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Woolley & Co can prepare a separation agreement for a fixed fee.
What is a Separation Agreement?
This is for couples who may or may not have been married but who intend to separate.
Financial and other arrangements are set out in a legal document. Your lawyer will obtain the information needed from you and create an agreement for your signature.
Woolley & Co can prepare a separation agreement for a fixed fee.
What’s included in the Fixed Fee?
You will be allocated a lawyer to draft the agreement from amongst our team of fully qualified and experienced family law experts.
You will be provided with email, direct dial and mobile telephone contact numbers for your lawyer and be served under the terms of our Client Charter which includes a number of guaranteed service standards offered to all clients.
The fixed fee assumes that you have agreed the general nature of what you would like to happen if your relationship ends.
The fee includes our work in:
- Obtaining the information we need to be able to draft the agreement
- Telling you of issues you might wish to consider
- Telling you what financial information is needed and putting that in order (you will need to obtain the information yourself) See important note below.
- Drafting the agreement
- Arranging for correct signature
- Storing the original agreement
We make an allowance (in addition to the drafting) for putting items in order, discussions and advice to you.
The fixed fee is not appropriate in those exceptional cases where there are, for example, a lot of discussions about exactly what should be in the agreement or where there are disagreements between the parties. If you think that this might apply contact a Woolley & Co lawyer and they will provide you with a detailed quote.
The fixed fee excludes advice on what agreement you ought to make as that would be based upon a detailed consideration of all of your financial information and would need reports from IFAs and so on. We will however, advise you of the issues you ought to include in your agreement.
Note: The Courts have made clear that this sort of agreement is only likely to be followed by them if both parties have exchanged detailed financial information about their circumstances. This applies even if you believe you know them already.
Why Pay a Fixed Fee?
By paying a fixed fee at the start of your case you have certainty about the costs involved. The alternative is to pay an hourly rate (currently £195 plus VAT) for the time your lawyer spends on your case. We believe you should pay for the work that needs to be done, rather than the time it takes to do it.
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