Senior Family Associate Ffion Greenfield features in eprivateclient discussing the role mental health experts play in family law proceedings.
Ffion says, “Quite often the issues that lead a family into Family law proceedings stem from the undiagnosed and untreated mental health conditions of one or both parties.
We have a responsibility to protect and support our clients and any children they may have, by offering that holistic support so that they are not just benefiting from legal advice but also, if needed, from sufficient support enabling them to emerge from an often very difficult process, in the best place possible to begin the next stage of their lives.
In terms of the type of family law matters that tend to involve the input of psychologists/psychiatrists; this is far more common in children law matters than financial matters upon divorce.”
Read the full article in eprivateclient online here (£).