Family is the most important thing in life. Therefore, a happy family cannot be compared to anything in life.
Regrettably, family relationships can sometimes break down. Such breakdowns can be very traumatic, distressing and stressful. The emotional distress can sometimes cause serious problems that render many strong people quite vulnerable, affect their concentration and ability to resolve very important issues that may have consequences for the future.
As the legal process involved in satisfactorily resolving the issues can be quite complex and confusing, lawyers and non-lawyers alike faced by relationship breakdowns, need expert advice and support from the best legal minds. This helps them in relieving the stress and managing the complex issues that are usually involved in relationship breakdowns. This where we come in.
At Corper Solicitors, we pride ourselves with the ability to listen to our clients from the moment they approach us with their family issues. Our family lawyers are very experienced, passionate and compassionate and will always listen and support our clients all the way.
We will work with our clients by advising and supporting them with the decisions they with the benefit of our advice. We encourage mediation and mutually respectable ways of resolving issues between parties through their respective lawyers and save our client the stress of dealing with usually very emotional issues which may sometimes impair their ability to make salient life changing decisions.
Ensuring that our clients achieve the best results is always our topmost priority. We are proud to say that we have maintained a very high standard in this respect and continue to aspire to do even better by keeping abreast of changes in law and society.
We are aware that having one solicitor from the onset to the very end assists in building the confidence of clients and therefore always strive to ensure that our clients work with a solicitor of their choice from the beginning until the end. We have other solicitors who would assist from time to time if the assigned solicitor is unavailable but our clients are always informed whenever this may be the case due to holidays, attendance in court or absence due to ill health.
To ensure that our clients get the best outcome which is in their best interests, we are always prompt to seek expert advice on unusual or complex legal issues pertaining to our clients’ cases and act on such expert opinions in our resolution of our clients’ issues. We have a network of expert Barristers, Accountants, Independent Social Workers and others who work alongside us.
As it is important that our clients understand the process and get the most desired outcome, we are always sincere, open and direct in our advice. We believe that this goes a long way in helping our clients to make informed decisions, manage their expectations well and seek what is right and possible for all parties.
We can assist you with the following:
- Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements
- Marriage/matrimonial advice
- Separation advice and agreements
- Divorce
- Financial settlements / maintenance following Divorce and Separation
- Residence / Contact / Custody of children (now known as Child Arrangement Orders)
- Care Proceedings
- Child Abduction
- Injunctions against Domestic abuse, Non-molestation orders and Occupation orders
- Relationship agreements such as
- Civil partnerships agreements
- Cohabitation / living together agreements
- Advice on the validity of overseas marriages and divorces, such as Muslim, Hindu and African customary and traditional marriages
- Arranged marriages
- Honour killing
- Advising cohabitating and unmarried couples on the financial arrangements upon separation.