Family issues

Our family law team are familiar with all of the pressures that come with divorce or the breakdown of a close relationship.

Divorce or separation very often means that financial plans need radical re-thinking. What would have been an adequate provision for a single family unit will have to stretch much further. This can very greatly increase tensions, even between parties who agree their relationship is at an end.

The hard earned holiday home, provisions for the future of children and retirement plans can be devasted by the need to realise the maintenance of two separate households.

Our family team have the skills and expertise to help you navigate your way through these problems and move on to a new future.

For more detailed information about how we can help you, please visit our Matrimonial & Family pages.

Online Literature

Viewpoint Summer 2011.pdf covering:

  • The changing status of pre-nuptial agreements
  • The benefits of family mediation
  • In our right minds when can you not make a will?
  • Appointing an executor making the right choice

10 Good Reasons to Make a Will.pdf

Viewpoint Winter 2010.pdf covering:

  • Why loan agreements are essential
  • Releasing funds for your retirement
  • Financial abuse of the elderly
  • Promises, promises - how the law can enforce broken ones

Family Matters.pdf
Document listing all family services that VWV can provide.

Secrets and Lies pdf - paper on the 'fully secret trust'