Family lawyers in Scotland

Our leading team of family lawyers in Scotland are recognised by the Legal Directories as experts in Scottish family law, serving clients across Scotland, including in Glasgow, Edinburgh, the Highlands and Islands and on an international basis.

Scotland has a different set of legislative acts governing family law cases from England and Wales, both in respect of divorce, cohabitation claims and children's cases. The court system is also different in Scotland from that in England & Wales and is governed by different procedures and rules.

Our family law teams

Our Scottish family law services

We can provide specialised advice in relation to any specific Scottish family law matters and assist in any cross border family cases which involve Scotland or which span both Scotland and England & Wales.

Our top family lawyers have the in-depth expertise to guide you through issues including:

Divorce and civil partnership dissolution (Divorce (Scotland) Act 1976 (as amended by the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 and Civil Partnership Act 2004))
International divorce and dissolution
High Net Worth relationship breakdown
Financial Disputes on relationship breakdown (Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985)
Child aliment or maintenance including school fees
Separation agreements
Cohabitation (Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006)
Inheritance disputes
Cross border disputes including intra UK disputes
Wealth protection strategy including prenuptial agreements, postnuptial agreements and cohabitation agreements
Child care arrangements — contact and residence disputes (Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and the Children (Scotland) Act 2020)
Parental rights and responsibilities
Child relocation and abduction including Hague Convention actions.
Grandparent and Step Parent disputes — residence orders for kinship carers
Creating families including by way of adoption, permanence orders, parenthood and surrogacy (Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007)
Children’s hearings/ panels and children’s referral proceedings (Children’s Hearing (Scotland) Act 2011)
LGBTQ+ family law
Arbitration and non-court based options including collaboration
Enforcement of decrees, agreements and child maintenance
Immigration advice for businesses and high net worth individuals.