Our specialists in private children’s law barristers have a distinguished history of providing advice and advocacy in disputes between parents about children’s arrangements for all sectors of society, in all levels of court, in London and throughout England and Wales.
Our experts in private children’s law provide:
- Advice, written and in person
- Representation and advocacy in court
- Mediation
- Collaborative law
- Early neutral evaluation
- Arbitration
on all issues relating to the care and upbringing of children arising as a result of the end of a relationship through divorce, dissolution, separation or death.
Areas of disagreement in private children’s law we come across may include child custody, arrangements for where the children should live or what time they should spend with each parent, specific issues such as schooling or medical treatment, or taking children aboard temporarily or permanently.
Our private children’s law specialist family barristers also have experience of representing grandparents and other family members, complex and intractable disputes, enforcement of orders relating to children’s arrangements, and protecting children from publicity.
4PB’s private children’s law barristers have significant experience in urgent cases requiring injunctions, wardship or involving the inherent jurisdiction of the courts. They are leaders in the following fields of family law: child custody, parental abduction, adoption and surrogacy, the law relating to assisted conception, gay and lesbian co-parenting, and forced marriage.
4PB houses leading experts on the international movement of children, and children’s financial arrangements after parental separation.
