Matrimonial Finance
Jonathon accepts instructions from both private and publicly funded clients. His areas of expertise include:
• Ancillary relief/financial order applications including big asset cases and those where the assets are complicated such those involving pensions (particularly armed forces schemes), business interests, farming partnerships and property subject to trusts;
• Schedule 1 Children Act 1983 applications;
• Non-molestation, occupation and transfer of tenancy order applications under the Family Law Act 1996;
• Child Support Agency Tribunals.
Recent cases include advising and representing: both armed forces personnel and their former spouses in applications where the pension is the largest single asset, parties who jointly ran a business during their marriage; and a party in an application under s37 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 to stop a party from disposing of the lump sum received from a pension on retirement.
Called to The Bar 2001