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.
Contact our Solicitors in Lancaster
From our Lancaster office, our team of highly qualified solicitors have years of experience providing clients with a range of legal services. We have a strong client focus and provide straightforward and friendly legal support to the Lancaster community and beyond.
Our head office in Lancaster is based close to Lancaster Castle, and we have built up a fantastic reputation by serving clients throughout the wider Lancashire area.
As a client, you can interact with us in whichever way is most convenient, whether that is remotely via email, video, and telephone or by visiting us in our Lancaster office.
If you would like to discuss our services in a free, no obligation discussion or obtain a quote, get in touch with our solicitors in Lancaster today. As well as our office in Lancaster, we serve clients from Maidstone, Kings Hill, Kendall, Preston and Bath. You can contact us by calling your local office, or simply fill in our enquiry form, and a member of our legal team will be in touch.
How to reach our Lancaster office by appointment only
Reach us by car
If you plan on reaching our Lancaster office by car, you should be aware that the Giant Axe car park is only a minute’s walk from our door.
Reach us by bus
We are also lucky enough to have a bus stop serving the 4 and 4X right outside, with many additional services like the 1A, 4, 555 and 40 departing from the nearby bus (11 minute walk).
Reach us by train
The Lancaster station is only a three-minute walk from the office.
Plan your journey
To plan your journey ahead of time, please use this link.
Accessibility
Our team at Laker Legal Solicitors in Lancaster is dedicated to making our services accessible for everyone. If you have any accessibility needs, please contact us so that we can discuss how best to accommodate you.
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. They have a wealth of experience in all family law areas and are members of Resolution and the Family Mediation Consortium. 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.
Our firm is accredited with the CQS mark which is the Law Society’s Conveyancing Quality Scheme.
We offer a range of fixed fees for all residential conveyancing. This is based upon the value of the property, whether you are buying or selling, whether it is leasehold or freehold. Our online residential calculator can provide you with a fixed fee quote.
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
Our Solicitors in Lancaster 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 in Lancaster 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. 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.
Solicitors practices are only eligible to receive this quality mark if they have undergone an external independent assessment of all client care policies, 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
- Lancaster Bull Dogs 12 hour Spin
- Lancaster Bulldogs Wheelchair Basketball Club
- Unique Kidz & Co
- Brathay Trust
