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Family Law is a unique area which necessitates sensitivity, understanding and specific professional specialization to address the legal dynamics emerging from family disputes. When domestic issues cannot be resolved within the home, Family law seeks to restore order and a fair solution to each party involved.
Professional Legal Assistance in Family Law
Practice Areas
- Separation
- Divorce
- Cohabitation & Civil Union Agreements
- Matrimonial Regimes
- Annulments
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- Child Custody Cases
- Adoptions
- Paternity Cases
- Domestic Violence
- Mediation & Litigation
News & Publications in Scotland. - The FIRM Magazine
December 2009
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It all starts so well, and then the trauma of separation overturns everything. In the third of her series analysing law from European perspective Dr. Elaine Gingell Littlejohn looks at how the European Courts have interpreted the principle of prioritising the best interests of child in complex separation cases.
June 2009
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For generations the law's failure to recognise non-marital relationships left cohabitees and homosexuals out in the legal wilderness. Recent provisions have taken steps to address the needs of social reality., although as Dr. Elaine Littlejohn explains, there is still much to be learned from other European jusrisdictions.
January 2009
Breaking up is hard to do, but it could be easier if Scotland adopted principles found other European jurisdictions. Dr. Elaine Littlejohn, a registered Europe lawyer explains that picking up the pieces of an emotional separation need not be traumatic as long as the law puts solutions ahead of recrimination.