About Act Family Law
Ian Downing, Partner.
Solicitor and Collaborative practitioner.
Ian Downing has specialised in family law since 1984. He was a Family Law Partner with Bond Pearce, Plymouth, before setting up Act as a specialist family law practice in 1997.
Ian is a member and past Devon region Chairman of Resolution, the national organisation of family solicitors. He is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Pensions and Cohabitation issues.
Ian is a Resolution trained collaborative law practitioner.
He is regularly included in Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession annual list of leading practitioners in the South West region. Chambers describe Ian as "a first rate family law practitioner".
As well as advising his clients, Ian also lectures to other family lawyers on a range of family law matters, and has also co-authored various specialist family law publications.
Rebecca Wilson, Specialist Family Law Solicitor.
Specialist Family Law Solicitor.
Rebecca Wilson is a specialist family law solicitor and a member of the Law Society's Family Law Accreditation Scheme.
On graduating in law from the University of Sheffield in 1996, Rebecca worked at Stephens Scown, and then at The Stokes Partnership where she regularly advised Armed Forces personnel at RNAS Yeovilton and developed a particular interest and expertise in family issues relating to the Armed Forces, especially pensions. In 2006, Rebecca joined Ashfords, specialising in the financial aspects of relationship breakdown.
In her spare time, she likes to keep fit by going to Zumba and swimming, and enjoys music, the theatre and spending time with family and friends.
About Act
Created in 1997 as Plymouth's first law firm to specialise purely in family law matters, Act Family Law provides its expertise to clients throughout the South West and beyond.
The breakdown of a relationship is often traumatic. Anyone going through this process, where so much may be changing, needs more than just good legal advice. Act provides legal and collaborative skills in a friendly and professional way, helping clients to resolve family and divorce matters effectively and efficiently.
We are experienced in cases involving businesses, professional and farming matters, complex finances and pensions, and members of the Armed Forces at all levels.
We have worked to obtain a wide range of specialist family law qualifications, and we continue to update and refine our skills to enable us to maintain the high standards we have set for ourselves.
Act Family Law is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority.
SRA number 261737
VAT registered 692987756