Family Finance & Divorce

7BR’s specialist family finance and divorce barristers advise and represent clients in financial remedies on divorce, dissolution of civil partnership, the end of cohabitation and in anticipation of marriage or separation, including nuptial and cohabitation agreements.

We act across the financial spectrum – from cases where the principal assets are the family home and pensions through to high-value and complex matters involving family businesses, farms, inherited wealth, pensions, international assets and offshore or onshore trusts. We are instructed by individuals, trustees, third parties and companies.

Our work includes:

• Divorce and financial remedy proceedings;
• Financial provision for children, including Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 claims;
• Cohabitation and property disputes, including TOLATA 1996 applications;
• Pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements;
• Cases involving bankruptcy, interveners and third-party claims, including CPS intervention where there are parallel criminal confiscation proceedings;
• Applications for maintenance pending suit and other interim relief;
• Variation, enforcement and set-aside applications in financial remedy proceedings;
• Advising on and pursuing appeals in financial remedies and related family finance matters.

Members are involved at every stage; from early strategic advice, interim applications and FDRs (including private FDRs), to fully contested final hearings and any subsequent appeal.

The family team at 7BR recognise the emotional and financial impact that the breakdown of an intimate relationship can have on clients, their children and their wider families. Our barristers are known for a friendly, empathetic and pragmatic approach in this highly charged area of family law, combined with strong negotiation and first-rate advocacy aimed at achieving realistic, commercially sensible outcomes for each individual client.