Family Solicitors - what do they do? Family law tends to be concentrated at the high street end of the legal profession, with the majority of family lawyers dealing with matters for both private or legal services commission funded (legal aid) clients, where there is probably one large asset (a house), a couple of children, and warring parents. Family law is divided up into sectors - there is divorce and ancillary relief (the latter is the financial aspects of divorce - who gets what), children work (contact, residence and restrictions on living arrangements) and injunctions for domestic violence. If you are thinking of doing family law at the higher end of the scale, the majority of the work is ancillary relief - who gets what from the money put together in the marriage. At the lower end, it is likely to be a mix of children and domestic violence with straightforward divorces with no finances involved. Family lawyers tend to be a breed unto themselves. There can be a lot of "my cl...
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