NEW YEAR DIVORCE?

Every year, The vast majority of us start the year with a New Year resolution. Some of us will join a gym, some of us will begin a new diet in order to improve your physique. Some of us will quit smoking and some of us will quit drinking.




These are all great intentions which come about through a focusing of the mind after the traditional festive season. Unfortunately, this same desire to make a new start also brings about the consideration of things such as divorce! New Year, new start, new life!




Many people and indeed many couples suffer with their thoughts for many years, putting off taking this step because of fears of a very complicated divorce, high legal costs, and many other aspects of consideration such as assets, children, and everything else that they have worked to acquire together as a married couple.




The very thought of going through a divorce is stressful and difficult enough without the added consideration of solicitors costs which will quickly spiral to be ridiculous level, simply because solicitors routinely make cases long winded with lengthy paperwork and procedures which further to the costs.




But why must these legal costs be so high? The answer is: they do not. Imagine if the process were very straight forward, and you were given the very highly specific advice that you need on day one, told exactly what you need to do, and get right to it without dragging it out for many months or even years into a very expensive endeavour?




Now, you can. You can approach a Barrister directly for expert legal advice right from the beginning. You may never have considered this as an option previously, and you would have been correct. Barristers were not always allowed to accept work directly from you as a client, but the rules are different now. Barristers can now be licensed to take on work on a direct access basis which means they can give the advice directly to you, without the need of going through a solicitor, which means that you do not have to pay two sets of legal fees which can reduce your overall costs by as much as 50 to 60% or more.




Many solicitors at some point will instruct a Barrister to act on your behalf in order to receive highly specialised advice on a particular area of law. They may also instruct a Barrister to represent you at court if that is a necessary step. At this point you are not only paying for your solicitor, but also for the Barrister at the same time. By going directly to a Barrister in the first place, you can cut out much of the bureaucracy, and get the detailed and accurate information that you need in your time of despair without unnecessary costs.




Barristers are highly specialised legal experts. The benefits you have by going to a Barrister directly are: legal expertise, expert representation, and very often lower fees.

Author:

Daniel J ShenSmith
ShenSmith Barristers