Ranking tables

Family/Matrimonial | UK

Thames Valley

Our Family/Matrimonial tables rank law firms and lawyers who deal with issues surrounding the inception and breakdown of personal relationships. This includes the creation of pre-nuptial, civil partnership and cohabitation agreements relating to financial and property assets, the resolution of divorces or separations involving financial and property disputes, and the handling of matters relating to children in the context of divorce or separation. Public law proceedings related to children in care may also be included, as may work relating to surrogacy and fertility law. All regions also feature a sub-table designed to highlight the leading family mediators in that region.

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  1. Richard PhillipsMachins Solicitors LLP

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Band 1

  1. Blandy & Blandy
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    Blandy & Blandy
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 1 | 2 Years Ranked

    The team at Blandy & Blandy handles complex divorce, separation and financial remedy matters, including cases involving businesses, inherited wealth and trusts. The team also represents clients in Children Act matters, including contact and custody disputes, as well as international surrogacy arrangements. It offers clients the benefit of expertise in the full range of alternative dispute resolution methods, including mediation, arbitration and collaborative law. Blandy & Blandy has offices in Reading, Henley-on-Thames and Wokingham.

  2. Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne LLP
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    Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 1 | 2 Years Ranked

    Boardman, Hawkins & Osborne in Abingdon handles challenging and serious proceedings involving children, including adoption issues, changes of residence and contact disputes. The team is experienced in cases involving abuse and non-accidental injury, as well as other complex criminal law aspects. The firm also advises clients on forced marriage protection orders and financial remedy proceedings.

  3. Debenhams Ottaway
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    Debenhams Ottaway
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 1 | 2 Years Ranked

    Debenhams Ottaway frequently advises on high-value financial remedy proceedings involving trusts, overseas assets and pensions, as well as assisting with the creation of prenuptial and postnuptial agreements. The firm additionally handles a range of children law matters, including child maintenance, residence and potential abduction issues. The St Albans-based team is able to provide clients with the benefit of its wider capabilities in private wealth matters.

  4. Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
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    Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 1 | 2 Years Ranked
    Penningtons Manches Cooper has a strong regional presence with standout teams in both Reading and Oxford. The firm often handles cases with a strong international element, including cross-border disputes in which children are involved, advising on care arrangements, changes of residence and Schedule 1 applications. The firm frequently advises high net worth individuals on complex financial settlements, involving inheritance issues, trusts and complicated business aspects. It is able to offer alternative dispute resolution options, including mediation.
  5. Rayden Solicitors
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    Rayden Solicitors
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 1 | 2 Years Ranked

    Rayden Solicitors is a boutique family law firm based in St Albans, known in the market for its work in both matrimonial finance and private children law matters. The team advises high net worth individuals and foreign nationals on complex separation and asset division cases, often including trust structures, overseas assets and business interests, along with child arrangements and maintenance disputes. The firm is also equipped to offer alternatives to litigation and able to advise on nuptial agreements.

  6. SA Law
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    SA Law
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 1 | 2 Years Ranked
    SA Law has a skilled team based in St Albans handling complex child law and divorce matters. The firm has particular expertise in advising high net worth individuals on financial remedy proceedings involving international assets and spousal maintenance orders. The team represents clients in collaborative proceedings and mediation, as well as in contentious matters involving highly sensitive aspects, including parental alienation, mental health issues and domestic abuse. The firm can also handle surrogacy matters.
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Band 2

  1. B P Collins LLP
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    B P Collins LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 2 | 2 Years Ranked

    BP Collins is a Gerrards Cross-based firm handling complex financial remedy work in the context of divorce and relationship breakdown, including work relating to overseas and inherited assets and tax structures. The team also advises on children-related matters, including residence issues and relocation. The firm provides further expertise with regard to prenuptial agreements.

  2. Crane & Staples
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    Crane & Staples
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 2 | 2 Years Ranked

    Crane & Staples offers a range of family law service from its office in Welwyn Garden City. The firm can advise clients on both public and private children law matters such as child relocation, contact disputes and cases that involve serious allegations of abuse or criminal behaviour. The team also handles financial remedy and advises clients on nuptial agreements.

  3. Field Seymour Parkes
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    Field Seymour Parkes
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 2 | 2 Years Ranked
    Field Seymour Parkes advises on matrimonial finance matters, often in cases involving business interests and property assets. The Reading-based team also acts on highly sensitive mandates concerning minors, including Children Act disputes and change of residence cases. It has further experience assisting with complex tax and pension concerns related to divorce, with a notable specialism in cases involving armed forces pensions.
  4. Freeths LLP
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    Freeths LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 2 | 2 Years Ranked
    Freeths houses a highly regarded team in Oxford that advises clients on financial remedies and childcare arrangements in the context of relationship breakdown. The team is experienced in representing clients in asset division matters involving overseas assets and complex business interests, as well as in maintenance enforcement proceedings. It offers robust ADR capabilities, including mediation services.
  5. Attwaters Solicitors
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 2
  6. Machins Solicitors LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 2
  7. Purcell Solicitors
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 2
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Band 3

  1. Blake Morgan
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    Blake Morgan
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked

    Blake Morgan's Oxford team is experienced in handling post-separation matters that have financial complexity, including those requiring the division of business assets, trusts and pensions, as well as those involving complex tax issues. The team also advises on sensitive Children Act proceedings and is experienced in handling maintenance variation claims. Blake Morgan offers the full range of alternative dispute methods, including mediation.

  2. Blaser Mills Law
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    Blaser Mills Law
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked

    Blaser Mills Law advises high net worth individuals on intricate financial remedy matters from its offices in High Wycombe, Marlow and Amersham. The firm is experienced in acting in cases where assets in dispute include portfolios of properties and pensions, as well as those involving trusts. The team offers further expertise in drafting prenuptial agreements. It also assists with private children law matters and non-molestation proceedings.

  3. Bross Bennett LLP
    3
    Bross Bennett LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked

    Bross Bennett is involved in a variety of family law matters. Its Hampstead-based team has expertise in financial remedy proceedings and issues relating to children, including child arrangements orders. The team has experience advising foreign nationals as well as high net worth individuals.

  4. Hedges Law
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    Hedges Law
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked
    Hedges Law in Oxford provides advice on a broad range of financial and children law matters arising in the context of divorce and separation. The firm regularly acts for high net worth individuals, including foreign nationals, on the division of complex financial, property and business assets, as well as pensions and tax considerations. It also assists clients with drafting prenuptial agreements.
  5. LGFL Ltd (Leiper Gupta Family Lawyers)
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    LGFL Ltd (Leiper Gupta Family Lawyers)
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked
    LGFL is a boutique firm based in Reading that assists clients with a broad range of family law issues. The firm acts on financial remedy matters, representing clients in both contentious and collaborative proceedings. It offers additional expertise in complex Children Act matters and abduction cases.
  6. Mills & Reeve LLP
    3
    Mills & Reeve LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked

    The Oxford-based Mills & Reeve team has expertise advising on divorce and financial remedy proceedings, including matters involving business assets and company valuations. The firm is also adept at handling prenuptial agreements and proceedings involving children.

  7. RWK Goodman
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    RWK Goodman
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked
    RWK Goodman has well-regarded teams operating out of offices in Oxford and Swindon. The firm has substantial experience in divorce and financial remedy matters involving complex business assets. It also advises on children matters, including both international relocation cases and contact issues.
  8. Stowe Family Law LLP
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    Stowe Family Law LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3 | 2 Years Ranked

    Stowe Family Law, from its nine offices in the Thames Valley area, advises clients on high-value and complex financial remedies involving business assets, trusts, pensions and substantial property portfolios. The team can also assist with prenuptial agreements, child arrangements orders and matters concerning the relocation of children. The firm fields a team trained in collaborative law and alternative dispute resolution, as well as offering non-legal expertise such as in-house psychotherapy.

  9. Collins Solicitors
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 3
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Band 4

  1. Blanchards Law
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    Blanchards Law
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 4 | 1 Years Ranked

    Blanchards Law advises clients on a range of family law matters from offices in Henley and Marlow. Its team is vastly experienced in complex financial mandates as well as Children Act proceedings including relocation disputes. The firm can advise in cases involving difficult issues such as domestic abuse and is also able to provide mediation services.

  2. Lightfoots
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    Lightfoots
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 4 | 1 Years Ranked

    Lightfoots has a well-established team representing clients from its office in Thame. The department capably acts on the full range of family law mandates and is equally experienced in financial disputes and negotiations as it is in matters involving the Children Act.

  3. Brethertons LLP
    Family/Matrimonial
    2026 | Band 4