Fee's & Managing Cost

Costs in family law cases can quickly become a major problem for parents, and alongside the stress and time investment that accompanies navigating family court it can be difficult to cope with the demand.  We are not able to offer clients pro-bono, we simply don't have the resources to allow for that, and in all cases we bill in advance and hold money on account, asking clients to top up when the account funds become depleted.  That said, it is likely that assistance with your case on a like for like basis (or hourly rate comparison) with a firm of solicitors will be anything from 60% to 80% lower in cost.  But, in contrast to most family law firms we believe that our difference in approach will result in significantly fewer hours of support being required to reach agreement for the following reasons:

1. Our work is underpinned by the use of Artificial Intelligence tools built for use in legal practices, this makes us more time efficient both with reviewing large numbers of documents, drafting statements and applications, retrieving information from case files relevant to correspondence, ensuring accuracy and identifying relevant case law to support your case, alonside many other uses.  The use of AI in our practice we estimate has led to us doubling our productivity, thereby lowering the cost to clients substantially over the course of their case. 
2. Solicitors firms business objectives are to maximise billable hours, and it is common for disputes to be amplified and extended to achieve this.  Our objective at the outset is to resolve the issues that have led to your litigation as quickly and fairly as possible, ideally leaving both parents in as good shape as is possible in the circumstances they are faced with, so that they can go forward into a calm,  positive and healthy coparenting relationship.
3. We encourage our clients to engage fully in creation of the work product required to conclude your case, much of this work is administrative, collation of evidence, seeking to fully understand the barriers to resolving the dispute and crafting solutions to overcome those barriers.  A fully engaged client will always achieve a better outcome sooner and at a substantially lower overall cost.  You are, afterall, the expert in your own case.  
4. Where the opposing side is adversarial, we work hard to reduce the temperature of the dispute and highlight any attempts by them to inflame or prolong the case or avoid sensible resolution.  In our experience this makes them far more wary of continuing in that mode of conducting their clients case and more likely to engage with sensible approaches to resolving the dispute.  
5. Self employed clients should discuss terms of engagment that will be beneficial in terms of lowering exposure to the cost of taxation.