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14th January, 2021 by Justine Flack
Head of Family Law at Howes Percival, Justine Flack gives her top five tips to help ensure your divorce is handled in the most efficient and cost effective way possible.
I recently wrote to a client at the end of the case I was advising on. I was passing her to a colleague to do some commercial work. I advised her to be very focused in her communication, making sure that it was relevant to the matter in hand because of the cost implications.
My client is quite astute and in her email back to me told me that I had made her laugh because, 'in your very professional way you are telling me to stop waffling.' And she was right, I was! Lovely though she is, she did have a tendency to talk about all sorts of things rather than the matter in hand.
The same day I amended a client's financial disclosure form for the umpteenth time, adding information which could have been provided weeks before and amending things which had been in the first draft. In her email, the client had commented upon the costs of the case.
Both of these clients made me think about issues which affect cost and that there are ways in which clients can help to manage the costs in their case. Here are my top five tips:
The key is to work with your solicitor so that they can try and get the best outcome for you. They in turn should be organised, telling you what they need, why it is required and the time when it is needed. We appreciate that clients wish matters to be dealt with cost effectively so do consider things which you can do to allow your case to be managed as efficiently as possible.
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