and Without Prejudice Memorandum of Understanding to use to make into an order or agreement with independent legal advice.

Collaborative Separation & Divorce

In The Collaborative Process: Growing Apart Successfully there is a common ethos to resolve arrangements for the future for the benefit of the whole family, working with your former Partner and the two Collaborative Lawyers to find a solution in an open and creative way in Collaborative Meetings. The Collaborative Lawyers use their legal, collaborative law, management and mediation skills to assist resolution and provide you with legal advice and support. Once agreement is reached the legal framework can be completed by the Collaborative Lawyers, with separation or divorce and agreements or orders, providing you with a seamless integrated process.

Solicitor Negotiation

Personal Negotiation, Mediation or Collaborative Divorce is not suitable for everyone. Where you need to have more separation from your former Partner, there is no trust, difficult issues or communication problems, negotiations in the traditional manner either by correspondence, telephone calls or meetings may be the best solution for you.

Court Application or Arbitration

You may decide that you and your former Partner are so apart in your views that a negotiated agreement is simply not possible and you may prefer the court to decide at the outset or if one of the other processes has not achieved an agreement. Arbitration is a private legal decision and can be used if you and your former Partner agree to use this process.