Family Law Services
We offer a full range of Family Legal Services. Whether you are embarking upon living together or whether your marriage has broken down and you require advice we can help and in most cases can offer a fixed fee.
Laker Legal Solicitors In Lancaster
Our head Lancaster office is based close to Lancaster Castle and we serve clients throughout the Lancaster and Morecambe areas.
Whether you want a face to face appointment or want to deal with us remotely via email, video or telephone, we tailor our services to your needs.
Family Law
We offer a full range of Family legal services from private children matters, divorce, financial matters upon divorce, to drafting of bespoke legal documents such as prenuptial agreements, living together agreements and separation agreements.
Our Solicitors in Lancaster frequently appear throughout the Family Courts in the local area and have a wealth of experience in all family law areas. They are members of Resolution and the Family Mediation Consortium. Our Richard Hirst is very well known throughout the Lancaster area and established a Law firm in the Lancaster area over a period of 2 decades.
Residential Conveyancing
We offer a full residential conveyancing service whether you are buying or selling a property ranging from freehold properties to leasehold properties and new builds. Lancaster is very much intertwined with Morecambe and we serve the Morecambe area and it`s valued clients equally.
Our firm is accredited with the CQS mark which stands for Conveyancing Quality Scheme
We offer a range of fixed fees for all conveyancing which is based upon the value of the property, whether you are buying or selling the property and whether it is leasehold or freehold, registered land or unregistered land.
Commercial Property
Our Commercial Property team is headed up by Stephen Ogden and he has a wide range of experience in all commercial lease and commercial property related matters. Our team can advise on commercial lease drafting, development and finance, sub-leasing and assignment, service charge and ground rent disputes and any other commercial property related dispute.
Will Writing
We offer a full Will writing service and can offer a range of fixed fees whether you require a single Will for yourself or a mirror will for you and your Partner / Spouse.
Probate & Intestacy
Our Solicitors and Lawyers deal with a wide variety of estate work, ranging from straightforward applications for Grants of Probate through to locating potential beneficiaries arising out of intestate estates.
Some of our Solicitors have acted for families in the Lancaster and Morecambe for many decades. Our Richard Hirst who has acted for many families in the local area since the 1970`s and continues to do so to this day.
Contentious Probate
We deal with a wide variety of work in this area, from removing executors for breach of their executor duties to bringing claims on behalf of Beneficiaries pursuant to the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants ) Act 1975.
We follow the ACTAPS code of conduct and our Solicitors are very experienced in these complex and highly emotional types of disputes.
Civil Litigation
We undertake a wide range of civil litigation matters usually of medium to high value and of significant complexity. Including building and landscaping disputes, professional negligence matters.
Our Quality Mark
You can be assured of high quality at Laker Legal Solicitors as we have been awarded the Law Society’s Lexcel Accredited Quality Mark for high standards of client care and practice management.
This quality mark is only awarded to Solicitor’s Practices which have undergone an external independent assessment of all their client care policies and case and file management systems.
We are of course authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority of England and Wales.
At Laker Legal we have obtained this quality mark because we know that all our clients want the very best quality of legal service available. We also believe that they want and deserve the best value for money.
Supporting Local Charities
We are proud to have supported a variety of local charities throughout Lancaster, Bay and South Lakes areas and continue to do so as follows :
- Great North Air Ambulance
- St. John’s Hospice
- North West Air Ambulance
- Ambleside Sports Association
- Lancaster Bull Dogs 12 hour Spin
- Lancaster Bulldogs Wheelchair Basketball Club
- Unique Kidz & Co
- Brathay Trust
