Turcan Connell’s Family Law team is widely recognised as the leading practice in Scotland for high-net-worth divorce cases. We handle all aspects of separation, divorce, dissolution of civil partnerships, cohabitation, and issues arising from relationship breakdown, whether of a financial nature or concerning the care of children. High-value prenuptial and postnuptial agreements are a significant aspect of the team’s work. We are also increasingly instructed in donor conception and adoption, and Lindsey Ogilvie is winning new external instructions – taking advantage of her extended rights of audience in the High Court. With partner-level expertise in Scottish and English law, the team acts in many cross-jurisdictional divorces, involving share and business valuations, farming and partnership matters, as well as employee incentive schemes. The complexity of work and breadth of case management demonstrates our team’s ability to represent any family client need. The team’s combined skills, knowledge and experience, honed over many years, enables them to address intricate client concerns, including:

Complex, cross-border and multi-jurisdictional cases;
Advice to expats, considering choice of law within the UK and abroad;
Sensitive donor conception issues, surrogacy and adoption;
Challenging and highly charged financial disputes;
Discreet representation of clients in the public eye;
The protection of family wealth in matrimonial, prenuptial, postnuptial and cohabitation agreements.

Gillian Crandles, our Managing Partner and Head of Family Law, is accredited as a specialist in Family Law by the Law Society of Scotland, and is the only family lawyer in the country to be recognised as an Eminent Practitioner by Chambers UK. She is also dual-qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales, and is often instructed in cross-border cases. Meanwhile, our Partner Lindsey Ogilvie is one of only five family law solicitors in Scotland with extended rights of audience as a solicitor advocate, enabling her to appear in the highest civil court in Scotland in lieu of a barrister/advocate. She is one of three Edinburgh-based accredited specialists in both Child and Family Law by the Law Society of Scotland, and part of a small group of practitioners preparing to address the Law Society of Scotland to create a new accreditation in donor conception / family creation.

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