Emergency orders

Our leading team of family lawyers are experts in obtaining emergency injunctions to protect our clients' best interests. We specialise in both domestic violence injunctions and property injunctions.

We’ll start by offering you a free half-hour meeting to talk through your situation. We’ll take our time to make sure you are aware of all the available options. Although there may be a need to move quickly, to protect you or your children, you will not be rushed into making decisions.

There are various difference emergency orders that we can help with:

The domestic violence injunction process

A domestic violence injunction can be obtained as part of divorce proceedings or separately. Our lawyers are sensitive to the difficulties that surround domestic violence and have experience of complex cases.

There are two types of domestic violence injunction:

  • Non-molestation Orders
  • Occupation Order

Non-molestation Orders

A Non-molestation Order can be made to protect either an adult or child, or both. It can protect a person from harassment, pestering, intimidation and from the threat of violence and can also prohibit the threatening or violent person from instructing someone else to harass, pester, intimidate or threaten violence. It can also protect a person from actual violent behaviour, as well as the threat of it, and against the associated person instructing another person to be violent towards an adult or child.

Occupation Orders

An Occupation Order is an injunction in relation to property and can determine who should live in a property in the short-term after violence or harassment. It can exclude a person who owns or has an interest in the property from either part or the whole of the property and can also enable a person who has been wrongly excluded from their property to return to it.

The property injunction process

If you are getting divorced and become aware of, or are concerned of, the risk that your spouse is trying to get rid of valuable property or money so that you cannot make a claim against them, we can make an emergency application to the Court for an order to stop them. This is called a Freezing Order.

Our Family Lawyers have expertise in property injunctions and have represented clients in cases involving substantial assets.

You can ask the Court to make an emergency order preventing your opponent transferring, getting rid of or passing property to someone else and for them to reveal whether they have disposed of any property or money.

Sharon Giles
Associate Solicitor
Bristol
0117 930 9568
07879 404211
Fiona Kellow
Partner
Swindon
01793 412655
07799 265808
Matthew Kellow
Head of Family - Swindon
Swindon
01793 412656
07795 178597
Anna Patterson
Associate Solicitor
Swindon
01793 412646
07876 251293
Gwyn Randolph
Partner
Bath
01225 340140
 

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