Kabir Family Law

Kabir Family Law: a boutique practice focused exclusively on family law

Kabir Family Law presents itself as a boutique firm that deals only with family law, a focus it uses to argue that whatever a client's situation, it will be familiar to the team. The practice describes its approach as listening first in order to understand the client's needs and then matching the case with a specialist whose experience and approach fit the matter. Its stated aim is to secure the result that is right for the client, and it offers a free, no-obligation callback through which enquiries are triaged by a client services team.

The firm's service pages are organised around the areas families most often ask about: family law advice, divorce and financial settlements, child law, grandparents' rights and international family law. Alongside these, the site lists a long catalogue of specific applications, orders and disputes, from prenuptial and cohabitation agreements to occupation, non-molestation and forced marriage protection orders.

Divorce, money and pensions

On the financial side, the practice covers divorce and dissolution of a civil partnership, no-fault divorce, marriage annulment and the historical grounds for divorce before April 2022. It addresses the division of money, property and pensions through financial settlements, financial consent orders, pension sharing orders, spousal maintenance and maintenance pending suit, as well as the enforcement of financial court orders.

More specific pages deal with protecting assets in a divorce, short childless marriages, inheritance and divorce, the Section 25 conduct argument, the treatment of bonuses, cryptocurrency and capital gains tax on divorce, freezing orders and farm divorce settlements. The firm also lists nuptial agreements, Sears Tooth agreements and Xydhias agreements among its legal services.

Children: custody, contact and parental responsibility

Child law is presented as arrangements that put children first. The catalogue includes shared custody arrangements, child contact orders, specific issue orders, special guardianship orders, parental responsibility applications, child maintenance tribunal work and custody for fathers. It also covers step-parent responsibility, removing a name from a birth certificate, adoption orders and taking children abroad, including Article 21 of the Hague Convention on international child access.

Several pages address the practical questions parents raise: reasonable access for fathers, the age at which a child can choose which parent to live with, Gillick competence, parental disagreement over schools, holidays without the father's permission, moving abroad with children, alcohol and drug testing in custody cases, and the Parents Promise. Procedural guidance covers the C100 form, the FHDRA hearing, Section 7 reports, fact-finding hearings and the role of Cafcass.

Complex children law and social services

A separate section is devoted to care and social services proceedings: placement orders, Section 37 and Section 47 reports, social services investigations, discharging a care order, wardship of the court, family assistance orders and the Scott Schedule. It also explains emergency child custody orders, temporary custody, the emergency residence order that preceded current arrangements, variation and enforcement of child arrangement orders, no contact orders and reasons to stop child contact.

The firm lists parental alienation and alienating behaviours, the National Youth Advocacy Service and the question of who gets custody if a parent dies. Grandparents' rights form their own area, covering contact orders for grandparents, temporary custody and guardianship, kinship care, getting custody back from grandparents and the situation of a grandchild with special needs removed from grandparents' care.

Domestic abuse, protective orders and international cases

Protective work includes non-molestation orders, occupation orders, prohibited steps orders, forced marriage protection orders and applications under Clare's Law and Sarah's Law. The site also addresses false allegations of domestic violence, acid attack threats and emergency protection, and it describes acting quickly when a child is taken or kept from a parent, using urgent court orders and international measures.

International family law is treated as a distinct service for cases that cross a border. Pet custody during separation is another listed area, framed around the idea that a pet is family rather than property and that arrangements should protect the bond with the animal.

How the practice presents its work

The firm publishes a set of success stories describing resolved matters: disproving false allegations at a fact-finding hearing, restarting contact and reaching shared care, an unmarried father applying for parental responsibility, parents disagreeing over a school named in an EHC plan, keeping a parent and children in the family home, settling child arrangements alongside a divorce without a contested hearing, a return application after a child was kept abroad, answering a drug misuse allegation before contact resumed, a disagreement over a child's medical treatment, a grandparent becoming a special guardian, answering an alienation allegation, stopping repeated court applications, suspending direct contact in a domestic abuse case and stopping a threatened removal of a child from the UK.

The practice operates several telephone lines listed on the site, including a local-rate number and numbers with the 029, 024, 0203, 0191 and 01604 prefixes, and it invites prospective clients to schedule a callback or book a free consultation.