Bio
Lucy is a Family Senior Associate.
Lucy specialises in financial matters and child law.
With more than 17 years’ experience in family law, Lucy can support clients with the resolution of their divorce and related-financial issues, including pensions, businesses, and pre-acquired marital wealth. She also supports cohabiting couples who need support to resolve a dispute following their separation.
She works with clients from a variety of backgrounds based throughout the UK and abroad.
As an accredited family mediator, Lucy offers a bespoke mediation service to assist in children or financial disputes.
She also deals with hybrid mediation cases involving professionals such as solicitors.
Lucy is registered with the Family Mediation Association and the Family Mediation Council and can offer the Government Mediation Voucher scheme in relation to children matters.
Lucy has obtained the Law Society Advanced Accreditation in complex financial settlement and children cases.
She is a Member of Resolution, and committed to the constructive resolution of family disputes.
Examples of Lucy’s work include:
- Helping to mediate an agreed outcome for clients in relation to their complex business assets and pensions following separation and helping them to agree their child arrangements post-separation.
- Securing a shared care order in relation to the time spent by a father with his children in a case involving parental alienation by the mother.
- Obtaining a leave to remove order for child to be taken out of the jurisdiction to live abroad.
- Securing an advantageous financial settlement for a client in circumstances where her un-matched financial contributions were ‘ring-fenced’ by the court.
- Advising on complex financial issues involving pensions and significant pre-acquired marital wealth.