The ‘outstanding’ Amy Fallows is praised for her ‘professional approach’ and ‘straight-forward and pragmatic advice’. - Legal 500, 2018

Cases involving children require a special sensitivity and specific expertise.

Our child law team deals with difficult family issues like arrangements about where children will live and with whom and other parental rights issues such as family relocation, disputes about schooling and adoption, across Cumbria and beyond.

Burnetts Solicitors has also developed a particular specialism in grandparent rights having provided extensive support to grandparents in cases of contact, residence and Special Guardianship Orders.

Simon Mortimer, Amy Fallows and Katie Wright are accredited specialists with Resolution. Like other Resolution members, they believe in a non-confrontational approach to family law matters but are experienced advocates if court proceedings become necessary. In order to become accredited by the Law Society, solicitors have to demonstrate their in-depth expertise, experience and knowledge.

Our services include:

• Contact with residence of children
• Financial provision for children
• Adoption
• Special Guardianship
• Changing children's names
• Relocation within/outside UK
• Finding of fact
• Paternity
• Tracing and recovery of children
• Surrogacy

Burnetts Solicitors also advises on public law cases involving children in care and cases involving domestic violence.