Family Law
Enoch Evans family team consists of highly experienced and dedicated family lawyers that offer compassionate, straight forward and tailored advice to help you find the best outcome for your children, your finances, your businesses, your future and you.
We offer our family services in Walsall, Sutton Coldfield, Cannock & the surrounding areas.
With expertise in sensitive and emotionally challenging situations, our experts will work with you to protect your best interests and to navigate you through to the next stage of your life. We listen to your situation and desired outcome to enable us to provide you with a clear strategy moving through the process.
Our team can support you with a breadth of services:
- Divorce and Civil Dissolution
- Financial Remedy Proceedings
- Cohabitation agreements
- Occupation Orders
- Children
- Wealth Protection, to include pre and post nuptial agreements
- Specific Issue Orders
- Relocation
- Grandparents Rights
- Prohibited Steps Orders
- Non Molestation Orders
Divorce Proceedings & Separation
Divorce and the breakdown of a relationship can be a difficult, stressful and emotional time. It can be difficult to know where to turn when faced with making important decisions about your future.
Our specialist Family Law solicitors can provide the detailed expert advice needed in these circumstances.
Civil Partnership Dissolution Proceedings
When a civil partnership breaks down it can only be ended by applying to court or if one person dies. Parties can enter into an agreement before entering into the civil partnership which will set out what happens in the event of a separation. If there is no agreement our Family lawyers will help you navigate through the separation process.
Financial Matters
Finances are a vital concern when a relationship breaks down and is often the more complex part of the separation.
Our specialist team will work together, whilst catering to your circumstances, offering clear, pragmatic advice, to negotiate a settlement that is fair for both parties. Our aim is to keep parties out of court environments as it is expensive and takes a long time but sometimes this is not always possible.
If an agreed settlement cannot be reached then you will be guided throughout the application and court process for financial remedy proceedings. The court can ultimately decide how the assets are divided which is why an agreed settlement is the preferred option to most individuals.
Cohabitation Agreements
If you live with your partner without getting married, it can create difficulties if you later separate when it comes to dividing your finances, deciding what happens to your shared home and sorting out other practical details. Common law marriages are a myth.
Cohabitation agreements are flexible documents and can cover everything from the payment of child maintenance and property costs after a break-up, to the delegation of household chores.
Helpfully these documents help to minimise any conflict if you do later separate.
Children
A child’s welfare is paramount. Making arrangements for a child following the breakdown of a relationship can be complex and confusing. It is important for a child to have a meaningful relationship with both parents. A Child Arrangements Order is a legally binding document that determines where a child will live and who the child will spend time with and when.
Orders can be made to cover all arrangements for the child including holidays, school holidays, mothers / fathers day and Christmas. You can also apply for an order for specific issues such as where a child should go to school, or to prohibit a parent from making a decision about a child such as removing a child from the jurisdiction.
Our team will work with you to find an amicable outcome or where necessary make court applications to ensure that a child focused arrangement is put in place.
Pre and Post Nuptial Agreements
Before entering into marriage both parties should ensure that any pre-existing assets are suitably protected through a formal written contract. Whilst contemplating the breakdown of a marriage is something none of us wish to consider, enlisting a experts to assist in the drafting of a pre-nuptial agreement can offer you peace of mind should that eventuality occur.
Nuptial agreements are well known with the wealthiest of people however they are becoming more popular with all backgrounds as there are many benefits to having one in place to ensure clarity if parties are to separate in the future.
Parental Responsibility
Not every person has parental responsibility and it is important to know whether you do before you are able to make decisions as a parent. If you are unsure whether you have parental responsibility for your child or need to legally secure parental responsibility, our expert team of family lawyers can help. Our team can advise how to obtain Parental Responsibility for a child and make applications to the Court on your behalf.
Grandparents Rights
Contrary to popular belief, grandparents do not have the automatic right to have contact with their grandchild – however a grandparent can seek the court’s permission to make a Child Arrangements Order.
Our team of expert family lawyers, can simplify this process by providing clear and concise advice to guide grandparents.
To speak to our specialist Family Law team, please email Family@enoch-evans.co.uk or, alternatively, fill in the enquiry form on the right-hand side of the page to ask us a question.