Bio
Owen is a Family Partner.
Owen has more than 30 years’ experience advising clients across the full range of family matters.
His practice includes providing advice and support to clients on divorce applications, division of matrimonial finances and in particular high net worth matters, cohabitee disputes, domestic violence injunctions, private law children matters, and high-net-worth pre and post-nuptial agreements as well as cohabitation agreements.
Owen began his career acting on Legal Aid cases, including complex children matters, and has since developed experience representing clients in a variety of challenging situations. His work includes Section 37 injunctions to freeze assets, as well as acting in both the Family Court and High Court on financial and children disputes, covering issues such as contact arrangements, residence, specific issues such as schooling and relocation cases.
Owen has a particular interest in drafting complex financial Consent Orders and pre-nuptial agreements.
Owen was a former Chair of The Thames Valley Family Lawyers’ Society when he was the solicitor liaison with the Family Court in Reading. He was also a former committee member of the Berks, Bucks & Oxon Resolution Committee, the Reading & Berkshire Solicitors’ Association and the former Treasurer of the Thames Valley Collaborative Law POD for the first four years from its inception.
Examples of Owen’s work include:
- Acting on a collaborative law divorce case in a 30-year marriage where the parties were in their mid 60s and the assets totalled circa £5 million including large NHS pensions.
- Drafting two pre-nuptial agreements, one of which involved total assets of circa £39 million, and the other assets of circa £21 million.
- Acting for the husband in a highly contentious divorce and financial remedy proceedings after an 18-year marriage with matrimonial assets totalling circa £2.8 million.