Cripps Harries Hall

What we do

Legal advice may be needed at the start of a relationship. A prenuptial agreement sets out how you will manage your finances and divide up your property should the relationship fail. The UK courts have recently confirmed their importance, and will follow them unless it is unfair to do so.

Cohabiting couples do not have the same rights as those who are married or in a civil partnership. We recommend that you enter into a cohabitation agreement to protect yourself.

The breakdown of a relationship can have many legal consequences. We advise you not only in the process of separation or divorce, but also on the consequences for your children and in respect of your assets. There are various ways of resolving financial issues. We offer collaboration and mediation as alternatives to the traditional court process. If agreeement cannot be reached, it is for the court to decide on a fair division of capital and pensions, the matrimonial home, other assets, and maintenance. We will support and guide you.

Our clients

We have a lot of experience in advising clients with large incomes and substantial assets. We often represent couples who live or work abroad, in preparing pre-nuptial agreements, advising where best to start proceedings if a relationship breaks down and in acting quickly where children are involved and may be taken out of the UK.

Why Cripps Harries Hall?

Our expertise, a service that is second to none and lawyers who are sensitive to the emotional issues that you may be facing. Our lawyers belong to Resolution, an organisation committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes. It's a non-confrontational approach, considering the needs of the whole family and especially the interests of children.

Our family team is ranked number one by Chambers UK, A Client's Guide to UK Solicitors and Alex Davies is recognised by The Legal 500 as a "well regarded family lawyer".  Alex Davies is also recognised as a prominent figure in the Citywealth Leaders List 2013.

We offer meetings outside normal business hours - in London as well as in Tunbridge Wells.

Next steps

For confidential advice or further information please contact Alex Davies.

Our team has extensive experience of dealing with a wide range of family issues. Here are just a few examples of how we have helped our clients.

• Representing wife where husband's business interests were worth in excess of £37m and total assets in the region of £40m.
• Representing wife in a complex divorce where total matrimonial net assets exceed £14m, £2.5 of which were held in a discretionary offshore trust.
• Drafting a complex pre nuptial and co-habitation agreement where total annual income was in excess of £1.2m and assets £3m.
• Advising husband regarding a complicated pre nuptial agreement where assets were worth in excess of £6m.
• Representing a mother in a complex Schedule 1 Children Act application and application to suspend contact.
• Acting for wife in a complex Hague convention, leave to remove and financial issues including the temporary wrongful removal of child to Belgium.