Family Law Specialist

Concepts

• finance and insurance
• specialist
• family
• law
• immediate financial position
• financial settlement
• financial guidance
• child maintenance
• lay language
• clarification discussions

Location

Description

This is to inform you that the Money and Pensions Service (MaPS) intends to run a further competition, and in advance of the procurement exercise, we are contacting you to determine whether this is something you have the capacity and interest in bidding for and for you to express an interest and invite you to a further early market engagement event. Expertise is required to provide MaPS with the latest high-level legal position who has experience in practicing across all 3 jurisdictions (England & Wales, Scotland and NI) in no more than a few sentences for roughly 50 specific points/questions linked to our guidance on separation and divorce, plus some additional hours for clarification discussions. The aim is to ensure we understand the key legal principles correctly as we link financial guidance to them, so responses would need to be concise and clear, using lay language. The 50 questions are split into eight key areas: 1.Legal basics / principles to end relationships. 2.Legal basics / principles to protect home rights and keeping up payments when deciding to separate. 3.Legal basics / principles to protect immediate financial position when deciding to separate. 4.Legal basics / principles when the separating couple have children. 5.Legal and financial considerations when proceeding with divorce or separation. 6.Legal basics / principles for dividing assets and liabilities when reaching a financial settlement when divorcing. 7.Legal basics / principles for dividing assets or liabilities when separating as an unmarried, cohabiting couple. 8.Legal and financial considerations after divorce, dissolution or separation Examples of the types of questions we are interested in are below: •To protect the immediate financial position when deciding to separate/divorce, what actions should be considered to protect joint bank accounts, savings, investments, insurance and other assets when married or civil partners? •What are the options for financing legal costs and fees while proceedings are under way and/or when financial settlement is reached? •What are the legal remedies for non-payment or arrears of child maintenance?

CPV Codes

• 66000000 - Financial and insurance services

Indicators

• Contract is suitable for SMEs.

Other Information

The anticipated value of this requirement is £50k. We request that you return a response by 16:00 on Friday 3 November detailing if your organisation can meet these requirements. Please return your response to: commerical@maps.org.uk If you are interested and submit your interest, we would also welcome you to attend our virtual briefing on a date TBC w/c 6 November where we will give a brief walk through of the requirement. The invitation to this will be sent separately and will be conducted via MS Teams. Request for information on Family Law Family Dispute Information request - 23-098C.docx