About Family Solicitors And Commercial Solicitors
Two branches of UK common law, family law and commercial law handle different aspects of social life. The two legal branches cover different matters and reflect two different attitudes towards law enforcement, as they cater to different types of clients, whose priorities differ significantly. The Code of Practice applied by family solicitors London, as Resolution members, is designed to reflect this more personal approach that clients expect from family solicitors.
Commercial law mediates between our endeavours to accumulate wealth and our legal concept of social equity. Family law mediates between our private life commitments, and our duties and rights emerging from these private choices. Legal advice/ representation for people and companies who do business is offered by commercial solicitors, while legal advice/ representation for people in situations derived from family life (including legally recognized cohabitation and civil partnership) is offered by family solicitors.
Commercial law includes aspects of public law, insofar as “juristic persons” are concerned. The concept of a “juristic person” applies to companies and corporations that have legal identities even though they are not people. Corporate law is the most intricate part of commercial law in its public aspect. Contracts and torts make up the private law part of commercial law. Family law is entirely private law.
Expertize related to contracts and property issues including intellectual property and licensing is offered by commercial solicitors to individuals or business organizations. Legal expertise regarding development, sales, mergers, acquisitions partnership advice and joint ventures interests companies and corporations. Debt recovery and employment law also belong to this area.
Family solicitors offer pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements to their clients. In the case of other legally recognized private relationships besides marriage, such as cohabitation and civil partnership, these are registered by family solicitors. The rights of the involved clients can be protected after that. Civil injunctions and protection orders are handled by family solicitors in the name of the abused family members. The divorce settlements of clients who wish to separate are handled by family law experts. From legitimacy to adoption or child support, all legal matters related to children are handled by family law experts, and so is inheritance.
Mediation, followed by litigation only if mediation fails, is offered by both commercial and family solicitors. Commercial contracts stipulate mediation when disputes are handled. Even so, you must bear in mind that commercial law only operates with property, whereas family law operates with persons. Matters like child custody or child-related financial settlements may require legal advice and representation long after a divorce was pronounced. In such cases, family solicitors offer expertise in collaborative law. This is a sub domain of family law where non-confrontational law implementation is sought.