What can I do for you?
I’m a specialist in the family team. My work includes helping and advising clients, such as professional people, business owners, company directors and farmers on all aspects of family law, but particularly work relating to complicated financial issues and children. I also advise and undertake work on pre-nuptial agreements, all aspects of cohabitation and non-molestation and occupation orders.
Supporting my clients’ aims and objectives
The main aim is to assist my clients through the traumatic events in the breakdown of their marriages or relationships in an easy, cost effective and financially well adjusted way as possible. All cases and clients differ and need handling in different ways. Some clients will need a higher level of advice, assistance and face to face contact than others. My objective is to ensure that financially my clients leave with a good, sound and workable settlement that meets all their current and future needs and those of their dependents. My aim is to make that transgression as smooth and painless as possible.
What do others say?
We are very proud of our family team at Mills & Reeve and were delighted when this was recognised at the Legal Business Awards, where we won Private Client Team of the Year 2009. We pride ourselves on giving excellent clear advice tailored to the individual needs of our clients. In addition, Chambers UK describes us as “becoming a truly national player for family matters” while “clients appreciate the team’s practical, problem-solving approach and suggest that this is one way in which Mills & Reeve differentiates itself from its competitors”.
The most important comments come from the clients who have reported that they have found me to be efficient, easy to talk to, readily available, prompt in my dealings with the client and opponents, a detailed understanding of the subject matter and sympathetic, but when required extremely tough. A client once described me as “a rottweiler in a Laura Ashley dress”.
What else should you know?
I joined Mills & Reeve in 1973 and undertook my training with the firm.
I am an associate member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association)
The team has a website – www.divorce.co.uk which is the UK's premier free resource for people who are going through a divorce or separation..