Stowe Family Law

Stowe Family Law, solicitors specialising in family law in the United Kingdom

Stowe Family Law is a British law firm dedicated to family law. Its team, which the firm itself describes as the largest in the UK in this speciality, advises on divorce, child custody, financial settlements, cohabitation and prenuptial agreements, among other matters. The firm operates from multiple offices across England and Wales, enabling it to handle cases in different jurisdictions within the country.

Areas of practice

The firm's activity is organised around several service areas. In the field of divorce, it handles both court and out-of-court proceedings, and includes specific cases such as high net worth divorce, civil partnership dissolution, Islamic sharia law divorce and online divorce. It also offers mediation, mediation support, collaborative divorce and divorce arbitration as ways to avoid court, as well as a divorce coaching service and a divorce calculator as a guidance tool.

On financial matters, the firm has family finance lawyers and divorce financial settlement solicitors, as well as forensic accountancy services, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, freezing orders and spousal support. The firm also addresses property issues such as the family home, property adjustment orders, Martin and Mesher orders, clean break orders, the impact of divorce on family businesses, mortgages after divorce, cryptocurrency and offshore income.

The child law area includes services for children, special guardianship orders, custody, social services and care proceedings, international child and family law, grandparents' rights, child maintenance and child arrangements orders. The firm also advises on fertility law, with adoption, assisted reproduction, surrogacy, donor conception and LGBTQ+ parenting services, as well as on unmarried couples, with cohabitation and TOLATA claims services. Its offering is completed by the domestic abuse area, which covers physical violence and emotional abuse, coercive control, economic abuse, false accusations, gaslighting, narcissistic relationships, non-molestation orders, post-separation abuse and tech abuse.

Publications and informative resources

The firm's website features an extensive section of guides and informative articles on legal and practical issues. Topics covered include how to choose a divorce lawyer, how to apply for a divorce, how much it costs, how to pay for it, UK divorce timelines, consent orders, conditional and final orders, the role of phones in divorce, the effect of divorce on children, mental health and divorce, silver splitter divorces and older divorce, the history of divorce in the UK and how to find divorce records. It also publishes content on sole custody, specific issue orders, calculating child maintenance payments, changing a child arrangements order, failure to comply with a court order, separated parents' holiday rights, choosing schools, travelling abroad with different surnames and parenting plans.

National coverage and offices

The firm has a presence in a wide range of English and Welsh locations, organised by region. In the East of England it has offices in Aylesbury, Berkhamsted, Bishop's Stortford, Cambridge, Chelmsford, Colchester, Ipswich, Norwich, Peterborough, St Albans and Watford. In London and the surrounding area it operates in Bromley, Camden, Canary Wharf, Chelsea, Croydon, Esher, Hammersmith, Kingston, London Southgate, Richmond, Southwark, Soho and Wimbledon. In the Midlands it has offices in Birmingham, Chesterfield, Derby, Leamington Spa, Leicester, Lichfield, Lincoln, Nottingham, Solihull and Stamford. In the North East, in Durham, Newcastle, North Shields and Sunderland; in the North West, in Altrincham, Bolton, Chester, Knutsford, Liverpool, Manchester, Nantwich, Preston, Stockport, Stoke-on-Trent, Warrington and Wigan. In the South East, in Banbury, Bicester, Bournemouth, Bracknell, Brighton, Canterbury, Chatham, Farnborough, Fleet, Guildford, High Wycombe, Maidenhead, Milton Keynes, Oxford, Portsmouth, Reading, Reigate, Sevenoaks, Slough, Southampton, Stony Stratford, Tunbridge Wells, Winchester, Windsor and Woking. In the South West and Wales, in Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Cheltenham, Exeter, Gloucester, Newbury, Plymouth, Swansea, Swindon and Worcester. In Yorkshire, in Beverley, Harrogate, Huddersfield, Ilkley, Leeds, Middlesbrough, Sheffield, Wetherby and York.

Customer service and reviews

The firm provides a local rate telephone number and a contact form, and maintains a section of client reviews and testimonials. The firm presents itself as the largest team of specialist family law solicitors in the United Kingdom, a statement that corresponds to its own description and not to an independent assessment.