“I found out, out of the blue, that my husband was seeing someone at work.  At first he said he would only move out of the house if I agreed to sell it straightaway and then he moved in with his girlfriend and stopped paying the mortgage and bills.  I was left to look after the children and was terrified we would lose our home. 

"Howells told me that I did not have to sell the house until the children were grown up and they negotiated child support payments with my husband so I did not have to move.  Howells explained everything to me and they went out of their way to deal with my husband reasonably after he said he could not afford a solicitor.  Their friendly and efficient approach made the whole experience much more bearable.”

Case study 2:

“I moved into my boyfriend's house a year after he bought it.  We never discussed shares or went through any legal formalities, but it was a family home and we had three children before splitting up.  Howells advised me that I could claim a share in the property and negotiated a lump sum payment from my partner without me having to go to court. 

"They kept the children's arrangements separate from money matters and this approach stopped us fighting over things which were not really important.  Howells referred us to a family mediator so that we could sort out contact arrangements for the children ourselves."