Trevona Hettiarachchi
UK Guide 2025
Associates to watch : Family/Children Law
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About
Provided by Trevona Hettiarachchi
Practice Areas
Trevona advises on all aspects of family law, with extensive experience and proficiency dealing with complex children matters such as those that include multifaceted court proceedings, as well as settling arrangements for children and finances on the separation of parents.
Career
Trevona read law at Durham, trained at Stewarts and qualified in 2011. She became an Associate in 2016 and a Senior Associate in 2019.
Professional Memberships
Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association)
Association of Lawyers for Children
Personal
Trevona enjoys travelling with her young family.
Industry Sector Expertise
Trevona has developed a specialist practice in complex private children law matters, advising on all issues involving children upon parental separation, including contact arrangements, welfare-related disputes, Schedule 1 claims and highly contentious Children Act proceedings, particularly those involving protracted multi-layered proceedings.
Trevona is regularly instructed in relation to matters that have international elements, including international and domestic leave to remove cases, cross-jurisdictional matters and child abduction.
Trevona’s approach to children matters is to provide pragmatic, sensitive and strategic advice, enabling her clients to resolve matters in a child-centric way.
Trevona is also highly skilled and experienced in advising on financial settlements on divorce, including advising on pre-marital wealth, post marital accrual, complex valuation issues and cases involving intricate business and income structures.
Experience
Trevona advised in the landmark internal relocation case Re C [2015] EWCA Civ 1305, heard in the Court of Appeal.
Trevona frequently advises in high-conflict children disputes involving parental alienation, coercive control, domestic abuse, mental health issues and addiction.
She also has extensive experience advising on and drafting pre- and post-nuptial agreements.
Chambers Review
UK
Trevona Hettiarachchi is a senior associate who advises clients on private children matters, often with a cross-border nature. Her work also includes cases pertaining to complex issues such as parental alienation, welfare concerns and mental health issues.
Strengths
Provided by Chambers
"Trevona is wonderful to work with, highly attentive to clients, strategic and has a depth of knowledge in children law."
"Trevona is truly thorough, incredibly assertive and clients adore her. They feel they have someone who is properly supportive of them all the time."
"Trevona puts the client's needs at the centre of all she does."
"Trevona is wonderful to work with, highly attentive to clients, strategic and has a depth of knowledge in children law."
"Trevona is truly thorough, incredibly assertive and clients adore her. They feel they have someone who is properly supportive of them all the time."
"Trevona puts the client's needs at the centre of all she does."