Family Law Essentials
Where legal knowledge becomes practical skill
- Real case simulations — custody disputes, financial remedy hearings, protection orders
- Workshops structured for people without a legal background — no jargon walls
- Study from anywhere — designed for global participants across time zones
What the workshops cover
Each workshop targets a specific area of family law — not a broad survey, but focused skill-building around real procedural challenges. You pick what fits your situation or career direction.
Divorce Procedure
Step-by-step through grounds, petitions, and court timelines. You draft documents and respond to sample filings — the same way a practitioner would.
Custody Arrangements
Parenting plans, residence disputes, international relocation cases. Exercises use realistic family scenarios, not abstract hypotheticals.
Financial Settlements
Asset division, maintenance calculations, pension sharing. You work through actual figures and learn to spot what gets overlooked in negotiations.
Protection Orders
Domestic abuse frameworks, emergency applications, enforcement. Covers both the legal mechanics and the practical considerations practitioners face.
A question worth asking
Can someone without a law degree actually use this?
Most people who join these workshops are not lawyers. They are paralegals, social workers, mediators, HR professionals, and people navigating their own family situations who want to understand what is actually happening in the process.
The workshops assume no prior legal training. Legal terms get explained when they appear. The focus stays on what to do, not on memorising doctrine.
After the last session — what changes
Completing a workshop does not hand you a certificate and leave you there. Here is what participants describe actually being different in their work and daily life.
Reading court documents without confusion
Participants consistently report that they can now open a court order or a consent application and understand what it means — without calling someone to explain it.
Asking better questions in professional settings
Knowing the right terminology and the right sequence of events lets you have more productive conversations with solicitors, judges, and clients.
Handling unfamiliar situations with less anxiety
When you have already worked through a custody simulation or a financial remedy exercise, an actual case feels less like unknown territory.
What the commitment looks like
Time and cost — an honest picture
Each workshop module runs for four weeks. You get access to recorded sessions, written materials, and a set of graded assignments. Live group sessions happen once a week — recordings are available if you miss one.
- Single module or multi-module bundle — you choose the scope
- Pricing in EUR, accessible from any country
- No subscription — you pay per workshop, nothing recurring
- Assignments reviewed by practitioners, not automated systems
Single Workshop
One focused area, four weeks, full assignment set. Good for filling a specific gap in your knowledge or testing whether this format works for you.
Most flexibleFull Programme
All four core workshops in sequence. Covers the full arc from initial proceedings through to enforcement — the choice for those making a career shift.
Best valueThe shape of four weeks inside a workshop
Each module has a rhythm. It is not a lecture series — it moves between input, practice, and feedback in a way that keeps the material from feeling abstract. Here is roughly what that looks like week by week.
"The third week was the hardest — the financial remedy exercise pushed me to apply everything at once. But that pressure was exactly what made it stick."
Siobhán Ferriter — workshop participant
Orientation and context
The legal framework behind the topic — why the rules exist, how courts think, what the key documents are.
Guided exercises
You work through a structured case scenario with prompts. Mistakes are part of the process — feedback is specific.
Independent application
A new scenario, less scaffolding. You apply what you have learned without step-by-step guidance for the first time.
Review and consolidation
Group session, practitioner feedback on common errors, and a short reflection exercise to close the module.