My experience
I am a partner in the family team specialising in:
- divorce and dissolution of civil partnership;
- financial consequences following a relationship breakdown;
- cohabitation and living together agreements; and
- private children matters, including financial provision for children under Schedule 1.
I advise on all aspects of family law to include divorce, financial settlements arising after a separation (including the interim financial position), enforcement and variation claims, and complex private children matters, which often raise serious issues such as parental alienation, substance misuse and controlling and coercive behaviour.
I also have a specific interest in farming and agricultural cases and expertise as to how these are treated upon a divorce or dissolution. My agricultural sector knowledge has been noted by the leading independent directory, The Legal 500, which also names me as a key lawyer. I am also a member of the Agricultural Law Association and the CLA.
My clients are wide ranging and include sports personalities, business owners, members of the medical profession, accountants, farmers and landowners, and homemakers.
In addition, I am chair of Hampshire Resolution, a national organisation committed to resolving family matters through constructive and non-confrontational means, and have assisted clients involved in mediation and arbitration. I am a trained collaborative lawyer, familiar with and open to all dispute resolution options, enabling me to help clients choose the most appropriate options to move matters forward. I was formerly chairperson of Hampshire Young Resolution committee (YRes) ensuring that I have been at the forefront of developments in family law throughout my career.
Examples of my experience include:
- advising in respect of financial settlements involving complex trust and company structures, significant pension provision (including Armed Forces pension provision), personal injury awards and foreign property;
- assisting to advise and draft multi-million pound pre-nuptial agreements;
- acting for an intervening adult son in a complex farming case between his parents;
- acting for parents to resolve living and educational arrangements for their children to include obtaining a court order that her client’s son live with him having previously lived with his mother;
- acting for fathers in contested court proceedings to obtain permission to move to different countries with their children; and
- resolving cohabitation disputes and drafting deeds of separation following the same.
I was shortlisted for the Family Lawyer of the Year (Partner) in the prestigious Citywealth Future Leaders Awards in 2024, and as a recommended family lawyer for Hampshire by the independent Doyle’s Guide in 2025.
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