Ranking tables

Family/Matrimonial | 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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Band 1

  1. Brodies LLP
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    Brodies LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 1 | 6 Years Ranked
    Brodies is a leading Scottish firm with a family team working across its offices in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Inverness. It demonstrates notable experience in cross-border matrimonial finance matters, often involving complex business and tax issues, as well as the negotiation of nuptial and cohabitation agreements. The team also handles a range of child matters including child abductions and disputes around residence and contact, as well as adoption and parentage issues. Brodies is well versed in alternative dispute resolution, housing experts in collaborative law, mediation and arbitration.
  2. Morton Fraser MacRoberts
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    Morton Fraser MacRoberts
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 1 | 7 Years Ranked
    Morton Fraser MacRoberts has a long-established and respected practice in Edinburgh and frequently advises on family disputes before the Court of Session and sheriff courts. The firm is well recognised for its breadth of expertise in multi-jurisdictional matters, such as international child abductions and high-value divorces with foreign assets, with an array of dual-qualified experts capable of handling complex English law matters. The team is active in public and private children law, and also provides wealth protection and preventive advice including prenuptial and cohabitation agreements.
  3. SKO Family Law Specialists
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    SKO Family Law Specialists
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 1 | 4 Years Ranked
    SKO Family Law Specialists is a well-regarded practice in Edinburgh, frequently instructed on complex international matters pertaining to divorce, separation and nuptial agreements. The group also handles both public and private children cases ranging from abuse allegations to international child abductions. It is also recognised for its work in areas such as fertility and surrogacy.
  4. Balfour+Manson LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 1
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Band 2

  1. Aberdein Considine
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    Aberdein Considine
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 2 | 1 Years Ranked
    Aderdein Considine has an experienced team in Aberdeen and Edinburgh handling a broad range of family law matters. Its lawyers advise on divorce and financial provisions, prenuptial agreements and international child maintenance enforcement, often acting for high net worth individuals. The team is further noted for its work on sensitive matters involving issues such as domestic abuse. In addition to court representation, the firm can offer the full range of ADR services.
  2. BTO Solicitors LLP
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    BTO Solicitors LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 2 | 1 Years Ranked
    BTO Solicitors in Edinburgh offers notable expertise in complex children work and high net worth financial provisions concerning both married and cohabiting couples. The firm is active in alternative dispute resolution and has also acted on significant litigation in the Court of Session and the sheriff court. It fields a number of dual-qualified lawyers, meaning the team is well placed to advise on cross-border matters, and often acts on matters involving complex business structures, farming assets and property issues. The team has further expertise in issues around fertility and surrogacy.
  3. Burness Paull
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    Burness Paull
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 2 | 1 Years Ranked
    Burness Paull has a strong family law practice in Edinburgh, focused on complex matrimonial financial disputes. Lawyers in the team are adept at dealing with matters that involve significant business and property interests, both in relation to divorce proceedings and during the negotiation of nuptial agreements. The firm also has the capacity to act for clients during private child cases, including disputes over residence and contact issues.
  4. Patience & Buchan
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    Patience & Buchan
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 2 | 6 Years Ranked
    Patience & Buchan is a well-known and highly regarded Aberdeen-based practice. The team has experience in divorces and cohabitation cases, especially those involving high net worth individuals, farming assets and other property issues. It also possesses experience in child-related disputes, such as welfare hearings, contact orders and relocations including multijurisdictional cases. The team has a strong focus on resolving disputes collaboratively or via mediation.
  5. Gilson Gray LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 2
  6. Turcan Connell
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 2
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Band 3

  1. Blackadders LLP
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    Blackadders LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 3 | 1 Years Ranked
    The family team at Blackadders handles an expansive caseload of matrimonial finance mandates and is similarly active in private child cases including relocation and contact issues. The firm is well prepared to represent clients in divorces featuring international property assets and other cross-border complications and further noted for its work on wealth protection including nuptial agreements. It is also experienced in alternative dispute resolution, including collaborative law. Blackadders has offices across Scotland in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Dundee.
  2. Harper Macleod LLP
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    Harper Macleod LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 3 | 4 Years Ranked
    Harper Macleod is recognised for its broad coverage of family matters, offering expertise in divorces, cohabitation claims and child relocation matters along with prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. The team in Glasgow displays considerable capabilities in cross-border cases and offers trained collaborative lawyers and mediators, in addition to skilled litigators. It also has experience in fertility law and associated issues, including adoption, surrogacy and assisted conception.
  3. Lindsays
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 3
  4. Macnabs Solicitors
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 3
  5. MTM Family Law LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 3
  6. Thorntons Law LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 3
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Band 4

  1. Anderson Strathern
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 4
  2. Family Law Matters Scotland LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 4
  3. Scullion Law
    Family/Matrimonial
    2025 | Band 4