When a posting to Cyprus arrives, do the children go too? Family law solicitors in Lincoln answer that question more often than most, because the RAF bases at Waddington, Coningsby and Cranwell fill the county with families who move every few years, and a separation that would be straightforward in a settled town becomes a relocation case, sometimes an international one, the moment one parent is posted. Orders have to be drafted for a family that will not be in the same place next year.
The family court in Lincoln, on the High Street, hears the county's children and finance cases, with Cafcass reporting on welfare and a mediation information and assessment meeting required before most applications; since April 2024 judges have expected the parties to have tried non-court resolution first. Care proceedings are brought by Lincolnshire County Council, and parents facing them get legal aid regardless of income. Grandparents are a Lincolnshire theme in their own right: farming families where the grandparents own the land and did the childcare, and who need the court's permission before they can even apply to see the children.
Rural isolation shapes domestic abuse cases. A victim in a village with one bus a day may be miles from a refuge, a police station or a solicitor, and the non-molestation and occupation orders that a Lincoln firm can obtain within days, with legal aid, matter all the more for it. Unmarried couples, including the many who run a farm or a holiday business together, have no automatic claim on each other's property; a cohabitation agreement or declaration of trust prevents the worst of what follows a split. Prenuptial agreements are now routine where land is involved.
A fixed-fee first meeting is usual, with hourly rates for contested work.
Family law firms around Lincoln are listed below, verified firms first. See what family law covers, the general family law solicitors page and, for the divorce and the finances, divorce solicitors in Lincoln.
