Cohabitation Disputes – Solicitors in Gosforth Serving Newcastle upon Tyne, The North East and Nationally
Separation leaves most people anxious about protecting what you have or trying to establish what you have from the relationship. If you’re unmarried this can be even more acute. Your partner might own the home in their sole name leaving you wondering if you have any rights or entitlement to money in the property. Conversely, if the home is in your sole name, how can you best protect it?
We understand that the uncertainty can sometimes be overwhelming. You will want a quick, cost effective solution. If you are trying to protect what you have, we can advise you about that. If you are trying to establish a right in an asset that is not in your name, we can advise you. It does not always follow that the non-owner of the home must be the one to leave.
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Please call us on 0191 284 5030 or complete a Free Online Enquiry and we will soon be in touch. We represent clients in Newcastle upon Tyne and throughout the North East.
We are based in Gosforth with parking facilities and we strongly recommend that you contact us as soon as the problem starts to emerge so that we can help contain it or guide you further. We can save you a lot of money and stress.
We are experts at quickly getting to the core of the problem. We are experienced Family Solicitors and used to dealing with personal, pension, business and complicated family trust arrangements. We can advise you about business accounts and that assessing the value of a pension is not just about its capital value. Forensically assessing the detail in the documents is very important.
We are members of Resolution an organisation of family lawyers and other professionals committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes.
You might also be faced with your partner trying to hide or dispose of assets to defeat any entitlement you might have to share. If that happens and you can prove it, there is no time for messing about, mediation or negotiation; you have to move fast and consider the possibility of an ‘Injunction’ to prevent the asset being lost to you.
The key to resolving any financial dispute is to identify what there is to be shared and where it is to be found. Early full and frank disclosure of all finances will provide the necessary information to finding the right solution.
You might also need to decide who stays in the home. What about the children, who always come first in the Court’s thought process?
If that does not work, we will advise on the next steps.
Access to the Courts has become complicated, overly expensive and fraught with delay. It can often take over 12 months to resolve, and in some cases with legal costs rising to tens of thousands of pounds after several Court Hearings.
We often recommend clients consider an alternative way of resolving their differences. Sometimes Mediation does not work. It’s too easy to walk away from a non-binding process and some often enter the process to stage the walk out.
Family Arbitration involves you and your partner or ex-partner appointing a Family Arbitrator to resolve the dispute. The Arbitrator would be an experienced Family Lawyer, and in some cases already appointed as a Deputy Court Judge. The Family Arbitrator is presented with information, documents and legal argument from your Solicitor as a Court would require, and produces an impartial and fair decision after hearing from both sides.
There are many advantages to Arbitration including speed, versatility and considerable savings in costs. At the end of the Arbitration, the parties are bound by the decision which can be converted into a formal Court Order. It’s more effective than Mediation, and other forms of collaborative approach, which are not binding.
We are based in Gosforth with parking facilities and we strongly recommend that you contact us as soon as the problem starts to emerge so that we can help contain it or guide you further. We can save you a lot of money and stress.
We can also help with
• Divorce and Separation
• Children Disputes
• Inheritance Disputes
• Injunctions