Tanfield’s members appear and advise in cases and appeals against decisions in cases involving all aspects of family law including public and private law children disputes, finances on divorce and relationship breakdown from the Family Proceedings Court through the County Court to the High Court and Court of Appeal. Domestic abuse injunctions and fact finds.
Members of the family team are qualified as mediators and are available to arbitrate private Financial Dispute Resolutions and undertake early neutral evaluations.
Public Law (Children)
Members of Tanfield represent Local Authorities both in London, the Home Counties and beyond, parents and children (through their Guardians) in cases of neglect, non-accidental injury, sexual abuse, parental mental illness and drug/alcohol misuse from interim care order stage through to final hearing. Applications to discharge care orders. Adoptions including permission to oppose. Enforcement of orders, mirror orders outside the jurisdiction. Secure accommodation orders. Deprivation of Liberty. Disputes involving which Local Authority should be designated or delegated to carry out work under a care plan or supervision order. Judicial reviews of Local Authority decisions to provide support or services.
Private Law (Divorce)
Contested divorces including cases of void or voidable marriages; validity of foreign marriages or divorces. Applications to stay or set aside decrees.
Private Law (Children)
The broad range of work undertaken Child Arrangement disputes including fact finding, intractable contact and other disputes engaging Rule 16.4 Guardians, Prohibited Steps Orders and leave to remove temporarily or permanently including to non-Hague convention countries. Hague Convention recovery cases. Surrogacy. Forced Marriage Protection Orders. Special Educational Need and Disabilities Tribunal work.
Private Law (Finances)
Financial remedies on divorce or same sex relationship breakdown. S37 MCA avoidance of disposition orders. Freezing injunctions of assets worldwide. Maintenance pending suit and spousal maintenance. Applications for “top-up” financial relief under MFPA 1984 after foreign divorce. Sch 1 Children Act 1989 with or without parallel TOLATA claims. Inheritance Act and contested Probate claims. Legal Services Payments Orders. Social Security and Child Support Tribunal work.
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