legal advice

Legal issues involving relationships and family can be tricky, especially when children or finances are involved. Legal advice helps you understand your rights and provides guidance on next steps, so you feel confident and protected. 

You can ask about separation and divorce, civil partnerships, arrangements for children and financial matters following a relationship breakdown.

Advice can also cover cohabitation, prenuptial agreements, mediation and issues involving domestic abuse.

Whether you're buying, selling or living in a property , you might find yourself with legal questions or disputes. You may need advice about your own home, a property you're renting, or your responsibilities as a landlord.

Our legal advice service can help with questions about landlord and tenant relationships, tenancy agreements, notices, possession, leasehold property and disputes with neighbours. You can also ask about certain tax issues linked to property, such as capital gains tax.

From starting a new job to leaving one, there are lots of situations where you might need advice about your rights at work. You may have questions about your contract, pay, working hours or holiday entitlement, or need help with something that's changed at work.

Our legal advice service can also help with workplace disputes, disciplinary or grievance procedures, redundancy, dismissal, discrimination and settlement agreements.

If you're unsure about your employment rights or what your employer can ask you to do, you can speak to one of our legal advisers about your situation.

Tax questions can come up when you're dealing with big life events, such as selling a property, receiving an inheritance or dealing with someone's estate.

Through Law Express, you can get advice on areas including capital gains tax and inheritance tax.

Not sure how a particular situation might affect you? Our advisers can help you understand the tax implications and what you might need to do.

Planning for the future can give you peace of mind, while dealing with someone's affairs after they die can feel difficult and overwhelming, especially if you're not sure what you need to do.

Our legal advice service can answer questions about powers of attorney, including when you might need one, how they work and what happens if someone can no longer manage their own affairs. You can also get advice about making or updating a will, probate, administering an estate and inheritance tax.

If someone has died without leaving a will, Law Express can also advise you on what to do next.

If you've bought something that's faulty, paid for work that wasn't completed properly, or have a dispute with a business, our legal advice service can help you work out what to do next.

You can ask about your rights when buying goods or services, including issues with builders and used cars.

Our advisers can also explain how the small claims court works and what you need to do if you want to make a claim.

If you've been injured in an accident or as a result of someone else's actions, you might be considering making a claim but aren't sure whether you have a case or what to do next.

Our legal advice service can help you understand the process, including questions about making a claim and who might be responsible. Your adviser can also explain when you might need specialist legal representation.

Motoring law covers more than just driving offences. You might have a dispute after buying a used car, want to challenge a parking ticket, or have questions about a motoring offence.

Our legal advice service can help you understand your rights and what to do next, whether you're dealing with a dispute, a parking ticket or a motoring offence.