Family and Divorce Solicitors in Essex and Suffolk

 

Ellisons’ experienced Family and Divorce Solicitors in Essex and Suffolk have established a reputation for providing a high quality, cost effective service, coupled with objective and realistic expert advice.

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Lisa Dawson

Lisa Dawson

Partner, Solicitor & Head of Family

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Family and Divorce Solicitors supporting you through difficult emotional times

We provide a bespoke service recognising that a breakdown in family relationships can involve complex emotions and will require clear and comprehensive advice.

With our extensive experience, we can guide you through your relationship difficulties in a sensitive, pragmatic and effective way. We assist clients across a wide range of issues including domestic abuse, divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships, financial arrangements on separation, pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements, and children matters. We also regularly act for unmarried couples in all cohabitation matters. Please see below for our full range of specialisms.

Appointments with our Family and Divorce Solicitors can be made at our offices in Colchester, Chelmsford, Ipswich, Bury St Edmunds and Frinton-on-Sea for face to face appointments or virtually via video or telephone.

We offer a free exploratory call, so that we can discuss your needs and look to match your specific circumstances with the right specialist family lawyer in our team who would then have an initial fixed fee meeting with you for up to an hour.

During the fixed fee meeting, we would be able to provide you with initial advice, tailored to you and we would confirm this advice to you in a comprehensive follow up letter. Our clients often comment on how helpful this written letter of advice is – it provides focus and clarity, setting out clearly what options are available and assists you in being able to make informed decisions about the best way forward for your future.

Our team receive excellent reviews and feedback from clients, and this is something that we are very proud of.

Our Family and Divorce Solicitors are all members of Resolution which is a national organisation of family professionals that adhere to the Resolution Code of Practice. We are committed to resolving disputes amicably, sensibly and in a non-confrontational way. For further information about Resolution, please visit their website.

The Family Team also have three ‘Resolution Together’ trained solicitors (One Couple – One Lawyer) where we are able to assist and advise both parties on a separation, to help them resolve issues on a breakdown together – including arrangements for their children and financial matters. We also have two collaboratively trained lawyers who are able to act for individuals under the Collaborative Law model.

For more information or to request a free exploratory call, please call us on 01206 764477.

https://resolution.org.uk/  

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