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COVID 19

Family Matters are working remotely and well equipped to engage with, telephone and video hearings. The technology exists to provide virtual "meeting rooms" and "court rooms". Enquiries can be made via email and telephone on the contact numbers below.

We offer empathetic advice and representation in the following areas:

Family Law

The Problem

Working in the legal profession for the since 1991, we are fully aware of the various problems you face if you or your child or children become the subject of the child protection system in the United Kingdom.

We fully appreciate that when we enter your lives it is often when you are at your lowest ebb and often you are working without useful and relevant tools in an environment that is unfamiliar to you.

We fully appreciate that family life is precious and any undue interference can cause the family unit to fracture and fall apart.

Our Promise

We promise to work with you to find solutions to the problems you face or are to face as you enter and move through the child protection world including the family court justice system.

We promise to always have you and your family at the centre of our thinking about how to help you achieve the best outcome for you and each member of your family.

We promise to do no harm.

We promise to work for the highest good of all concerned.

We promise to honour you and your ability to make decisions that are for your highest good.

Our Purpose

Our purpose in your life at this time is to provide you with those tools you will need to achieve the best outcome.

We offer for your use our knowledge skills and experience gained over many years working with children and families, the court justice system, other agencies within the child protection system and personal life experiences.

Our skilled understanding of how in times of crisis, families can fall apart is used to support families through difficult periods in the process of transition.

To provide you with tools that will help you move through this particularly difficult period in family life.

To build trust so that you feel assured that your one family matters.

To remain focussed on helping you achieve the best outcome particularly when events become difficult.

To achieve the best outcome for you and your family facilitating your ability to move on and for you and each family member to reach full their potential.

To honour your personal sovereignty.

Our Products

We provide you with a bespoken holistic service focussed on your particular needs which will always include:

A toolkit designed for use immediately to assist in tackling issues arising with your family right now.

A toolkit designed to facilitate your working with professional agencies who have become involved with your family.

Educational material around the processes involved in the child protection system which help to build resilience and emotional intelligence.

Workshops/seminars to facilitate resilience and emotional intelligence building.

A specialist and bespoken legal service that includes consultancy, written opinions and material and advocacy services when and if required.

Our Proof

We represent the living proof that our approach to family issues work.

We have longevity in the provision of these services gained since 1989. Our longevity of service is your evidence that we will deliver on the promises we make.

Individual testimonies are available of how our involvement has helped and in some circumstances changed the course of events facilitating a new way or solution to be found.

Our central involvement and work in the legal case of RE B-S which has brought about changes for many families and will continue to do so for families in the future. It is further proof of our commitment to achieving better outcomes for families, doing no harm and working for the highest good of all concerned.

See the “what Family Matters has achieved for its clients” page.

If you wish to achieve a better outcome for yourself and your family your choice will be us, Family Matters (incorporating the charitable organisation “This One Family Matters”

Our Vision and Mission

Vision

Family Matters sees a world where the power of love has replaced the love of power. Family Matters sees a legal system that inspires and supports sustainable, beneficial, re-generative behaviours, relationships and enterprises - a system that allows individuals, organisations and communities to conduct all their legal affairs in alignment with their values, their principles and their vision for a better world.

Mission

Family Matters’ mission is to inspire and empower clients. Inspiring clients means acknowledging that each client has the power to influence and change their own lives.

Empowering clients means providing support to clients in conducting their legal affairs in alignment with their values, their principles and their vision for a better world and to stimulate and sustain positive relationships and enterprises, with positive results and proceeds - for Family Matters clients, for the local and global communities and for future generations.

This process of empowerment sees clients being provided with tools that can be used to produce better outcomes for all concerned.

Our Principles and Values

In the service of Family Matters Vision and Mission, Family Matters practices law in accordance with the following principles:

Winning does not require a loser.
Safety is mutual or it is not real safety. [1]
Working collaboratively with others and together with them designing sustainable, beneficial and enjoyable relationships and enterprises which is far better than engaging as opposing forces trying to win an advantage for one party over the other.
Taking the time for open, straightforward communication and achieving mutual comprehension and clarity (even when it is uncomfortable) is worthwhile - essential even, for creating and maintaining successful, sustainable and enjoyable relationships, transactions and businesses/organisations.
Addressing conflict and crisis need not involve coercion or manipulation.

[1] “Safety” as used here means having sufficient predictability so that one’s expectations are reasonably assured, enabling one to plan and venture with well founded confidence that one will retain the power to take a meaningful role in responding to changing circumstances and will have an equal voice and be treated fairly should conflict arise.

Client Role

Family Matters expect clients to take an active, fully engaged role throughout negotiation of their cases and drafting of written agreements.
Family Matters value honesty, reliability, excellence, responsiveness, kindness and enjoyment.
Family Matters believe that integrity (consciously aligning one’s actions with ones deeply held values) is the cornerstone of any worthwhile endeavour.
Each client acting in integrity and taking responsibility for his/her actions/desires is key to Family Matters willingness to be involved in the client's family affairs.
Family Matters values honest communication and striving for clarity even when events make them appear uncomfortable. When it comes to both personal and professional behaviour, Family Matters believe the best guide is the Golden Rule.

* The wording of our Vision, Mission, Principles and Values statement is adopted from language created by Linda Alvarez, Esq. to describe her la practice in the USA and is used here by permission. To find out more about Linda and her work, go to www.discoveringagreement.com