Family Law Solicitors In Barnet
We handle family law cases across Barnet, North London, EN5, and surrounding areas including High Barnet, New Barnet, East Barnet, Totteridge, Whetstone, Arkley, Hadley Wood, Finchley, and Mill Hill.
Our law offices are near Finchley Central, N3. We can meet with clients in Hendon if required.
Areas of family law we specialize in are:
- Divorce Separation and dissolving a marriage or civil partnerships.
- Child arrangement orders, child maintenance orders for married and unmarried parties, other issues regarding children following the breakdown of a relationship.
- Resolving family finances, division of property and assets including financial settlements following the breakdown of a relationship.
- Helping couples on separation who are not married or civil partners.
- Pre- and post-Nuptial agreements
- Emergency court applications for personal protection or to protect finances.
- We can prepare family trusts
Family Mediation
Our family law specialist Simon Cooper, who has over 30 years’ experience in the field is also a trained and qualified family mediator, he can conduct mediation between couples who are seeking to resolve disputes together about finances, children and other issues.
Costs:
An initial meeting will be arranged for a fixed fee. Fixed costs can also be agreed for uncontested divorce proceedings dependant on the merits of each case. Some cases may not be appropriate to agree a fixed fee and will need to be charged on a time basis.
Finance and Child arrangement applications will be excluded from any fixed fee and will only be charged on a time basis. In all cases, there is a court fee for the divorce application (currently £612). We try to deal with this matter collaboratively by agreeing the divorce application with the other party and splitting the court fee equally, but we cannot guarantee this.
With regard to Finance cases, we try to agree a settlement with the other party or their lawyer and to achieve a Consent Order, which is then sealed by a Family judge. This is to achieve a “clean break” between the parties, and usually in this case the Court application fee is split equally between the parties.
Court fees for Finance Applications are £60 for a Consent Order, and £313 if an Application is made for an order without consent.
For Child arrangement applications the Court fee is £263.
The firm’s charge rates and costs can be discussed in detail at the initial meeting. Our fee for an initial meeting of 1 hour is £260 plus VAT, but we credit this towards ongoing fees if the firm is instructed.
Fees and prices are as of April 2025 and may change.
Contacting us:
We are happy to arrange meetings by telephone and video conference or in person. Our main office is located in Finchley Central (London); we also have offices in Hatfield (Hertfordshire) and Bloomsbury (Central London).
The family law team is made up of by Simon Cooper, Munira Javid Abib and Ayse Salih.
Please call the office on 0208 446 6223 to speak to a member of the team or email enquiries@sr-law.co.uk