
Simon Mortimer
Head of Family
Personal Family
Cases Involving Children
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.

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- Overview
- Divorce And Separation
- Divorce And Separation FAQs
- Collaborative Family Law
- Financing Your Divorce
- Dealing with Finances (property, maintenance, pensions, business)
- Expats
- Farming Divorces
- Family Business
- Divorce and Older Couples
- Living Together
- Cases Involving Children
- Children Law FAQs
- Adoption
- Child Support / Maintenance
- Special Guardianship
- Emergency Applications
- Surrogacy
- Prenuptial Agreement
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Simon Mortimer
Head of Family

Vikki Porthouse
Associate Chartered Legal Executive

Emma Armstrong
Associate Solicitor

Charlotte Seymour
Trainee Solicitor
Alex Terry
Trainee Solicitor
Vikki Porthouse
Associate Chartered Legal Executive
Vikki is an Associate Chartered Legal Executive in Burnetts' Family team
Charlotte Seymour
Trainee Solicitor
Charlotte is a Trainee Solicitor in Burnetts' Family team