Same Sex Divorce Lawyers

If your relationship has broken down, our same sex divorce lawyers can help you move forward with your life. 

 

We can help you whether you’re unmarried, divorcing, or dissolving a civil partnership.

Our LGBT+ Family Law Services

Our solicitors are very experienced in this area, particularly in cases involving children law issues and complex financial matters.

We’ve been at the forefront of the campaign to improve the legal rights of LGBT+ people. Our family lawyers regularly write and lecture on this issue. We’ve also taken cases all the way to the Court of Appeal and Supreme Court.

What Services Do We Offer?

Our solicitors can help you with:

Our same sex divorce lawyers know what you’re going through. We understand how hard it might be to walk away from an institution like marriage, which you and your friends campaigned for. 

We also understand how blunt the law can be in this area. The historic denial of legal status for same sex couples can create all kinds of problems when relationships break down. 

Couples who haven’t married when they’d have liked to, because they weren’t allowed, may get different legal treatment to an equivalent heterosexual couple. It all depends on how formalised your relationship is.

Why choose us?

We’ve been at the forefront of the discussion to modernise the law. We regularly lecture and write on the legal issues facing the LGBT+ community. We also have experience taking test cases to the highest courts in England & Wales. We represented our client, Ms Roocroft , in landmark case at the Court of Appeal. This case confirmed that same sex couples have the same rights to financial disclosure on divorce/civil partnership dissolution.

  • Our lawyers specialise in cases involving:
  • High net worth individuals
  • Business owners
  • Executives
  • Professionals.

These cases will often involve considerable wealth, which may be split across several countries. We’re experts in this area and can draw on colleagues from other specialist areas to help, such as our Tax, Trusts & Estates team. If you have children, we can help negotiate contact arrangements and maintenance payments. We can help with this whether your children are with your spouse/civil partner, or from a previous relationship.

Frequently Asked Questions

From 6 April 2022, the law on divorce changed and no fault divorce replaced the old system.

The divorce/dissolution application contains a statement in which you confirm that the marriage has irretrievably broken down. You can now apply by yourself or make a joint application with your spouse.

Read our no fault divorce FAQs.

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