Woolley & Co, Solicitors

Woolley & Co, Solicitors: family law advice across the UK

Woolley & Co, Solicitors presents itself as a leading UK family law firm and states that its lawyers are experienced and trained in all aspects of divorce, the rights of unmarried couples, financial settlements and issues involving children. The firm frames its work around helping clients reach what it describes as the best possible outcome in divorce or matrimonial matters.

The practice operates through a network of lawyers distributed across England and Wales rather than from a single office, and enquiries are allocated to a local lawyer where possible.

Divorce and separation work

Divorce is the firm's broadest area of activity. The service pages cover annulment, the cost of divorce, divorce rights, high net worth divorce, joint divorce applications, no fault divorce and online divorce solicitors, alongside general guides to obtaining a UK divorce. International divorce also appears as a distinct line of work.

On separation, the firm addresses divorce settlements, including bankruptcy and divorce, consent orders, the treatment of limited companies and pensions on divorce, and spousal maintenance, supported by a set of frequently asked questions. Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements are handled as separate services.

Children, unmarried couples and same sex couples

The children's section covers access, child arrangements orders, child custody, grandparents' rights in the UK, leave to remove applications, breach of a maintenance order, parental responsibility, preventing contact, step-parents, and surrogacy and assisted reproduction.

For couples who are not married, the firm advises on cohabitation agreements and on cohabitation disputes and legal rights. For same sex couples, it covers civil partnership dissolution. Family law arbitration is listed as an alternative route within its service range.

How the firm presents its fees and first contact

The site invites prospective clients to request a free 30-minute initial consultation, after which one of the firm's lawyers is to make contact within one working day. Enquiries can be made by telephone or through an online callback form that records contact preferences and basic details about the other party, which the firm says helps it check for conflicts of interest and allocate the case to a local lawyer.

Pricing is addressed through dedicated pages on advice packages, a stated price promise, funding a case and a breakdown of how much a case may cost. The site also offers a detailed case assessment and an expert assessment and advice service for children's matters, and it provides a jargon buster, guides, news, recommended reading, videos and a blog among its reference materials.

National network of offices

Beyond its head office, the firm lists locations in London, Bicester, Birmingham, Buckingham, Burton upon Trent, Cambridge, Cornwall, Derby, Haverfordwest, Hertford, King's Lynn, Market Harborough, Melbourne, Northampton, Norwich, St Neots, Solihull, Stoke on Trent, Sutton Coldfield, Thetford, Truro, Warwick and Wolverhampton.