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Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR | UK

Scotland

Our Family/Matrimonial tables rank law firms and lawyers who deal with issues surrounding the inception and breakdown of personal relationships. This includes the creation of pre-nuptial, civil partnership and cohabitation agreements relating to financial and property assets, the resolution of divorces or separations involving financial and property disputes, and the handling of matters relating to children in the context of divorce or separation. Public law proceedings related to children in care may also be included, as may work relating to surrogacy and fertility law.

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  1. Amanda Masson
    Amanda Masson
    Harper Macleod LLP
    Harper Macleod LLP | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 8 Years Ranked
    Amanda Masson is an experienced family lawyer and accredited mediator. She acts on a range of financial provision disputes and also advises on issues around child relocation. She also has specialist expertise in issues concerning fertility, surrogacy and non-traditional family structures.
  2. Lesley Gordon
    Lesley Gordon
    BTO Solicitors LLP
    BTO Solicitors LLP | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 17 Years Ranked
    Lesley Gordon has a great deal of experience in handling highly contested and complex financial provision matters, including disputes between divorcing and cohabiting couples. She is an accredited family mediator.
  3. Lorna Buchan
    Lorna Buchan
    Patience & Buchan
    Patience & Buchan | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 11 Years Ranked
    Lorna Buchan is highly regarded in the market for her strong family law practice. She often advises on the financial aspects of high-value divorces, including matters concerning maintenance, family businesses and cross-border assets. She is a qualified family mediator and arbitrator.
  4. Lucia Clark
    Lucia Clark
    Morton Fraser MacRoberts
    Morton Fraser MacRoberts | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 13 Years Ranked
    Lucia Clark is based in the firm's Edinburgh office and is recognised for her international experience, advising on intra-UK and other cross-border disputes pertaining to divorce and separation. She also has specialist knowledge of farming cases and is an accredited family mediator.
  5. Robert Gilmour
    Robert Gilmour
    SKO Family Law Specialists
    SKO Family Law Specialists | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 8 Years Ranked
    Robert Gilmour has an impressive track record acting on complex financial provision and children matters, and also has specialist expertise in fertility law and surrogacy. He is a qualified family mediator and arbitrator.
  6. Ruth Aberdein
    Ruth Aberdein
    Aberdein Considine
    Aberdein Considine | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 3 Years Ranked
    Ruth Aberdein leads the Aberdein Considine family law team from Aberdeen. She offers expertise in divorce and separation proceedings, including financial provision disputes and child contact arrangements, and also assists with the negotiation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. She is also an accredited family mediator.
  7. Ruth Croman
    Ruth Croman
    Macnabs Solicitors | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 2 Years Ranked
    Ruth Croman is managing partner of Macnabs and an experienced family lawyer based in Perth. She has experience in a range of finance and child law-related cases and is particularly skilled in ADR proceedings.
  8. Shona Smith
    Shona Smith
    Blackadders LLP
    Blackadders LLP | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 23 Years Ranked
    Shona Smith recently joined Blackadders in Edinburgh. She regularly advises on high-value financial provision disputes as well as private child cases, drawing on her experience as a trained mediator and arbitrator.
  9. Susan Oswald
    Susan Oswald
    SKO Family Law Specialists
    SKO Family Law Specialists | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight | 11 Years Ranked
    Susan Oswald focuses her practice on both public and private children law, including Hague Convention cases and intra-UK jurisdictional issues around care orders and relocations. She is accredited as both a mediator and child law specialist.
  10. Jennifer Gallagher
    Lindsays | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight
  11. Judith A Meil
    Taggart Meil Mathers | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight
  12. Judith Higson
    Scullion Law | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight
  13. Shona Templeton
    MTM Family Law LLP | Family/Matrimonial: Mainly ADR
    2025 | Spotlight