Zoë Saunders

Practice Areas

Family & Divorce, Divorce & Financial Remedy, Children Private Law, ToLATA, Professional Negligence, Wills & Trusts, Mediation

Career

Zoë specialises in family finance work, representing clients in finance and divorce cases. Zoë regularly deals with high-net-worth clients involving company shareholdings, business valuations, family trusts, complex pensions and international assets. Zoë has a wealth of experience dealing with cohabitation disputes (involving ToLATA and Applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act) and private law children disputes (involving cross-border issues, intractable contact disputes and parental alienation).

Zoë is highly skilled advocate and regularly appears in court at all levels.

She has a particular expertise in financial remedy cases involving farms and farming businesses, multiple properties, trusts of land and complex pensions. Zoë has experience in cases involving confiscation orders and proceeds of crime act issues and international enforcement of maintenance orders.

Zoë also specialises in cases involving international issues both in financial remedy work where cross-border marriage issues arise on divorce or international assets are involved and in children cases including disputes regarding international relocation and is frequently instructed to deal with cases at high court level.

She also has a fast-growing professional negligence practice dealing with claims involving solicitors arising primarily from cohabitant disputes including ToLATA, trusts and estates, divorce, financial remedies and general matrimonial work.

Professional Memberships

Family Law Bar Association

Resolution

Professional Negligence Bar Association

Western Circuit

South Eastern Circuit

Professional Negligence Lawyers Association, Gray’s Inn (Bencher)

Society of Mediators

IFLA qualified arbitrator in financial matters

Publications

Dictionary of Private Children Law (2024)