The UK’s largest specialist divorce & family Law practice, with an office convenient to you, serving both Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead. Our team of family lawyers can assist with your issues within a relationship breakdown or family matter. We specialise in various services, including civil partnership dissolution, divorce proceedings, post-nuptial agreements and much more. If you are seeking independent legal advice or a qualified children arbitrator, contact our team, which has extensive experience in divorce and children matters and who will give you the best possible outcome.
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At Stowe family law we are committed to supporting you with empathy and understanding, taking the strain through difficult times while making family law easier to grasp through a tailored service specific to your circumstances.
You can call us from 8:30am – 7pm, Monday to Friday and 9am – 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Please note that all in-office appointments are by pre-arrangement only.
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Our experienced staff have extensive expertise in family law matters such as divorce, finances, unmarried partnerships, and child custody conflicts.
We understand the difficulties that families and individuals endure when dealing with a family law matter. We routinely assist clients in resolving complicated financial concerns involving various assets, as well as advising on where children reside and how they spend time with their parents following a divorce or marital breakup.
Our clients range from high net worth individuals and high-net-worth families with substantial assets, income and investments through to professional families and stay-at-home parents across Berkhamsted, Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Harpenden and other surrounding areas. Our team works extremely hard to help you with personal issues as well as assisting you with your finances, contact our Stowe family law team Berkhamsted for the most professional service from a qualified collaborative lawyer.
We work alongside our in-house accounting team, who have extensive specialist experience, to protect your wealth and secure your financial position for the future and achieve a fair settlement. We work on finding practical solutions with a collaborative law approach. Whether you have problems with a prenuptial or postnuptial agreement or cohabitation agreements, our Berkhamsted office have your best interests in mind.
Our team of family law lawyers also provide alternative options to represent clients. This could range from reaching a financial settlement, to more sensitive topics such as children disputes, divorce petition, domestic abuse or domestic violence.
Rachel Watson, a highly experienced and recognised family lawyer, leads our team of divorce and family lawyers. We work with a range of clients from every geographic location with any family law issue. Contact our divorce solicitors to seek legal advice regarding any family law issues.
Across Stowe’s offices in the East of England, our family law specialists offer comprehensive legal services, including divorce, child custody, mediation, and fertility law. Our dedicated team, including lawyers accredited by Resolution and recommended in the Legal 500, provide expert guidance and personalised support at every stage of your legal journey.
Our expert family law solicitors have decades of experience and have access to hundreds of years’ worth of expertise from our teams across the country. We are the UK’s largest family law specialist, delivering tailored service and expertise, locally to you in the Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead area.
Our client-centric approach has seen us recognised by the Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners for our commitment to outstanding client service and client success.
Clients often talk about our compassion, empathy and our ability to deliver the ‘hard facts’ and the clear guidance they need to move forward with their case, and their lives.
For the best outcome regarding any issues relating to family law and financial matters, contact our divorce lawyers. We will assist you throughout the divorce process and respect your own decisions throughout your journey.
We help people not only from Berkhamsted but also Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Harpenden and other surrounding areas like Kings Langley, Tring and the Chilterns more broadly.
Our office can be found at Berkhamsted House, directly on the high-street, just off the A4251, opposite St Peter’s Church. We are just a 30-minute train journey from London Euston and easily accessible across Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. Parking is available at Water Lane pay and display car park, a two-minute walk from the office.
We are easily accessible from Hemel Hempstead, St Albans, Hertford, Rickmansworth and Radlett; and we also have offices nearby in St Albans and Central London for those commuting into London.
You can call us from 8:30am – 7pm, Monday to Friday
and 9am – 5pm on Saturday and Sunday.
Understanding what you're going through
Making family law easier to grasp
Helping to take the strain
Tailoring our services for you and your circumstances
Whether you’re looking to divorce your partner, or you’re responding to a divorce application made by your spouse, you’ll be looking for expert help and support.
The divorce process can be difficult to navigate, and for many, it can instil a sense of anxiety and confusion; which is why we take great care to outline the emotional, practical and legal challenges that lie ahead whilst providing practical next steps so that you can move forward to achieve the outcome you need.
We can provide guidance on completing the divorce application, through to negotiating financial settlements and child custody (child arrangement orders).
A divorce application marks the start of your divorce process. You can apply for a divorce by yourself (sole applicant) or make a joint application with your ex-spouse (joint applicants). Getting this early part right is important as it can help to save you time and money; it can also help to make the process more amicable. Our divorce lawyers can support you in completing and submitting the divorce application to prevent delays.
If you’ve been served with a divorce application and named as the respondent, it’s sometimes unclear as to how you should respond; you’ll be presented with a lot of legal wording and expressions that do more to create frustration than they do to provide clarity. Our Berkhamsted divorce lawyers can help you to respond to a divorce application while preparing you to get the best possible outcome for you, and for your family.
One of the most difficult steps in a separation or divorce is in working through the arrangements for your children (formerly known as child custody). While this is a challenging process, it is in the best interests of your children to reach a civil agreement with your ex-partner. To make sure you get the best result for you and your children, it often helps to have a child law specialist on-hand to provide you with guidance on what a fair and workable arrangement might look like. Our Berkhamsted child solicitors have extensive experience in child arrangement cases and have seen a variety of solutions to suit every situation, no matter how niche. Our goal is to get the best outcome for your children and to help you to maintain a positive relationship with your ex-partner wherever possible.
Like every relationship, every couple’s finances will be unique to them. Trying to separate years of financial ties is often challenging, and there are usually tough financial issues that need to be resolved. Financial Settlements (commonly known as Divorce settlements) can cover everything from the family home, and even assets you owned before you got married to pensions, and investments; so getting expert financial and legal help is important if you’re looking to protect your assets while providing for your family once the divorce is completed.
We have a lot of experience in dealing with difficult financial matters, property and estates; as well as catering to high-net-worth individuals, and clients with assets abroad. So, if you’d like advice on how to handle your assets, our financial settlement lawyers and forensic accounting team can help you.
Taking the decision to end a civil partnership takes a heavy emotional toll. While many are familiar with the concept of divorce, the path to dissolving a civil partnership will feel much less clear. The process used to end a civil partnership is known as dissolution and it can only be instigated after you have been in a civil partnership for a year.
If you choose to dissolve your civil partnership, you will still be entitled to all the same benefits and entitlements as those who get divorced, and in a similar vein, thought will need to be given to the sharing of assets and the arrangements that need to be made for your children. To help you navigate a dissolution, our expert team can provide practical guidance and peace of mind.
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Seb represents clients in all aspects of family law and is well versed in handling complex and high-net-worth cases often with an international element. He is described in the Legal 500 as practical, realistic and personable’, ‘pragmatic and sensitive’ and ‘excellent, intelligent and thoughtful’.
Date last reviewed: 24/06/2024
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