Pay as You Go Family Law Help

10/04/2018

Restrictions on access to legal aid have resulted in many people having to represent themselves in court. Navigating the complexities of the law by yourself is not only daunting, but can also not help your cause. So, to help guide you and keep costs down, we’re offering an unbundled service for family law matters.

This is a facility where we help you with parts of the legal process that you’re unable to deal with, without incurring the full cost of us handling the whole matter on your behalf.

This may involve representing you at court, preparing legal documents or drafting letters. The key benefit here is that we can ‘dip in and out’ of your case so that you have access to the legal expertise of a solicitor as well as saving money.

In the first instance, a family law solicitor from Russell and Russell will meet with you so you can agree what parts of your case you want us to work on while you get on with other, less complex or routine tasks. We then act on an hourly rate, invoicing you after each stage so there are no unexpected charges.

Solicitors charge for each action they carry out on a file. This can be anything from sending letters, making calls, reading through and/or preparing documents and advising you on the issues. All this time adds up. If you’re able to do the ‘leg work’ we can advise or act on the specialist areas so that you’re controlling the cost.

We can help with an unbundled service, whether you’re a cohabitee or a spouse, on finances and children matters including child arrangements or relocation issues, divorce and dissolution of civil partnerships.

During the process, if you find that you don’t want to continue on this basis, we can take on the whole case for you and will provide an estimate of our fees.