Family Law

Our Family team can help you and your children at the start or end of a relationship. We offer a personal service tailored to your needs. This usually involves a team approach, with an experienced partner always present.

Family law is complex and ever changing. Specialist advice can be critical.

Our Family team can help you and your children at the start or end of a relationship. We offer a personal service tailored to your needs. This usually involves a team approach, with an experienced partner always present.

Where possible we adopt a non-confrontational approach to give you the best chance of reaching the right result with as little damage as possible to family relationships and finances. Several of us are trained mediators and collaborative lawyers.

We recognize that consensus is not always possible; we are experienced in the Court processes and adversarial proceedings where these are needed.

  • Divorce & Family Breakdown

    If a marriage or civil partnership breaks down, it can be ended legally. Frequently this brings with it issues of finance, and also concerning children, which must be resolved. The Court can become involved in this if necessary.

    Judicial Separation is available if your relationship has ended, but divorce is not appropriate. The process is identical (except that the legal relationship is not actually brought to an end) as are almost all the Court’s financial powers. It is quite rare.

    A separation agreement is another possible approach. This has no initial Court involvement at all. It is simply a contract by which the parties agree issues that are of relevance to their particular situation. They might need one to govern a period of separation leading up to a divorce, which might set out who is to live where, and who is to pay for what. It might apply where the parties are neither married nor in a civil partnership at all.

    If you are not married, you do not need the law to end your relationship, but its breakdown can bring with it identical legal issues to resolve, particularly if the relationship has lasted a while or has involved cohabitation (see below).

    We are skilled and experienced in handling all such situations.

  • Cohabitation & the Unmarried Family

    Fewer people are formalising their relationships by marriage and civil partnership than was ever the case before; more of us are simply choosing to live together, and approaching half of all children Kenya are born to parents who are neither married nor in a civil partnership. The breakdown of such a relationship can present all of the complex issues we see on divorce or civil partnership dissolution.

    This means that people, often when at their most vulnerable, are faced with a daunting and complex series of steps to take to resolve financial issues with their former partner.

    We are experienced in resolving these issues.

  • Children

    Fewer people are formalising their relationships by marriage and civil partnership than was ever the case before; more of us are simply choosing to live together, and approaching half of all children Kenya are born to parents who are neither married nor in a civil partnership. The breakdown of such a relationship can present all of the complex issues we see on divorce or civil partnership dissolution.

    This means that people, often when at their most vulnerable, are faced with a daunting and complex series of steps to take to resolve financial issues with their former partner.

    We are experienced in resolving these issues.

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