Family/Matrimonial
UK Guide 2025 : South West
Band 2
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Provided by Ashfords LLP
Our Family Team appreciate that a relationship breakdown is a traumatic event, we treat all issues with sensitivity and provide a tailored service to meet your demands.
Our team provide specialist legal advice and their expertise ensures our clients receive a complete and professional service. We have expert family solicitors who are praised by clients, legal guides and the media for their outstanding knowledge of family law. All of our family solicitors are members of Resolution, the national organisation of family lawyers committed to non-confrontational divorce, dissolution, separation and other family problems.
A number of our team are also Collaboratively trained, which means they can help you navigate your family law issues jointly with your partner and their chosen Collaborative adviser. Our team are committed to helping you navigate your private family law issues in the most cost-effective way and wherever possible, without court proceedings.
Specialisms
Separation involving agricultural partnerships and assets
Divorce, dissolution & separation
Child arrangementsCohabitation (living together) agreements
Disputes involving children
Cases with an international element
Disputes if you’re unmarried – in relation to property or a child’s needs
Civil partnershipsCollaborative law
Wealth protection advice including nuptial agreements
Relocation proposals and disputesPensions on divorce or dissolution
Non-molestation and occupation orders
Chambers Review
Ashfords houses an experienced team handling matrimonial finance disputes and divorce cases. The group also advises on wealth protection, including prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. Lawyers at the firm are adept at undertaking instructions from high net worth individuals, and offer notable expertise in private children cases. The firm is based in Bristol, Exeter and Plymouth.
Strengths
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"They are super approachable and really easy to ask questions of. I love working with them."
"As a team they a have a really strong knowledge of different areas."
"They are super approachable and really easy to ask questions of. I love working with them."
"As a team they a have a really strong knowledge of different areas."
Notable Practitioners
Jayne Turner is well placed to advise on complex financial remedy proceedings. She is based in the firm's Exeter office.
Zoe Porter regularly advises on a variety of financial remedy proceedings and children cases.
"Zoe is a sensible, practical and hardworking lawyer."
"She provides good advice to her clients and plays everything with a straight bat."
"Zoe is really experienced, easy to work with and just gets on with it."
Samantha Newton advises on complex financial remedy proceedings, nuptial agreements and private law children cases, including relocation applications. She is a trained collaborative lawyer,
"Samantha has got good judgement and she's very good at managing clients. I think she's pragmatic and sensible."
"Samantha completely prioritises her clients' cases. She is realistic, very straight-talking and quite creative in her solutions."
"Her advice is always really clear and she is very transparent with clients, in whom she instills confidence. She is great to have as an opponent and looks for out-of-court solutions."
Associate Megan Prideaux is well-versed in the full gamut of family matters, including divorce, separation and complex financial disputes.
"Megan Prideaux is very compassionate and will work really tirelessly on the client's behalf."
"Megan Prideaux is sensible and pragmatic."