Our Liverpool family solicitors act for families throughout Merseyside and the surrounding regions. Whether you're based in Liverpool, Chester, North Wales, Ormskirk, Southport, St Helens or Wirral, our Liverpool family solicitors are here to help you.
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The team provides an exceptional service of early, clear and realistic advice, very high attention to detail, considered and careful analysis of all realistic angles, and options to ensure that every step is taken at the appropriate time to ensure that the client's interests are best promoted and secured.
Legal 500 2026
The team offers a professional service. All of the members of the team I have dealt with have been knowledgeable and committed to getting the best result for the client.
Legal 500 2026
The care taken by the team is remarkable and reassuring for clients.
Legal 500 2026
An efficient team performing at a high level.
Legal 500 2026
A wonderful team who offer pragmatic advice whilst robustly defending the interests of their clients.
Legal 500 2026
Weightmans family law department is very dynamic. Being part of a larger firm means that they are able to draw on the expertise of other departments in the firm, which can be extremely helpful.
Legal 500 2025
Highly specialised family law team with a breadth of experience.
Legal 500 2025
The team at Weightmans is well known and respected in the family law market... They approach complex family law matters in a straightforward manner that is focused on resolution for their clients.
Legal 500 2025
The team is made up of extremely capable individuals dealing with complex and high-net-worth work. They are all technically very sound and work in a collaborative way with other lawyers.
Legal 500 2025
Weightmans have expanded hugely their family law capacity which is testament to their aspirations within this space... Experience, reputation and depth all add to the overall approach.
Legal 500 2025
The family team are totally focused on assisting clients to identify their immediate needs as well as helping them to gain clarity around the future. They take a family focused view and work on the assumption that court action should be avoided if at all possible by working collaboratively with other solicitors.
Legal 500 2025
The team provided fantastic communication and sound advice throughout the process. All possible outcomes and costs were set out at the beginning - they couldn’t have been more helpful.
Chambers 2025
The team showed total professional attention to detail and gave me inspiration to continue even when things seemed unsurmountable.
Chambers 2025
They couldn’t be more efficient and nothing is ever too much trouble for them.
Chambers 2025
Clients get what they pay for at Weightmans in that the preparation is meticulous. They are so good at looking after the client and making sure that everything is where it needs to be.
Chambers 2025
The lawyers are very experienced with knowledge encompassing a broad range of family law issues. They are adept at dealing with cross-border disputes and I would rate them as very strong in this area.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans is very up to speed in the latest legal trends and has good connections with the legal profession.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans has technically competent lawyers with a focus on solutions and the team is very pleasant to deal with, which benefits their clients.
Chambers 2025
Weightmans is efficient, experienced and professional. The team has an excellent range of experiences and ability, and they provide immediate responses.
Chambers 2025
Our family law experts based in Liverpool can help you with a full range of family law matters. Common family law issues that we advise on include:
We are also family mediation experts, who can help to reduce the conflict in family law disputes and offer our One Couple One Lawyer service for those who are going through an amicable divorce.
We work with clients across a wide variety of backgrounds. Our clients include:
Our lawyers have particular expertise in acting for high net worth individuals.
Our family solicitors in Liverpool work closely with external valuers of land, business and digital assets, together with our in-house team of private wealth, corporate law, immigration, employment law and property law experts.
Book my free consultationDon't just take our word for it, here are some of the messages that our Liverpool family solicitors have received from satisfied family law clients, both directly and via independent legal directories.
Our team has won a number of awards for family law in Liverpool and across the rest of the UK. Here are just some of the ways that we've been recognised for our expertise:
About Fiona:
Fiona heads the Liverpool family law team and manages the renowned national family team at Weightmans across our offices. She specialises in financial and children law issues arising out of relationship breakdown with particular expertise in complex divorces involving company, partnership and trust issues.
