Family Law Advice UK

Habitually resident means the place where your life is genuinely centred — where you live, work, school your children and keep your ties —…

When one parent is absent — uninvolved, uncontactable, or simply gone — the parent left raising the child needs to know what they can…

A fact-finding hearing is a trial within children proceedings: the family court hears evidence about disputed allegations — most often domestic abuse — and…

When a marriage ends, English courts divide assets through three principles: needs, sharing and — rarely — compensation. The sharing principle holds that what…

After the family home, pensions are usually the largest asset in a marriage — and the one most often under-valued or traded away badly.…

Ring-fencing is the art of keeping an asset out of the divorce settlement — an inheritance, a pre-marital property, a business built before the…

Deciding whether to divorce is harder than divorcing. The law has made the process simple — no blame, no contest, around seven months —…

Once the decision to divorce is made, what matters is sequence: gather documents before positions harden, agree interim arrangements before conflict sets them, and…

A family business faces four legal pressures its founders rarely plan for together: divorce inside the family, incapacity of a key owner, death and…

Standish v Standish is the Supreme Court’s decision, handed down on 2 July 2025, that redrew the boundary between matrimonial and non-matrimonial property: the…

If you have experienced domestic abuse, legal aid can pay for the advice and representation you need — for a protective injunction, in child…

Non-molestation orders and occupation orders are the two main protective injunctions under the Family Law Act 1996. They do different jobs: a non-molestation order…