Finding a family law professional to match your specific needs

With choices ranging from family mediation, to collaborative law, to family arbitration, to negotiations between lawyers, it can be a struggle to know where to begin.

Splitting up or divorcing can leave you with unanswered questions and fears over exactly what to expect. It’s likely to prove a stressful time, with emotions running high. Getting advice early from a family law solicitor or specialist mediator can help you know where you stand, what the options are, and what each way forward may look like.

Resolution members sign up to a Code of Practice committing to a non-confrontational approach to help you resolve your family issue. You can use Resolution’s database search function to find help in your local area or by profession. There is also an option to refine by particular area of expertise, should you would like to work with a Resolution Accredited Specialist to resolve your issue. This can help match you with a professional who you feel you can trust to be honest, listens to you and treats you with respect.

A specialist Resolution member commits to using experience and knowledge to guide clients through the options available to them. This helps meet your particular family circumstances and needs and gives some power back to you, especially through what can feel like a time of upheaval, new beginnings, and also endings.

This can help you decide which path best fits your needs. Seeking advice you can trust early in the process can help you both understand and manage the potential long-term financial and emotional consequences of decisions.

When divorcing or separating, tensions run high and stressful changes can impact your wellbeing. Seeking a family mediator and/or family solicitor can work towards reducing or managing any conflict and confrontation in a collaborative, empowering approach. This way of working also supports and encourage families to put the best interests of any children first. This approach, in its non-confrontational way, prioritises the wellbeing of any children in the family, making sure they feel supported and cared for.

For the whole family, managing and reducing stress in what can be an already stressful situation, even if you agree, can mean considering how to balance financial and emotional costs with what you want to achieve. Compromise and collaboration can take time but often brings lasting solutions which feel fair, and can even be re-visited (for instance, as children grow) to match your ongoing needs.