Family Law Specialists

When your marriage is breaking down, the emotional turmoil can be overwhelming. Questions about your children’s future, your financial security, and where you’ll live create a storm of anxiety that can feel impossible to navigate alone. Our family law specialists understand that divorce isn’t just a legal process—it’s a life-changing event that affects every aspect of your wellbeing. With compassionate guidance and strategic advice, we help you find clarity amid the chaos and build a pathway to a positive future.

Our divorce and family law specialists are highly regarded for their experience, approach and empathy in helping people resolve issues around finances, children, property business interests and the other complications that come with a divorce.

At Kabir Family Law we have developed a growing strong team of family law specialists across multiple locations in the UK whilst offering 24/7 legal advice to ensure that somebody is always on-hand to answer and resolve your legal queries whilst your case is open.

What family law cases do you work with?

As a leading family law firm, we are one of the handful of legal specialists with the strength to nationally assist with every type of family law case; ranging from a straightforward divorce, child custody dispute to enforcement of financial settlements involving international assets.

Our team can help assist you on a wide range of family law matters that include:

• Divorce
• Financial settlements
• Challenging financial settlements
• Cohabitation agreements
• Child arrangements or issues such as child custody, child contact, child abduction, child residence, grandparents rights
• Injunctions such as non-molestation orders or occupational orders

Our specialist experience allows us to understand what you’ll be going through so we can guide you through the process whatever your legal needs and be on hand to fight your interests; you can rest assure on us not to give up until we help you secure a resolution that is best for you.

We have a wide network of offices across the UK with experts who are leaders in their field. For a consultation with one of our family law specialist call us on 0330 094 5880 or contact us online to arrange a callback.

Our Approach to Family Law Advice

We aim to provide practicable family law advice that is aimed to tackle your situation in the most constructive and positive way possible. We encourage reaching an agreement where possible in order to avoid Court proceedings and help minimise legal costs.

If your case needs to be negotiated our family law experts are best placed to ensure a fair outcome is reached for you.

Child law disputes

Kabir Family Law are renowned for their particular expertise in dealing with children law disputes and have been successful helping countless clients resolve child arrangements; whether this is securing joint custody, stopping contact to varying a Child Act Order, our strong team are on hand to advise you through the process.

Your children’s wellbeing is undoubtedly your primary concern during family breakdown. Our child law specialists approach every case with sensitivity to the emotional needs of children while fiercely advocating for arrangements that protect their best interests. We understand that maintaining meaningful relationships with both parents is usually beneficial for children, but we also recognize situations where safety and stability must take precedence. Our family lawyers have extensive experience helping parents, grandparents, and step-parents navigate the complexities of child arrangements with compassion and strategic thinking

We are proud to have the national strength to assist clients across the UK concerning all aspects of child law matters.

Tailored family law advice

We listen to understand your needs to get a clear picture of your circumstances so we are able to provide you with practicable and tailored family law advice that will assist you securing a result that’s right for you.

What We See in First Consultations

Drawn from matters our family law specialists advise on every week. Details changed to protect client confidentiality.

Most people apologise for calling.

They tell us they’re probably overreacting, or that it’s not that bad yet. It usually is that bad, and you don’t need to justify picking up the phone. Nobody who calls us is wasting our time.

You’ve probably waited longer than you needed to.

By the time we speak to someone, contact has often already stopped, or money has already moved. That doesn’t make the situation unfixable — it just makes it more expensive than it had to be. If you’re reading this and wondering whether it’s too early to get advice, it isn’t.

The thing you call about often isn’t the thing that matters most.

Someone rings to ask about starting a divorce and, ten minutes in, mentions they’ve been locked out of the house, or that their child wasn’t returned on Sunday. We listen for that before anything else. Injunctions and emergency child matters don’t wait for a convenient appointment.

We will tell you if you don’t need us yet.

Sometimes the honest answer is to go back and try one more conversation, or to wait for a document, or to do nothing this month. We’d rather say that than open a file.

Court is the last resort, not the plan.

Most of what we handle settles by negotiation. We advise on proceedings when the other side won’t engage, when there’s a safeguarding concern, or when only an order will make something stick.

What you can prove matters more than how unfair it feels.

This is the hardest thing to hear when you’re upset, and we say it gently. Whether it’s hidden finances or a missed handover, outcomes turn on what’s written down. On day one we’ll tell you what to start keeping — dates, messages, receipts — because the version of this you can evidence in six months is the version that counts.

What happens when you call

You’ll speak to a family law specialist, not a call handler. 15 minutes, free, no obligation. We’ll work out what’s urgent, what’s realistic, and what it’s likely to cost — and you’ll come off the call knowing your options, including the option of not acting yet.

Common Family Law Questions

Do I need a specialist, or can I handle this myself?

Plenty of people handle straightforward matters alone, and we’ll tell you if yours is one of them. Where it usually goes wrong is anything involving disclosure of finances, an order that needs to be enforceable, or a child arrangements dispute where the other side has representation. The applications themselves are rarely the hard part — meeting the evidential standard is.

How much does this cost?

It depends on whether the other side engages. A matter that settles by negotiation costs a fraction of one that reaches a contested final hearing. We give you a cost estimate at the first consultation and tell you when spending more stops being worth it. Court fees are separate from advice costs, and fee remission is available if you’re on a low income or certain benefits.

Will I have to go to court?

Probably not. Most matters settle without proceedings. You’ll usually need to attend a MIAM — a mediation assessment — before applying to court on children or finance matters, with exemptions for domestic abuse and urgent cases. Court becomes necessary when the other side won’t engage, when there’s a safeguarding concern, or when only an order will make something binding.

How long will it take?

An agreed outcome can be weeks. A contested children matter with a CAFCASS report and a fact-finding hearing runs to many months, and that’s outside anyone’s control — court listing times are what they are. We’ll give you a realistic range at the outset rather than the one you’d prefer to hear.

What should I bring to the first consultation?

Any existing court orders, correspondence from the other side or their representatives, and a rough timeline of what’s happened and when. If money is the issue, bring what you know about the assets. If it’s children, bring dates. You don’t need it organised — we’d rather see it messy than not see it.

My ex has already instructed someone. Am I behind?

No, and this is one of the most common worries we hear. Being second to get advice doesn’t disadvantage you. What does disadvantage you is responding to correspondence without advice, or agreeing something in writing before you understand what you’re agreeing to.

Can you help if I’m not in York, Newcastle, London, Cardiff, Nottingham, Oxford or Northampton?

Yes. We advise clients nationally, by phone and video as well as in person, and family proceedings are dealt with in the court local to the child or the parties regardless of where your adviser sits.

What if I just want to know where I stand?

That’s a legitimate reason to call, and a lot of first consultations are exactly that. You’re not committing to anything by asking.

Talk to one of specialist today to arrange a consultation for family law advice

If you wish to arrange a consultation with one of our family law experts call us on 0330 094 5880 or contact us online and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible. Our family law team have helped hundreds of families in and out of Court win an outcome that is suited to them. We are sure that we can also help you too.