Splitting Up Factsheet - Getting legal advice

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Getting legal advice

Note: Where there is violence or threatened abduction it is essential to involve a solicitor at once. If you qualify, emergency publicly- funded help with legal costs is available, your solicitor will help you make the application.

Before you start negotiation and/or mediation you should see a specialist family law solicitor for general advice about your and your child's legal rights. It may also help to get advice during the process as well so that you know what the possible consequences are of the proposals that are being made. This is not the same as asking a solicitor to act on your behalf or starting legal proceedings.

You should always seek legal advice before entering into an agreement, to make sure it is fair to you and your children. If you don't, it may be difficult to change later on and could end up costing you more financially in the long run.

Contact Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association) on 01689 850 227 or see www.resolution.org.uk for details of member solicitors who take a constructive, conciliatory approach to relationship break-ups.

If you are applying for help with the costs, make sure the solicitor has a community legal service contract. Contact Community Legal Service Direct on 0845 345 4345 or see www.clsdirect.org.uk

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