Legal

The Head Partnership

Legal aid: Yes
Mediation: Yes
Collaborative law: Yes
Disabled access: Yes

Areas covered: Thames Valley.

Head of Family team: Richard Rodway
Family team members: Maureen Fox, Dawn Routledge, Vanessa Cozens, Madeleine Lamb, Natalie Carmichael, Julia Drury and Kaley Hobbs
Resolution members: Richard Rodway, Maureen Fox, Dawn Routledge, Vanessa Cozens, Madeleine Lamb, Natalie Carmichael, Julia Drury and Kaley Hobbs
Specialist panel memberships: Law Society’s Family Panel & Law Society’s Children Panel
Other Departments: Company & Commercial, Commercial Property, Employment, Conveyancing & Residential Property, Wills, Trusts & Probate

About us

The Head Partnership has a 13 strong family team over two offices in Lower Earley, Reading and Henley on Thames, and has grown rapidly ever since Mo Fox, and her then team of two, launched the department in 1998.

The family team is the only one in Reading to provide a one-stop shop in relation to family law, assisting privately funded and Publicly funded clients in relation to divorce and separation; public and private children disputes; domestic violence protection; ancillary relief and financial matters; cohabitation; civil partnerships; mediation and collaborative law; and pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements.

They try to adopt a holistic approach to family problems, finding a practicable and workable solution to varied problems, which will allow each party to move on with their lives with minimum animosity. Especially where children are involved, the breakdown of the relationship does not mean the end of the family, and the relationship should be capable of continuing, albeit in a different way.

The firm also has expertise in company and commercial work, employment law, residential and commercial property work and private client work, dealing with wills and trusts, probate, estate planning and elderly client work.

The firm has attained Lexcel accreditation, the Law Society’s practice management standard, and a Franchise to deliver Publicly Funded services from the Legal Services Commission.