Zoe Rose

Zoe is experienced in all aspects of divorce and separation, financial remedy, disputes in relation to children, and protection from domestic abuse (including coercive control).

She acts for individuals who are married, in civil partnerships and cohabiting at all stages of their relationship, as well as advising broader family members in disputes regarding intergenerational wealth and complex arrangements for children.

Zoe advises on complex, often high-value cases involving trusts, business assets, international elements, complex share options, RSUs, LTIPs, farms and agricultural assets, complex pension arrangements, third-party funders, freezing injunctions and appeals. She has also advised on cases where individuals lack capacity to initiate or proceed with divorce and the associated financial matters.

Alongside litigation experience, Zoe is well-versed in all aspects of non-court dispute resolution, and frequently advises on matters in arbitrations, hybrid mediations, private dispute resolution appointments and early neutral evaluations.

Zoe was also one of the first in the country to be able to provide advice to a couple together on separation, and supports clients to resolve issues in a constructive, ,conciliatory manner without the need for court intervention.

Examples of Zoe’s work include:

• Advising a husband through a private settlement hearing where the wife had terminal cancer but was nevertheless seeking an excessive share of the husband’s valuable NHS pension alongside securing a sale of the family home to provide deposit funds to the husband to rehouse himself.
• Advising a couple on their divorce and financial settlement, securing the provision of a school fees fund for their younger daughter to manage her education costs all the way to tertiary education, addressing the inherited properties retained by the husband, and enabling a flexible approach to ensure their co-parenting relationship was maintained.
• Advising a mother urgently on her successful application to relocate with her child back to her home country prior to the birth of her second child.

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