Can anyone recommend a good family lawyer in the Horsham area please?

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Just that really. My sister is looking to divorce her husband and I am trying to find her an excellent divorce lawyer who is empathetic but robust and thorough. Any recommendations would be hugely appreciated as we just don't know where to start. Thank you all so much.

Before you get a “good lawyer” start with clicking on link MN has provided at top of page to Advice Now guides. They cost £20 or so to download , but a solicitor will cost you £200 plus and a “good” one more. Save some money at least by understanding yourself what you can do, vs what you have to have a solicitor for, or might need solicitor for. Remember every “dumb” (simple process based) question you ask this solicitor will cost you £3.5 per minute an£ that includes them charging you for every second they start even thinking about your questions, issues.
most processes in divorce are straightforward. In most cases what you’ll get from a financial settlement (either consent order or through a court ) will not change no matter how good your solicitor is . The court has to make “fair” settlement and that is based on 10 or so criteria from the marriage act. The Advice Now guides go into that and how it works. 50:50 is not the default that many people think. You most certainly should not now use a solicitor to petition or respond to a petition. A good solicitor should tell you to do it yourself. The government web site has been designed to do it yourself. It is easy, takes about 30 mins - in some ways too easy really.

The 30 mins “free” consultation will tell you nothing about your own circumstances. It will merely go through what you can find out on the government divorce internet pages. Which are also very good, clear and with links to various forms you’ll need to use for financial settlement etc .

Sorry, just seen you’re asking on behalf of sister, so for “you” read “her”. You sound a good solicitor to help- so start with getting these ADVICE Now guides yourself and helping her go through them.
Then you can understand what actual tasks you need the solicitor to do . And then find someone to do those tasks. The advice Now guides even have a list of solicitors that will work on individual tasks she needs.

you sound a good sister..not solicitor 🙄🤦‍♀️