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Family - FInance, Family - Children, Property and Private Client

Frances is a family law specialist. She has a particular interest in cases dealing with the financial division on divorce and is regularly instructed in high asset cases.

Frances regularly advises in cases involving:

• Freezing Injunctions
• Setting Aside Dispositions
• Complex Pension Issues
• Inherited Wealth and Arguments Surrounding Non-Matrimonial Assets
• Pre-Nuptial Agreements
• Business Valuations
• Enforcement of Orders
• Variation of Periodical Payments Orders

Frances also deals with cases involving property disputes between unmarried former cohabitants under TLATA 1996, financial provision for children under Schedule One Children Act 1989 and child support appeals.

She has a wealth of experience of dealing with private law children cases in relation to Child Arrangements Orders.

Frances also deals with applications for financial relief for unmarried parents under Schedule One Children Act (see practice profile Property and Private Client).

Frances regularly advises in cases involving:

• Emergency and without notice orders
• Allegations of domestic violence
• Allegations of sexual abuse
• Enforcement of Child Arrangements Orders
• International relocation
• Internal relocation within the UK
• Special Guardianship Orders
• Urgent hearings seeking summary return of children following wrongful retention or removal.Frances regularly deals with property disputes between unmarried former cohabitants under TLATA 1996. This includes cases in which there are issues as to:
  • The beneficial ownership of a property that is held in the sole name of one party
  • Disputes in relation to the parties’ share of the equity in a jointly owned property
  • Occupation rent and equitable accounting
  • Orders for sale

  Frances also regularly acts in cases in which third parties to divorce proceedings assert a beneficial interest in property owned by one of the divorcing parties. She also acts in cases involving claims for financial provision by unmarried parents under Schedule One Children Act 1989.

Frances was called to the Bar in 2005 by the Inner Temple

FLBA

Frances read Law with Australian Law and Politics at the University of Nottingham, spending a year studying at the University of Melbourne on a scholarship.