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Welcome to Purcell Family Solicitors
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With an established team of qualified lawyers, solicitors and mediators, our Milton Keynes office is fully occupied with valuable and expert knowledge regarding all areas of UK family law. As leading family law lawyers, providing strategic and pragmatic advice, we felt now was the right time to update our website to reflect our full range of services and dedication to this ever-changing area of law.
Your Family Law Specialists
Launched in 2005, Purcell offers more than just our years within the family law sector, with a team of experienced and highly accredited lawyers each specialising in their own unique area. Collectively, we have worked with a diverse portfolio of clients involving extremely complex and high-value matrimonial cases.
From divorce and separation to cohabitation and surrogacy, we support our clients through any scenario relating to the breakdown of a relationship. We strive to deliver trusted and tailored solutions which will benefit our clients, always going the extra mile in providing first-class representation in Family Mediation, Court or Arbitration procedures if required
Purcell’s Managing Director, Pauline Purcell, commented:
“Our clients are a huge part of Purcell Solicitors, and we work tirelessly to ensure they have the correct information and legal representation to reach the best outcome for them. I’m incredibly proud of the services our team seamlessly offer, and rebranding has enabled us to not only illustrate who we are but the professional services we provide.”
Purcell’s Managing Director, Pauline Purcell
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Creating An Informative, Online Space
Behind our essential expertise and experience is a team ready to guide and support our clients. During a time when they are feeling uncertain about their current situation, we wanted to actively share our insight and some reassurance.
With this in mind, we have designed a fresh, approachable and efficient website which is easy for clients to navigate. We’ve also cultivated dedicated service pages which provide essential information on various topics including Legal Representation, Financial Settlements and International Divorce. Providing clients the time to process their options and form an idea of their next steps.
We offer a range of services and work with you to find the best outcome. View Our Services.
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Senior Family Law Partner & Director – SRA No. 258177
Pauline Purcell is the Managing Director and founder of Purcell Solicitors, a specialist family law firm based in Milton Keynes. She qualified as a solicitor and built her early career at Fennemores, a top-100 legal firm in central Milton Keynes, where she became a partner and head of the family department before establishing Purcell Solicitors in 2005.
She has specialised exclusively in family law for over 30 years. Her qualifications span several disciplines: she is a solicitor, a trained mediator, a collaborative lawyer, and a family arbitrator, and she was among the first collaborative lawyers in England. She holds a law degree from the University of Buckingham, where she also lectured on the part-time undergraduate law programme.
Chambers and Partners has ranked Pauline as a Band 1 practitioner for Family/Matrimonial in the Thames Valley for several years. The 2025 Chambers and Partners Guide describes her as “incredibly astute and excels at getting to the heart of the issue,” “robust and frighteningly clever,” and “a rock and massive support” to clients throughout their cases. She is also listed as a Leading Lawyer by Wiselaw.
Her particular expertise lies in high-value financial cases, including those involving business assets, pensions, and complex or international elements. She is a long-standing member of Resolution and is committed to reaching negotiated agreements wherever possible, though she regularly represents clients in court and family arbitration when proceedings become necessary.
Pauline is regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA number: 258177). She can be contacted at pauline@purcellsolicitors.co.uk.