OUR TEAM
I am passionate about helping clients navigate their family law issues in the most positive way possible.
I consider my strength to be in building positive relationships with clients based on mutual trust and understanding, allowing me to work with them to achieve their aims for the future. I am calm, approachable and warm, which helps establish a good relationship with clients, colleagues, and other agents. I am passionate about delivering a better divorce for clients and making sure that the process can be as smooth and stress free as possible, so that the whole family can move on to their respective next chapters. I understand how important family is, and will continue to be beyond separation.
I regularly advise on divorce and financial provision, cohabitation, child residence and contact, child abduction, child relocation, maintenance as well as measures for those in the early stages of their relationships such as pre-nuptial agreements or cohabitation agreements. I appear regularly in the Sheriff Court and regularly instruct Counsel in the Court of Session and can provide advice and representation when court is the best course of action.
I have significant experience in international and cross border cases both in relation to children’s care and relocation or child abduction, and in relation to divorce. I have built relationships with solicitors in other jurisdictions which help to smooth the process.
I have practised exclusively in the area of family law since 2014, prior to which I undertook a wide variety of litigation after qualifying in 2006. I am experienced in all areas of family law and I have achieved two accreditations from the Law Society of Scotland; in Family Law and in Family Mediation.
I am trained as a collaborative lawyer and I am a member of CALM, the Family Law Association and Consensus.
I volunteer as a solicitor for the Scottish Child Law Centre and I often contribute to articles for various publications such as Greens Family Law Bulletin, Scots Law Times, the Scottish Legal News and the Scotsman.
The Legal 500 ranks Linda as a “Recommended Lawyer” in Family.
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