Family Law

At Blackfields Solicitors, we understand the challenges people face in their family situations. We provide quality advice. Our Family team are well experienced. We do handle complex and exceptional cases: We are more than ready to work with you in achieving your goals. 

We are able to provide  advice on the following areas of family practice:

  • Child Abduction
  • Divorce Dissolution
  • Financial Remedies
  • Child Protection issues
  • Non-molestation order
  • Occupation order
  • Child arrangements

 

We have a dedicated family team of solicitors that can assist you and provide you with adequate and professional advice in solving your family issues.

The team is well experienced on dealing with cases at every level of court. We display empathy and sensitivity in all the cases we handle, and always make sure that we make the whole process stress free as much as we can.

 

Legal Aid

We have been awarded a contract by the Legal Aid Agency in Family Law. Legal aid is means tested. We need to assess your case, whether it has good prospect of success. We will also need evidence of your financial income to be able to assess whether you qualify for legal aid funding.

https://www.gov.uk/check-legal-aid (www.gov.uk) and follow the instructions. If you do qualify for legal aid for your issue, contact us to find out if we have current capacity for a new legal aid case.

 

Our Team for Family Law

Fixed Fee areas:

  • Divorce petition (uncontested) working for the petitioner: £1000 + VAT + Court fee.
  • Divorce petition (Uncontested) working for the respondent: £800 + VAT.

Hourly charges (private) for matters i.e. child arrangement order, financial settlement etc.

Solicitors £320:00  plus vat  per hour

Legal assistants £175 plus vat per hour

 

Family Law Team

  • Adedoyin Adeyemo [Solicitor- £320:00  plus vat p/h]
  • Victor Adeniyi [Solicitor- £320:00  plus vat p/h]
  • Bola Lawal [Legal assistant £175:00  plus vat p/h]