Simkins' Family team ranks highly in Spear's 2025 Family Lawyers Index
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Overview
Every family situation is unique, as are the legal solutions to protect you throughout.
We advise on all aspects of family law, with emphasis on asset protection for wealthy individuals, often with international interests.
Our clients are from a variety of sectors and backgrounds, including public figures and those in media, entertainment and music. Working closely with other specialist practice areas at Simkins, we ensure your business and personal reputations are managed concurrently with your family law needs.
Our understanding of the psychological and emotional impact of relationship breakdown sets us apart and we are highly respected by expert mental health practitioners who entrust us with their clients.
Expertise
Our areas of expertise include the following:
- Divorce and separation
- Pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements
- Personal and financial injunctions
- Dissolution of civil partnerships
- Cohabitation agreements and claims
- Children arrangements, including relocation
- Financial settlements on divorce and separation
- Enforcement of financial orders
- International financial and children issues
KEY CONTACT
KEY CONTACTS
Our highly respected, specialist family lawyers ensure unparalleled service delivered with integrity.
Deborah Jeff
Partner
Deborah Jeff
Partner
Quality and the feeling you have the best people on your team.
Huge effort, attention to detail and great concern for their clients.
Simkins are knowledgeable, commercial, always responsive and willing to go above and beyond to help.
...empathetic, non-judgemental and focused on achieving the best possible outcome
Deborah Jeff 'is a class act and knows her onions'.
Deborah Jeff is excellent – she is clear in her advice (even when what she is saying is difficult for her client to hear) and always aims for the best, most realistic outcome. She’s also a tough negotiator who you’d want on your side.
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