We are HRS Family Law Solicitors. Family law is the only law we do. Twenty-one offices, one specialism, one Legal Aid Agency family contract, and a Cardiff office on Malthouse Avenue a short drive from the Civil Justice Centre on Park Street. Resolution accredited throughout.
Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020 work from the uncontested no-fault filing through to contested petitions involving conduct, jurisdiction or service-by-publication. Resolution-trained from day one, so the first conversation is whether the case resolves at FDR or whether it genuinely needs a final hearing.
Child arrangement orders, prohibited steps orders, specific issue orders, parental responsibility, internal and international relocation. Section 7 reports, CAFCASS liaison, and fact-finding hearings when allegations are made. Children Law panel accreditation on both sides of the bench.
Full Form E disclosure with schedule of deficiencies, single joint expert valuations for property and pensions, pension sharing orders, lump sum and periodical payments. Most cases settle at the Financial Dispute Resolution appointment rather than going to a contested final hearing. We will tell you which yours is.
Cohabitation agreements, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, declarations under TOLATA, non-molestation and occupation orders. Protective injunctions can be heard ex-parte (without notice) the same day where there is credible risk. The 07960 line is staffed out of hours for exactly this.
Non-molestation orders and occupation orders under Part IV of the Family Law Act 1996 can be heard ex-parte (without notice to the respondent) the same day, including out of hours, where there is credible risk. The 07960 line below is staffed twenty-four hours for that. The first appointment is free, and Legal Aid is available under the domestic-abuse gateway where the means test is met.
Clive Rebbeck and Diana Hills founded HRS Family Law Solicitors Limited in December 2012 with one rule: family law is the only law we do. No conveyancing line, no employment line, no general litigation. Thirteen years on, every solicitor in the firm is family-law trained, family-law billed and family-law accredited. Twenty-one offices across England and Wales, one of them in Cardiff.
We hold one of the few remaining Legal Aid Agency family contracts in the country. We are Resolution accredited throughout, Law Society panel accredited in Family Law and Children Law, and Specialist Quality Mark certified. The Cardiff office is staffed for first appointments, file reviews and FDR preparation; final hearings sit at the Cardiff Civil Justice Centre on Park Street.
“Over ninety percent of our clients say they would recommend us to a family member or friend. We took on 9,869 clients last year. Family law is what we do.” HRS Family Law · client outcomes, 2024 to 2025
Financial-remedy disclosure starts with Form E. Most of the work is what is missing from it, not what is on it. We draft a schedule of deficiencies that turns "I do not know where the SIPP statement is" into the questions the court will actually ask, before the First Appointment, so the FDR can do its job.
The Financial Dispute Resolution appointment is the moment most cases settle. Without notice indications from the judge, position statements drafted to be heard rather than ignored, and a settlement room booked for the afternoon. We will tell you whether yours is an FDR case or a final-hearing case at the first appointment.
In disputed children matters the section 7 report is the document that frames the final hearing. Pre-drafting liaison with the CAFCASS officer, schools and GPs, then proper response to the recommendations. Children Law panel accredited solicitors on every disputed file.
Non-molestation and occupation orders under FLA 1996 Part IV can be heard the same day, without notice to the respondent, where there is credible risk. The 07960 line is staffed for that. The order, the return date and the police service of the order are handled together.
Cohabitation breakdown sits under TOLATA, not the Matrimonial Causes Act. Declarations of beneficial interest, occupation rights, sale and division of jointly-owned property. We handle TOLATA cases without trying to bend them into the matrimonial-remedy framework they do not fit.
We hold an active LAA family contract. The means test, the merits test and the domestic-abuse gateway are run at the first appointment. Eligible clients pay nothing for their solicitor; not-eligible clients get a fixed-fee quote at the same appointment. No mystery on cost.
The first appointment is free and runs around forty-five minutes. It is enough time for us to understand the case, run the Legal Aid means test, give you a fixed-fee quote where you are not eligible and tell you whether your case is an FDR case or a final-hearing case. We will not start the clock until you have decided whether to instruct us.
Regus House
Malthouse Avenue
Cardiff Gate Business Park
Cardiff CF23 8RU
Cardiff intake · 029 2116 7992
24-hour line · 07960 126 872
Email · hrscardiff@hrsfamilylawsolicitors.com
Park · on-site at Cardiff Gate Business Park; J30 of the M4 is two minutes away.
Court · Cardiff Civil Justice Centre, Park Street, CF10 1ET (about fifteen minutes by car).
The 07960 line is staffed twenty-four hours, every day, for protective-order applications. Out of office hours it is the only number you need.
Most family-law cases do not reach a final hearing. Financial settlements settle at the FDR appointment. Children-arrangement cases settle by consent order under the Children Act in the majority of files. We will tell you at the first appointment whether your case is a settle-at-FDR case or whether it genuinely needs to be heard, and what the indicative timeline looks like in either case.
Possibly, yes. We hold an active Legal Aid Agency family contract, which is rare for family work. Eligibility runs against the Means test (income and capital), the Merits test (prospects of success), and the domestic-abuse gateway (which removes the standard merits test for protective-order applications where there is evidence of abuse). We run all three at the first appointment, free, so you know on day one.
Same day, including out of hours, where there is credible risk. Non-molestation orders under FLA 1996 Part IV can be applied for ex-parte (without notice to the respondent). The 07960 line is staffed twenty-four hours for this. The order, the return date, the police service and the supporting witness statement are handled together by the same solicitor.
The first appointment is free regardless. From the first appointment we give a fixed-fee quote where the scope is clear (uncontested no-fault divorce, prenup drafting, cohabitation agreement, single non-molestation application). Where the case is uncertain (contested financial remedy with hidden assets, disputed children matter going to fact-finding), we work in stages with a fixed fee at each stage and a written estimate of the next.
Yes. The Cardiff office on Malthouse Avenue is for first appointments, file work, FDR preparation, video calls and consent-order signing. Final hearings sit at the Cardiff Civil Justice Centre on Park Street and we attend with you. The 029 2116 7992 number is the Cardiff intake; named-solicitor direct dials sit on the Meet the team page.