Farming Families.

Whether you’re wanting to cohabit or marry, or your relationship has come to an end, we’ll provide you with legal advice that is tailored to your situation. Our team of family lawyers has extensive experience of farming divorces and the difficulties these cases can present.

Farming divorces are unique, fact specific and often involve highly charged emotions. It is essential that the correct strategy is adopted from the outset and that is what our team prides itself on getting absolutely right.

We are experts in recognising and navigating the particular issues which affect farming cases, such as:

• Low liquidity
• The possibility of parties being capital rich but income poor
• The implications of a sale
• Home, business, livelihood, income stream and identity being inextricably linked
• A volatile trading climate
• Inherited assets passed through generations and expectation that assets will be passed to future generations
• Wider family ownership
• Complex ownership of land and business structures
• Diversification
• Impact on third parties
• Trust arrangements
• Inheritance and succession planning
• Complex valuation exercises
• Development potential
• ‘Matrimonial’ and ‘non-matrimonial’ assets.

We also understand the importance of protecting a farming business from the consequences of a potential future divorce and we regularly advise on pre- and postnuptial agreements involving farming assets. We appreciate that no-one wishes to dwell for long thinking about marriage breakdown before (or shortly after) your wedding, but planning ahead is essential for every farming family – it could mean the difference between the business being sold or continuing for the benefit of future generations.

With a proactive approach, we explore all aspects of your farming separation or divorce, including property and land, financial settlements, asset protection, and child arrangements. Our aim is to find constructive solutions that preserve your family's well-being and the future of your farming enterprise.

Our specialist family law solicitors will provide expert legal advice on all aspects of family law, including:

• Cohabitation
• Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
• Separation and Divorce
• Civil Partnership Dissolution
• Financial Settlement
• Arrangements regarding children
• Special Guardianship
• Change of name.

We’re proud to have been recognised for our ‘client-first’ approach. The Legal 500 noted that the Family team ‘never fails to impress with knowledge, empathy and support’, ‘took the stress away and was proactive’, and ‘give a very prompt and personal service’.

We are always glad to receive glowing endorsements from our agricultural clients, coming out the other side of their dealings with Family Law. We would be honoured to help you through the process too.