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A relationship breakdown can be a traumatic and stressful event.

If you are going through this difficult time, Irwin Mitchell can offer you sensitive, expert legal advice, and protect your financial interests.

Experts In Dealing With Financial Cases

The specialist Family Law team at Irwin Mitchell offers considerable expertise in this area offering:

  • A mixture of local knowledge, national reach and international experience
  • Highly competitive on price
  • A range of lawyers with experience of cases at every level
  • Access to a wide range of other services, and the support and reassurance of dealing with a substantial firm
  • Experienced in disputes involving business assets
  • Experienced in disputes involving married, un-married and same sex couples.

In divorce or dissolution of civil partnerships, our experience ranges from relatively straightforward cases with limited resources, to those involving complex issues and substantial assets. We are recognized as experts at dealing with international cases and business assets. Whatever issues you face, we have the experience to help and support you.

In unmarried cases we are able to help you to establish your rights and responsibilities and safeguard your position.

Working With Irwin Mitchell

Irwin Mitchell is one of the UK’s most successful and respected law firms. Offering expert legal guidance for individual clients, we are also the law firm of choice for many financial institutions in providing legal services to their customers.

We provide clear, straightforward advice and a professional, proactive service. When needed, we will fight fearlessly to protect your interests and those of your loved ones.

Whatever the circumstances, our commitment to our clients is simple - a law firm for life.

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Claim for Negligent Matrimonial Proceedings

Liz Norris acted for Mr Knight in pursuing his former solicitors for negligence in the handling of his matrimonial proceedings.

Mr Knight had agreed monthly maintenance payments for his ex-wife and two children. Unfortunately, he was made redundant and overnight his financial circumstances changed dramatically, so much so that he was unable to continue to pay maintenance at the agreed levels. He agreed with his ex-wife that all maintenance payments would be suspended for a period to enable him the time to find alternative employment and improve his financial position. They both instructed solicitors as to the terms of this agreement and an order was drawn up. Unfortunately, Mr Knight's solicitors failed to ensure the order was approved by the court. This had the consequence that his ex-wife could (and did) apply to the magistrate’s court to enforce payment of maintenance for the period that they had agreed payments would be suspended.

Consequently, Mr Knight was left in an extremely difficult situation and was left having to pay a substantial sum by way of maintenance despite having agreed that it would not be payable.

Liz successfully negotiated for Mr Knight a payment from his former solicitors that represented a significant proportion of the additional maintenance that he had become responsible for.

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