mfg Solicitors LLP
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With offices in Worcestershire, Shropshire and the West Midlands, mfg are one of the oldest established solicitors in the country, tracing its roots as far back as 1556. We provide a range of legal services for personal, business and rural matters.
For sensitive family matters, we have a team of highly experienced members of the Law Society’s Family Panel and Children Panel who can offer sympathetic and practical advice in relation to all aspects of Family Law.
Our Family Law Team has been independently recognised with Band 1 ranking by Chambers & Partners and Tier 2 ranking by the Legal 500. We are also Family Law accredited by the Law Society for the high quality of our legal expertise in our field.
Our experienced team can provide advice in relation to all areas of family life, from support to new and growing families, to Injunctive applications to protect you from abuse. An non-exhaustive overview of the services offered are detailed below and include:
In relation to you and your relationships:
- Advice on Divorce and Separation and the Financial implications of this
- Family Dispute Resolution & Mediation – supporting and assisting you to come to an agreed settlement outside of Court;
- Enforcement of existing Family Court Orders – for example, previously Ordered provisions for spousal maintenance payments;
- Cohabitation – to include how to safeguard your finances, assets and Property and advising you as to your rights and entitlements both prior to /during cohabitation, and upon separation;
- Civil Partnerships;
- Pre and Post-Nuptial agreements – to outline what you would like to happen to your money, property and arrangements for the children in the event of future divorce;
- Domestic Violence – to include Injunctions to protect you from abuse; and
- Vulnerable Family Member – to include making provisions for family members with learning difficulties or other vulnerabilities.
In relation to Domestic Abuse:
- Help obtaining a Non-Molestation Order, more commonly known as an injunction to stop the abuse;
- Help obtaining an Occupation Order requiring the abuser to leave the home and not return for a specified period;
- Assistance where you have been wrongly accused of Domestic Abuse and a family member is seeking one of the above Orders against you.
Domestic abuse – i.e. physical, sexual, psychological or financial abuse – can effect anyone regardless of race, age, sex and class, don’t suffer in silence.
In relation to Children:
- Contact Arrangements for Children – to include with whom a child should live, and who they should spend time with;
- Applications for Parental Responsibility Orders – where a Father does not have Parental Responsibility;
- Disputes relating to a specific issue in relation to children – including an application to change a child’s name or where the child goes to school;
- Other Issues surrounding Children – to include disputed relocation cases, Fact-Finding Hearings, safeguarding issues and the impact of Domestic Abuse on children;
- Advising Grandparents and other family members in relation to children matters;
- Advice in relation to financial provision for children;
- Enforcement of existing Family Court Orders – for example, if the other parent is not adhering to previously Ordered contact arrangements.
We can offer a dedicated, specialist and approachable solicitor to be by your side though every stage of your matter who will be your consistent point of contact, getting to know you and your requirements, and giving you a high quality, personal service
To arrange an initial consultation with our expert team, please contact your local mfg solicitors office in Birmingham, Bromsgrove, Cleobury Mortimer, Kidderminster, Ludlow, Telford or Worcester.
Get a consultation- Divorce & Separation
- Children Issues
- Pre/post Nups
- Domestic Violence
- Forced Marriages
- Child Abduction
- Grandparents Rights