Family Solicitors in Folkestone

Folkestone grew as a harbour town and seaside resort, and Shorncliffe Barracks, on its western edge, is home to a Gurkha community. Service life, postings and family ties overseas can all affect which child arrangements will work after a separation, and they can bear on the wider settlement too. Family and divorce solicitors in Folkestone advise on divorce and civil partnership dissolution, help parents agree time with the children and negotiate financial settlements, from the family home to savings, pensions and child maintenance. They also act for unmarried partners in property disputes and prepare prenuptial and cohabitation agreements. Negotiation and mediation, starting with a MIAM, are used where it is safe, and solicitors can seek urgent protection from abuse through the court when needed. Divorce, children and adoption cases may go to Canterbury Combined Court Centre on Chaucer Road. The Folkestone office of Dover, Deal and District Citizens Advice is at the Rainbow Centre on Sandgate Road and runs drop-in sessions. Confidential domestic abuse support is commissioned across Kent.