Family Law in Partnership LTD

Number of partners: 9

Number of lawyers: 14 (excluding partners)

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish 

Key Contacts: 

David Allison

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Daniel Coombes

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Elizabeth Fletcher

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Helen Greenfield

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Elizabeth Hicks

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

James Pirrie

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Charlotte Symes

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Bradley Williams

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Mariko Wilson

Tel: +44 207 420 5000

Email: [email protected]

Firm Overview: 

Based in Central London, this award winning team of specialist family lawyers, arbitrators, mediators and family consultants offers excellence across all aspects of family law with a distinctive client-centred approach.

Founded in 1995, Family Law in Partnership is widely recognised as one of the country’s leading family law practices and is renowned for its outstanding client service. The firm’s lawyers have extensive experience of acting for national and international clients from all walks of life.

Main Areas of Practice: 

The firm offers expertise of the highest quality across all areas of family law. The firm’s lawyers regularly advise on cases involving financial complexity including those with an international dimension, hidden assets, family companies and complex trust structures. The firm is highly regarded for its experience in advising parents on issues concerning their children, particularly removal from the jurisdiction. The firm’s lawyers have considerable expertise in advising on pre- and post-nuptial agreements, for both national and international clients. The firm’s expertise in acting for cohabitants and same-sex couples on issues such as financial claims, children matters and relationship agreements is second to none.

The firm includes market leading mediators, collaborative lawyers and arbitrators and offers clients a range of process options including robust litigation, solicitor led negotiation, collaborative law, mediation and arbitration. Lawyers work carefully with their clients to select the process best suited to the clients’ needs. In particular, the firm’s expertise in out of court settlement options can provide clients, including those in the public eye, with privacy and discretion in dealing with the sensitive issues they face.

The firm has close relationships with a network of trusted advisers both at home and abroad to ensure it offers first class advice on all issues. The experience gained and contacts fostered as a result of the firm’s long standing membership of a wide range of national and international family law associations are used for the benefit of each and every client.

The firm’s comprehensive family practice offers clients a unique blend of specialist family law advice complemented by a range of family support services, including counselling and parenting classes. At the heart of everything that the firm does is a desire to use the depth and breadth of its expertise to provide tailored solutions which deliver the very best outcomes for clients.

Representative Matters: 

■ AB v FC: A case on financial provision for the wife of a professional football player

■ JL v SL: A case on the treatment of inherited wealth and post separation monies

■ S v S: The first judicial announcement on the effect of financial arbitration awards

■ Divall v Divall: A complex jurisdiction dispute

■ Soloveyev v Soloveyeva: A case on the recognition of overseas divorces

■ B v S: A case on the effect of a postnuptial agreement and a separate property regime

■ Golubovich v Golubovich: A case on the recognition of foreign divorces by the English courts

■ McFarlane v McFarlane: A leading case on the division of unquantified income.

■ YM v NM: This case provides the test for Maintenance Pending Suit applications made before the determination of a set aside application of a (clean break) consent order.