Family

Sensitivity at an emotionally difficult time

Continuity and quality of service. This is uppermost in most clients' minds at a time of such personal disruption. People naturally want to keep business and family matters with advisers they've come to know and trust. This way, they are guaranteed the same quality of service and continuity. Our Family Law and Private Client Groups work closely together to ensure that we're providing practical and workable advice with sensitivity at an emotionally difficult time.

Experience with the financial fall-out. Whether clients are thinking of separation or divorce, the options are full of financial uncertainties that need to be clarified sensibly and in detail. We are experienced counsellors on all these aspects - splitting pensions, assessing the status and valuation of life policies, investments, share options, determining the future of a business run by one or both of the partners when their relationship breaks down.

The family is at the heart of it. At such a trying moment for both parties, it can be important to seek solutions that provide real stability for the family, particularly the children. What happens to the matrimonial home? What about financial maintenance? Contact rights for parents and grandparents?  We will help with all of this - including co-habitation arrangements for couples who don't intend to marry, an area of increasing interest in the wake of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006.