Legal issues affecting your family can be highly stressful and confusing, so our aim is to make resolving them as fast, simple, and stress-free as possible with a focus on minimising conflict wherever possible.
Our family law solicitors in the City of London offer a non-confrontational approach to family dispute resolution, as well as strong expertise in all areas of family law. We can help you with everything from divorce and relationship breakdown, to financial disputes and disagreements over childcare.
Having specialised in family law since 1996, our team have extensive experience working across all areas of family law. With training in mediation and collaborative law, we can minimise conflict when resolving family dispute while ensuring your interests stay protected. We also have strong experience in LGBT+ family law, so no matter who you are, we can provide the legal expertise you and your family need.
Get in touch with our family solicitors in the City of London by calling 0203 281 7841, emailing thecity@crispandco.com or using the enquiry form on the right to request a call back.
Our family law services in the City of London
Our family lawyers in central London offer a full range of legal services for individuals and families. We can help you find fast, cost-effective legal solutions to your family law issues while avoiding conflict wherever possible.
Our family law expertise includes:
- Divorce
- Civil partnership dissolution
- Divorce and finances
- Pre-nuptial agreements, pre-civil partnership agreements, and post nuptial agreements
- Cohabitation agreements
- Children law
- LGBT+ family law
- Family dispute resolution (including mediation & collaborative law)
- International divorce
- Fertility law
- Domestic violence, including obtaining non-molestation orders
Our family law services in London
Divorce
At Crisp & Co, we know that getting divorced can be a tense and confusing time. When you’re facing this challenging period, you’ll benefit from the support of experienced legal professionals, guiding you through the essential tasks.
Our family law solicitors in the City of London can assist you with all aspects of divorce, whether you are completing a divorce application, or responding to one.
As well as the general divorce process, our divorce solicitors can help you with all of the practical matters surrounding a divorce, including reaching a financial settlement and protecting your finances with a freezing order and/ or a clean break order. We can also help you to make the necessary legal arrangements for any children involved.
Civil partnership dissolution
The breakdown of a civil partnership can be an emotional experience, and you might be confused about the legal processes to come. Our specialist family solicitors can support you through all of the necessary stages, including:
- Applying for a civil partnership dissolution or responding to a civil partnership dissolution application
- Reaching a financial settlement and making arrangements for any children
- Obtaining a Conditional Order, and later a Final Order, legally ending the partnership
Divorce and finances
Our specialist family law firm can provide a wide range of divorce and finances related legal support. When you’re going through a divorce, we can provide the assistance you need to protect your finances, as far as possible.
Our divorce and finances legal support covers areas such as:
- Reaching a voluntary financial settlement if possible
- Obtaining a Financial Order if needed
- Obtaining a Clean break Order
- Obtaining a freezing order, where you are concerned about your partner hiding assets
- Obtaining a Consent Order, to ensure that any financial agreement is legally binding
To discuss how we could help you with divorce and finances, please contact our divorce lawyers today.
Pre-nuptial, pre partnership, and postnuptial agreements
Prenuptial agreements are used to establish the financial responsibilities and assets of each party, prior to entering into the marriage, including, whom these assets and obligations will belong to if the couple get divorced.
Our experts can provide legal advice on prenuptial agreements, and help you to draft a document that reflects your needs. We can also help with:
- Postnuptial agreements (these are the same as prenuptial agreements, but are entered into during a marriage as opposed to before).
- Pre partnership agreements (these are the same as prenups, but are entered into before a civil partnership as opposed to a marriage).
At Crisp & Co, we can help you to create a legally binding prenuptial agreement, postnuptial agreement, or pre-civil partnership agreement, to afford you security and peace of mind for the future.
Cohabitation agreements
Many couples will choose to live together without ever getting married, and unfortunately, these couples do not have any automatic legal protection if their relationship comes to an end.
Our family law specialists can help you to create a cohabitation agreement that reflects your needs. These agreements are used to outline arrangements for finances, property, and any children, while cohabiting, and if the relationship breaks down.
If you would like to create a cohabitation agreement, please contact our cohabitation agreement solicitors in London.
Children law
At Crisp and Co, we know that the legal matters concerning your children can be both emotional and difficult to negotiate. Our family lawyers can offer the empathetic and constructive guidance you need, whilst putting your children’s best interests first.
We can assist with a wide range of children law matters, including child arrangements during a divorce, or matters concerning parental responsibility.
For more information about how we can assist with children law, please get in touch with our family law experts.
We understand that issues resolving your children can be incredibly sensitive, particularly where you are going through a divorce. Rest assured, our divorce lawyers can help you to resolve matters swiftly, reducing the impact on your children as far as possible.
LGBT+ family law
Our family law solicitors in the city of London have plenty of experience in LGBT+ family law, positioning us perfectly to support you and your loved ones.
Our family law service includes assistance across a wide range of LGBT+ family law matters, to include:
- Divorce and civil partnership dissolution
- Prenuptial agreements and pre-registration agreements
- Cohabitation agreements
- Adoption for same sex couples
- Parenting arrangements
- Surrogacy and sperm donation
Family dispute resolution
Family disputes have a tendency to be tense and complex, and unless the right approach is adopted at the beginning, these situations can quickly become all the more tense.
Due to our expertise in alternative dispute resolution, most of the time we can resolve family disputes without needing to resort to court action. Resolving matters out of court is preferable as it’s usually less expensive and time consuming than court proceedings.
At Crisp and Co, we can support you to resolve disputes using methods such as mediation or collaborative law:
Family mediation – We offer trained, neutral mediators who can arrange a meeting between you and anyone you are involved in a dispute with to discuss the issues involved and amicably agree a fair outcome.
This approach allows you to keep control over the process of resolving a dispute and is often the fastest, least costly and simplest way to agree a solution.
Collaborative law – If you have more complicated issues to resolve and are worried that you won’t be able to sort out the details yourself, collaborative law offers a good alternative to mediation that still aims to keep conflict to a minimum.
Both parties meet, each accompanied by their own lawyer trained in collaborative law. A four-way discussion then takes place with the goal of agreeing all of the details required to resolve the dispute and allow both parties to move on.
International divorce
Our family solicitors can support couples going through international divorces, including the application process, and various matters that may likely affect international couples going through a divorce, such as:
- Support to arrange and divide overseas assets
- Assistance to make arrangements for children, specifically where the parents wish to live in separate countries
- Determining which country to apply for a divorce in, and consequently, navigating any country specific legal issues that may impact the divorce
To access specialist family law advice today, please contact our expert divorce solicitors at Crisp and Co.
Fertility law
Our family law solicitors in the City of London can provide assistance with a variety of matters related to fertility law, including:
- Legal assistance with surrogacy law and help to draft surrogacy agreements
- Guidance to access a Parental Order, (for surrogate parents)
Legal advice on matters related to assisted reproduction and artificial insemination, including IVF, IUI and donor insemination
Domestic violence
Our sensitive solicitors appreciate that suffering domestic violence can be both traumatic and frightening, and that getting help in these situations is rarely easy. If these are your circumstances, it is essential that you receive the support you need to protect yourself, as soon as possible.
We can help you to put various legal protections in place, to keep you and your loved ones safe, including:
- Non Molestation Orders
- Occupation Orders
- Prohibited Steps Orders
To learn more about how we can assist you, get in touch today. Our experts have much experience in domestic violence cases, and will do all that we can to help.
Why choose Crisp & Co’s family law solicitors in the City of London?
Crisp & Co’s family lawyers in the city of London support individuals and families across London and the South East with a wide range of family law issues. With over two decades specialising in this area of law, we offer a high level of expertise and the benefits of our exceptional training in non-confrontational dispute resolution.
Many of our family law solicitors are also members of Resolution, a network of family legal professionals committed to non-confrontational dispute resolution.
We have a particular focus on LGBT+ family law, with many years of experience acting for LGBT+ individuals across everything from divorce and civil partnership dissolution to adoption, surrogacy and parental responsibility issues.
Get in touch with our family law solicitors in the City of London
Book an appointment with our family solicitors in London by calling us on 0203 281 7841, emailing thecity@crispandco.com or using the enquiry form below to request a call back.