Brain injuries can have a big impact on your life, including your relationships. Brain injury charity Headway suggests that anywhere between 20% and 50% of marriages end in divorce following a severe head injury.
It’s not uncommon for marriages to break down following a brain or other serious injury, due to the huge amount of strain that these incidents can place on the individual and their family.
Divorce can feel like a complicated and emotional process. If you’ve a substantial personal injury award to pay for your specific future care needs, then it’s particularly important to get specialist advice and representation.
At this time, you’ll want to know that you’ve the right team behind you to secure a suitable divorce settlement that's fair for you, and your ex-partner.
Who can Irwin Mitchell help with a divorce after a brain injury or serious injury?
We can help you if you or your partner has a brain or serious injury and wish to get divorced. We understand what you've been through to get to this stage, and what'll be needed to reach the best possible outcome.
We can help you with issues such as:
- Protecting your personal injury compensation - this isn’t automatically ringfenced within any divorce settlement so early and expert advice is key
- Meeting care requirements after your divorce - if your ex-partner helped to care for you previously
- Agreeing maintenance payments or care for your children
- Helping you to see your children after separation and to determine arrangements for their care
- Obtaining protective measures such as injunctions and / or defending you from untrue allegations.
Why choose Irwin Mitchell to help with your divorce after a brain injury or serious injury?
Our family law team is recognised by independent legal guides, The Legal 500 and Chambers and Partners.
We’ve decades of experience helping couples divorce after one has sustained a brain or serious injury. Our expert solicitors understand how emotional this can be and will work with compassion and at a pace you’re comfortable with.
To support you during this time, we offer all our family clients four free counselling sessions with our in-house counsellor, Vicky Lambert. During such an emotional time, having the support of a trained professional can help. You also have the option of paying for further sessions if you feel you need them.
We work with various charities that can offer both you and your ex-partner after a brain or serious injury. These include:
- Headway
- Royal London Hospital
- The Brain Charity
- Day One.
You’ll also have access to our various other legal and support teams within the company. We want to make sure you're best prepared to move forward with your life. We’ve teams that can help with the following:
- Wills – if you wish to change your Will based on your new circumstances. We can also help with writing a new Will.
- Court of Protection – if you or your ex-partner lacks mental capacity to make decisions, our Court of Protection team can help
- Support and Rehabilitation – our Support and Rehabilitation Co-ordinators are there to help you understand what support is available.
This list isn’t exhaustive, if you need help with something else after your divorce, speak to your solicitor, and they can help find the right team for you.
We’ve offices around the UK, which means whenever you need to meet any of our teams, you can do it at a location near you. We can also arrange phone or video calls, or we can meet you at an appropriate location if this works better for you.
Mediation
During this time, it can be hard to discuss what you and your ex-partner want to do, especially if you’ve received life-changing news. Mediation offers a safe space to share your thoughts with your partner or family members, without being judged.
Many of our clients find this useful because it’s non-confrontational, often cost-effective, and is mediated by a non-biased third party.
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