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Family Law Solicitors
Family Law Solicitors
- Experienced family solicitors in Lurgan and Lisburn.
- Leading family law solicitors in Northern Ireland since 1949.
- Experts in divorce, adoption, custody and more family law matters
- Free consultation to discuss your circumstances.
Get the support of trusted family solicitors
There are always strong emotions involved when it comes to family law. Our specialist family law solicitors will treat your case with the care and sensitivity it deserves. We combine that compassion with the professionalism and practicality needed to handle family matters.
We have a long record of resolving family law matters amicably, which minimises conflict, stress and expense for everyone involved. But, if another party makes this impossible, our family solicitors will strongly protect the interests of you and your loved ones.
How our family law solicitors help you
Our professional family law and matrimonial law solicitors will provide the expert legal support you need in all areas of family law. This includes:
Divorce
A divorce or separation can be hugely stressful and often contentious. At a time when emotions are running high, our family law solicitors offer listening ears and cool heads. We draw on our experience to secure the outcomes that are best for you and any children involved, without creating extra stress.
Matrimonial agreements
Our experienced family law solicitors will work to help you reach a matrimonial agreement with your former spouse. We have vast experience of negotiating divorce financial settlements on behalf of our clients. We’re here to ensure you secure a fair portion of your joint assets.
Premarital agreements
Limit the stress and acrimony if a relationship breaks down in the future by making a premarital agreement. Also known as a prenuptial agreement or prenup, this legal document will help you to reach a matrimonial agreement before the marriage starts. We offer similar services for cohabitation agreements.
Civil partnership
Get expert legal advice on every aspect of your civil partnership. This includes pre-civil partnership agreements, which work similarly to prenuptial agreements, or civil partnership dissolution, which we approach similarly to divorce settlements.
Child custody
We bring an empathetic and focused approach to incredibly difficult child custody cases, including adoption proceedings and cases in which a parent or relative has abducted a child. In the overwhelming majority of cases, we help parents reach a workable agreement on child arrangements, residence and other child custody matters.
Child contact
Our experienced family solicitors will guide you through every aspect of child contact matters. This includes child visitation rights, parental responsibility and father’s rights issues. In all cases, we offer practical but sensitive legal advice that helps you to protect your child’s best interests.
Domestic violence and harassment
If you’re facing violence from or being harassed by a partner, former partner or relative, it can be highly traumatic. You might understandably be fearful for your safety. We will help you to use all available legal channels to limit and eliminate the harmful behaviour that is being inflicted on you.
Mediation and arbitration
In most family law cases, mediation is an important option for avoiding unwanted hurt, legal fees and stress for everyone involved. Using the experience we’ve built over many decades, our family law solicitors will explore all avenues to find satisfactory outcomes without the need to go to court.
Why choose H McPartland & Sons as your family law solicitors?
Having served as family solicitors in Lurgan and Lisburn since 1949, we’ve become part of the fabric of our close-knit local communities. That’s probably a key factor in why so many local people decide we’re the best family law solicitors to entrust with such sensitive matters.
Over those many decades working as family law solicitors in Northern Ireland, we’ve built a wealth of knowledge and experience of all aspects of family and matrimonial law. We will use that know-how to avoid unnecessary conflict, while also protecting your best interests.
Our approach is sensitive and empathetic, with a focus on securing the best possible outcome for your circumstances. We’ve successfully negotiated agreements and settlements for many local people over the years. In all cases, we work towards amicable resolutions with minimal hassle and costs for everyone involved.
For a discussion about how we would approach your family law case, book a free consultation. Our family law solicitors will give you initial legal advice – and there is no obligation to proceed. Visit us at our offices in Lisburn or Lurgan, which both have free car parking. Alternatively, you can arrange a home visit or phone consultation.
They where very efficient and attentive to our case.We where made to feel at ease and confident that our case would get their full attention
We where very happy with the outcome in the end.
Thank you Harry McPartland and Sons.
Family Law Solicitors FAQs
The key factors in choosing family law solicitors are the experience, reputation and location of the solicitors you’re considering. It’s important that your family law firm has dealt with similar matters before – and done so successfully.
It’s also a good idea to choose family law solicitors in Northern Ireland since the laws here are different from those in other parts of the UK and Ireland. We have handled a wide range of family law cases since 1949, building considerable experience in Northern Ireland family law.
Book a free initial consultation to discuss your situation or our experience in similar cases.
Family law solicitors offer a wide range of legal services covering all aspects of the interactions between family life and the law. This includes services relating to relationships, such as:
- Premarital agreements
- Divorce and financial settlements
- Civil partnerships
- Matrimonial agreements
- Cohabitation agreements
It also includes various legal services relating to parenting and childcare. This includes:
- Child custody
- Child agreements and contact
- Child abduction
- Adoption
- Parental responsibility
While these are some of the main services offered by family law solicitors, it is by no means an exhaustive list. Get in touch to discuss any family law issues you’re currently facing
A prenup is a prenuptial agreement or premarital agreement. It is a legal document that a couple makes before getting married to determine how property, finances and other matters would be divided in the event that the relationship ends.
While prenuptial agreements in Northern Ireland are not legally binding, they will be taken into consideration by courts. They can also be a useful way of maintaining civilised relations during a divorce since many of the most contentious issues will have already been agreed upon.
The cost of a family law solicitor will depend on your circumstances and the complexity of the legal case in which you’re involved. For example, the cost of a family law solicitor for a relatively amicable divorce that is resolved through mediation will be significantly less than for a divorce case that goes to court.
In all cases, we offer free initial legal advice on family law cases. Talk to our experienced solicitors about your situation and get expert guidance on the legal fees involved.
Talk to our family law solicitors
Lisburn Office
- Niagara Buildings,
- Tonagh Drive,
- Lisburn,
- BT28 1DY
Hear from our previous clients
They where very efficient and attentive to our case.We where made to feel at ease and confident that our case would get their full attention
We where very happy with the outcome in the end.
Thank you Harry McPartland and Sons.
