Grandparents in Sutton ask one question more than any other: can they see the grandchildren after their son's or daughter's divorce? The law gives them no automatic right, but it lets them ask the court for permission to apply for a child arrangements order, and in a borough with an older population and many three-generation families that application is regular work for family law solicitors in Sutton. The same families produce kinship carers, grandparents or aunts who take in a child when the parents cannot cope and need to know about special guardianship and the support that goes with it.
The borough's other family work is familiar. Separated parents in Wallington and Worcester Park need arrangements for the children and must normally attend a mediation information and assessment meeting before applying to court; where mediation works, the agreement can be made into a consent order. Unmarried couples who own a home in Carshalton together discover that family law barely applies to them and that their dispute is really about property and trusts. Care proceedings brought by Sutton's children's services carry legal aid for the parents regardless of income, and where a child is at risk the court moves fast.
Domestic abuse is no respecter of quiet suburbs. Non-molestation and occupation orders can be obtained within days, legal aid is available for them, and solicitors can advise on the police and housing side of leaving. Prenuptial agreements are increasingly sought by couples marrying later in life, often to protect a house or an inheritance for the children of a first marriage.
Most Sutton family solicitors offer a fixed-fee first meeting and hourly rates thereafter; family cases from the borough are generally heard in Croydon.
Family law firms serving Sutton are listed below, verified firms first. Read what family law covers and the general family law solicitors page; the divorce itself is covered by divorce solicitors in Sutton, and the family law solicitors in London page describes the capital's family courts.
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