Mark Carlton

Mark Carlton became Senior Partner in April 2011. He also heads up the Beverley office having moved from Wilkin Chapman's Louth office in 2005 to establish family work in the area.

Mark is one of the UK’s first legal experts to qualify as a family law arbitrator under the newly launched family law arbitration scheme.  After rigorous training and assessment he is now a qualified family law arbitrator and a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.  Presently, there are only 36 qualified family law arbitrators in the UK and Mark is East Yorkshire’s first trained arbitrator in family law. 

Mark has been specialising in family law for over 25 years and has Advanced Membership of the Law Society's Family Law Accreditation Scheme. He has experience in divorce, separation, cohabitation, childcare and has particular expertise in complex financial matters and private children proceedings. He is also a resolution trained collaborative lawyer, a trained mediator and is also a member of Resolution.