Family: Kent, Surrey, Sussex

Sean Hilton

Managing associate assisting clients on a broad spectrum of family matters ranging from complex high value financial proceedings following divorce to disputes in relation to children.

Christopher Maulkin

Senior Associate, Solicitor & Collaborative Lawyer

Joanna Potbury

Joanna is a Senior Associate in the Family and Relationships team, based in Brighton.

Rachel Donald

Rachel specialises in divorce and related financial matters and children cases. She also has particular expertise dealing with high value financial cases involving company assets, trust assets and farming businesses. Rachel regularly assists clients with wealth planning by advising couples entering into pre-nuptial, post-nuptial and cohabitation agreements. She has advised international clients regarding the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement where assets were held in multiple jurisdictions, and where there are complex trust structures that require protection. Rachel has represented domestic and international professionals, entrepreneurs, business owners and their spouses.  Alongside helping clients resolve complex financial issues arising from divorce, Rachel also helps parents to resolve arrangements for children and with other related issues including applications for permission to move out of the country with their children. She has considerable expertise in dealing with complex children cases involving allegations of physical, emotional and sexual abuse and also parental alienation, often when the children in the case require their own representation by way of a guardian.

Helen Fisher

Helen is an experienced family solicitor. She advises on a full range of family matters including division of financial assets on relationship breakdown, disputes arising relating to children, prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements.

Gemma Hope

Director, Solicitor and Collaborative Lawyer

Gemma Irving

Gemma is a partner at Jones Nickolds and has extensive experience in all aspects of family law, with a particular emphasis on financial provision on divorce and arrangements for children. Gemma has worked on a number of cases with an international element. Gemma is a member of Resolution.  

Caroline Keeley

Partner, Mediator and Head of Family Law

Emma Willing

Emma is a partner in the family team with over 15 years of experience. She offers a depth and breadth of expertise in all aspects of family law and has developed particular capabilities in the resolution of complex and high value financial issues on divorce, private children law matters, cohabitation disputes and the drafting of marital and cohabitation agreements. Her extensive international experience sees her draw regularly on her network of international contacts across her caseload. She works for clients from a wide range of backgrounds including entrepreneurs, family business owners, city professionals, celebrities and the independently wealthy. Emma also has extensive expertise in advising in respect to modern family building whether through surrogacy, assisted reproduction, donor conception, co-parenting and adoption (both domestic and international). She has worked on numerous complex surrogacy cases involving overseas jurisdictions and for clients with international connections. As a qualified mediator, she can also assist clients in seeking to resolve issues outside the context of court proceedings. Emma frequently contributes to the legal press and is a member of Resolution.

William Rollin

Partner

Judith Ball

Partner and head of family department dealing in all aspects of family law, but principally ancillary relief and private Children Act cases; also collaborative law practitioner.

Lisa Burton-Durham

Head of Brighton team, Chartered Legal Executive & Collaborative Lawyer

Alex Davies

Alex heads up the family team at Cripps. He has more than 20 years’ experience in advising on all aspects of family law with a client base comprising predominantly City professionals, entrepreneurs, family businesses, agriculture and estates clients and those with substantial inherited wealth. In the last 12 months Alex has continued to attract a variety of substantial instructions, including nuptial agreements for multi-millionaires, divorce matters with foreign elements and complex and sensitive disputes concerning children.

Kate Elliott

Head of Horsham team, Solicitor & Mediator

Veronica Gilmour

Partner in the family law team with a broad range of experience which includes advising on private children disputes, pensions on divorce and pre and post marital agreements. She has particular expertise in high-value, complex financial cases in both the UK and internationally. Accredited by Resolution as a specialist family lawyer, she has been at the forefront of the development of non-adversarial alternatives in family law matters for a number of years. She is a qualified collaborative lawyer with a thriving mediation practice and is a longstanding member of the Surrey Resolution Committee.

Nicola Harries

Partner and head of family. Nicola deals predominantly with medium and high net worth ancillary relief cases, as well as advising in relation to pre – and post-nuptial agreements, separation agreements, cohabitation issues and children matters, including child abduction. Many of her cases involve complex or overseas assets. Nicola has given professional comment on BBC Breakfast and BBC Radio London and has written numerous articles on family related issues for a variety of professional and other publications. She is also a trained collaborative lawyer.

Vanda James

Vanda is a partner in the family team. She specialises in complex financial cases or those with an unusual element.

Mei-Ling McNab

Partner and Head of Family

Robert Williams

Founding Director, Solicitor, Collaborative Lawyer & Arbitrator

Shona Alexander

Partner

Karen Wilsher

Partner