Susan Howarth

Practice Areas

The family department offer a full range of services to both private and publicly funded clients with particular experience in finance and children matters, frequently acting on child arrangements orders and care proceedings, also experienced in advising on cases concerning relocation, abduction and assault.

The firm has the benefit of a Family Law Contract and a Mediation Contract with the Legal Aid Agency to enable the efficient delivery to those eligible for legal aid.

Widely regarded as real market leaders for Family Law services in the region, the team is recognised by their clients, peers, counsel, members of the judiciary and council safeguarding lawyers as being one of the leading small niche family practices in the Northwest.

Consistently recommended and with high retention and referral rates, the team includes 2 directors and a team of highly trained and experienced associate solicitors and lawyers, all of whom fully embrace and embody the firms’ ethos -that everyone has the right to access to justice and the need for excellence in client care and service delivery.

The team are committed to achieving the best outcomes for clients in the most cost effective way possible.

Lexcel-accredited for more than 11 years, the family team won the 2023 and 2022 AI Legal Awards for Best Family and Childcare Law Firm (North West).and have been finalists in the 2020 and 2021 Lexis Nexis Family Law Awards for the Family Law Firm of the Year (North).

The team acts for clients nationwide offering a full range of family law services including:

- Divorce

- High Net Worth

- Separation Agreements

- Financial Settlements

- Children Disputes

- Child Arrangements incl. contact arrangements, residence; and Prohibited Steps/Specific Issue

- Domestic Abuse/Violence

- Civil Partnership dissolution

- Cohabitation Agreements and unmarried couples

- Civil Litigation

- TOLATA – Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996

Career

Susan Howarth is a true specialist in dealing with children, family and injunction cases, often involving domestic abuse, as well as possessing a portfolio of high-value financial remedy mandates.

With over 30 years’ experience specialising in all aspects of Family Law, Susan’s passion for family law and a lifelong commitment and determination to try and make a positive difference to others lives, has been gained from her extensive knowledge, experience, understanding and compassion gained from working in the field of probation and social work for over 20 years.

Susan established Susan Howarth & Company in 1997 and at its heart is a belief that everyone has the right to access to justice and the need for excellence in client care and service delivery. In a legal world of mergers and takeovers she has a determination to remain independent by thriving on in-house expertise and an impressive reputation.

A family lawyer for over 3 decades, Susan’s breadth of legal experience, soundness of legal judgement, pragmatism and a determination to achieve a realistic and fair outcome for all her clients has not only gained her much respect amongst the profession but also a personal reputation as a highly accomplished family lawyer.

Susan has been a member of the Law Society Family Law Panel since 1999 and is the practice Supervisor for WIQS accreditation.

Professional Memberships

• LLB (Hons) Law

• Member of Law Society Family Law Panel

• BA (Hons) Economics

• DASS (Diploma in Applied Social Studies)

Education

Awards