About
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The Family Team has extensive experience in handling a wide range of family law matters. They can provide specialist advice related to separation and divorce, children matters, finance and pensions, domestic abuse, and pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements. They focus on understanding clients’ needs and priorities, developing a strong rapport with them and becoming their trusted advisor for legal and non-legal matters.
The team's recent work includes:
● Matrimonial finance disputes including high value matters, farming cases and business disputes – department co-works closely with firm’s private client and commercial teams, and external advisers where required, to provide necessary expertise and service to clients.
● Private law children cases including complex areas such as parental alienation, addiction, social services involvement, international and internal relocation, and third party applications.
● Domestic abuse including coercive control.
● Trusts of land and cohabitee disputes including third party claims.
● Nuptial agreements (both pre- and post-) and cohabitation contracts.
● Pensions on divorce including the splitting on complex military pensions.
The team also operate within the firm's sectors and provide specific and tailored advice to those within the armed forces, individuals who own work or operate within the agriculture sphere and have a dedicated focus on supporting clients whose work falls in the land and development field.
Chambers Review
Goughs is adept at handling complex divorce proceedings and related financial disputes. The team regularly assists with challenging private law children cases and offers further experience in negotiating prenuptial and cohabitation agreements. The firm has a number of offices around Wiltshire.
Strengths
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"Goughs have fantastic knowledge, and if something wasn’t known or unsure, the information would always be found out. They gave total clarity about the process so I could fully understand."
"Goughs give good advice. It may not always be the advice you want to hear but it is sound advice that makes you aware of the risks at any stage so that you can act appropriately."
"Goughs are very professional, knowledgeable and collaborative."
"Goughs have fantastic knowledge, and if something wasn’t known or unsure, the information would always be found out. They gave total clarity about the process so I could fully understand."
"Goughs give good advice. It may not always be the advice you want to hear but it is sound advice that makes you aware of the risks at any stage so that you can act appropriately."
"Goughs are very professional, knowledgeable and collaborative."
Notable Practitioners
Ross Phillips frequently assists with private children cases, prenuptial agreements and financial disputes. He is based in the firm's Melksham office.
"Ross Phillips is a real fighter for clients. He is very robust in wanting to deal with things and he is not afraid to go to court."
Thomas Boyce regularly assists clients with financial disputes arising from divorce. He is based in Chippenham and heads the firm's family department.
"Thomas has got a very calm and reassuring way with clients."
"Thomas Boyce has a vast wealth of experience."
Ranked Lawyers at
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Members
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Alice Blackmore
Amelia Cruise
Georgia Holmes
Georgina Catlin
Hannah Conway
Hannah Francis
Mark Hood
Matthew Drew
Head of Department
Natalie Kemp
Natasha Miller
Rhianna Cole
Head of Department
Head of Department
Industries
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Agriculture
Armed Forces
Land and Development
Property Investment