
Mark Ward
Head of Family
Personal Family
Cases Involving Children
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.
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.

More about our services
- Overview
- Divorce And Separation
- Divorce And Separation FAQs
- 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

Mark Ward
Head of Family

Vikki Porthouse
Senior Associate Chartered Legal Executive

Emma Armstrong
Senior Associate

Liz Wilson
Senior Associate

Hannah Jackman
Apprentice Solicitor

Sarah Gill
Paralegal
Vikki Porthouse
Senior Associate Chartered Legal Executive
Vikki is a Senior Associate Chartered Legal Executive in Burnetts' Family team
Hannah Jackman
Apprentice Solicitor
Hannah is an Apprentice Solicitor in Burnetts' Family team
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