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Nick is Head of the Family Department at Payne Hicks Beach.

Nick is a specialist family lawyer who focuses on all areas of family law, including issues arising from divorce, cohabitation and the financial consequences of a relationship breakdown. He is a skilled litigator with experience of cases at all levels and has been involved in a number of high profile and reported cases at both first instance and the Court of Appeal. Nick is one of the very few family lawyers to have worked on a case which was heard in the Supreme Court (successfully, in 2023).

Aside from his financial practice, Nick regularly advises on contentious children disputes involving contact, residence and relocation (including international relocation). He has also dealt with abductions, and on matters involving same-sex parents.

Nick regularly advises upon and drafts pre and post-nuptial agreements

He works for a variety of high net worth and ultra-high net worth clients on both contentious and non-contentious matters, including those with a complex international angle. He has experience of advising clients upon the breakdown of civil partnerships and Inheritance Act claims.

Nick has significant experience working on cases which involve Sharia Law, Islamic marriage and divorce.

Nick was part of the team that launched the Payne hicks Beach Mental Health & Family Breakdown initiative to support and protect clients during vulnerable periods of their lives, providing ground breaking peer-reviewed guides

Nick has been quoted on family law matters in the national media, including The Times, Daily Mail.

Career

Joined Payne Hicks Beach in 2008, qualified in 2010, promoted to Senior Associate in June 2017 and to Partner in December 2020. Nick was promoted to Head of the Family Department in May 2024.

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Family/Matrimonial Finance: Ultra High Net Worth - London (Firms)
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Nick Manners is regularly instructed by high net worth clients on complex matrimonial finance matters. He has recently taken over as the head of family at the firm.

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