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Your Family Law Solicitors
Sensitive, professional legal advice
We will help you to fully understand your current legal position at an early stage – no matter what your situation is – so you can take the action you need to put your mind at rest.
As members of Resolution we can help you with:
Divorce
Children Arrangements
Separation
Resolving Finances
Civil Partnerships
Testimonials
What Our Clients Say
“When I needed help with a family law matter, someone whose advice I trust recommended Richard Perrins. I was very impressed by Richard and I am incredibly pleased I chose to instruct him. He provided honest and clear advice throughout. I can’t speak highly enough of him. I would recommend Richard to anyone and will remain extremely grateful to him for helping me to conclude my case successfully.”
“When I needed help with a family law matter, someone whose advice I trust recommended Richard Perrins. I was very impressed by Richard and I am incredibly pleased I chose to instruct him. He provided honest and clear advice throughout. I can’t speak highly enough of him. I would recommend Richard to anyone and will remain extremely grateful to him for helping me to conclude my case successfully.”
“When I needed help with a family law matter, someone whose advice I trust recommended Richard Perrins. I was very impressed by Richard and I am incredibly pleased I chose to instruct him. He provided honest and clear advice throughout. I can’t speak highly enough of him. I would recommend Richard to anyone and will remain extremely grateful to him for helping me to conclude my case successfully.”
Why Coles Miller Family Law Solicitors?
Family law is complex, it affects the most important things in your life: your children, your home and your financial future.
Sound legal expertise is essential but knowledge of the law alone is not enough. You need highly experienced solicitors who are used to handling complicated and challenging family situations.
Coles Miller’s incisive and tenacious divorce solicitors provide practical and pragmatic solutions that help you to:
- safeguard your future
- ensure a good outcome for your children
- protect what is yours.


Providing simple, straightforward solutions to complex family issues enables you to move on and rebuild your life.
Our expert team can help you with specialised family law matters including:
- high-net-worth divorce cases, offshore trusts
- identifying hidden assets
- freezing assets
- securing maintenance orders.
We are a Dorset-based law firm with six offices but handle divorces, civil partnership dissolution and other family law matters from all over the country.
How Coles Miller’s Resolution Accreditations Can Help You
Coles Miller is a member of Resolution, an organisation of family lawyers and other professionals dedicated to making life easier for separating couples by defusing confrontation.
This makes divorce or dissolution of civil partnerships quicker, cheaper and less stressful. It eases the pain for all concerned, especially those affected most – the children.
Aside from the firm’s membership of Resolution, Coles Miller also has the following extra accreditations:

Resolution Mediator
Partner and Head of the Family Department Richard Perrins is specially trained to meditate to help resolve conflicts. This speeds up divorce cases – reducing costs and stress. Richard’s specialisms also include LGBT law, surrogacy and fertility law (international and domestic) and known donor disputes.

Resolution Specialist
Senior Associate Family Lawyer Lindsey Arnold is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in both Private Law Children and Complex Financial Remedy matters. Not many family lawyers have this combination of accreditations.