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Family/Matrimonial - East Anglia

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What the Team is Known For

Mills & Reeve is a leading regional firm with strong teams in Norwich and Cambridge. The firm demonstrates a broad range of expertise in matrimonial finance matters, including contentious trusts, pensions and business-related issues, while also handling similar disputes relating to cohabiting couples. It has notable experience of dealing with farming assets and inherited wealth during divorce proceedings. The team has an outstanding ability across complicated litigation as well as a variety of ADR methods. It also assists clients with Children Act proceedings including those involving complex factors such as abuse allegations or mental health issues.

Strengths

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Mills & Reeve are the Rolls-Royce firm in Cambridge and the go-to firm for matrimonial finance in the region.

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They were always available and demonstrated a great deal of expertise and experience.

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They have an absolutely superb team in Norfolk and offer an absolutely fabulous service. They are responsive, provide sensible advice and are easy to work with.

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I always found them to be knowledgeable and reliable advocates and I had total confidence in their abilities to protect my interests, however complex the issues.

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They're great: sensible, solution-focused and you can rely on them not litigating for the sake of it.

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Notable Practitioners

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Caitlin Jenkins
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Caitlin Jenkins
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Caitlin Jenkins is head of the Cambridge family team. She is adept at handling financial remedy proceedings and elicits praise for her expertise in complex cases involving farming assets, trusts and landed estates. She also acts as an arbitrator and mediator.

Caitlin has fantastic judgement and brings a calm authority to cases.

Caitlin is very experienced and is a pleasure to have on a matter. She is able to work in her client's best interests whilst being approachable and forward-looking.

Caitlin is very approachable and is quick to grasp the details and offer vision and direction.

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Nick Stone
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Nick Stone
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Nick Stone leads the team in Norwich and is also the firm's national head of family law. He frequently acts on high-value financial remedy cases involving significant corporate and property assets, including those concerning farming families.

Nick is a standout name and is in a class of his own in East Anglia.

A no-nonsense practitioner whose judgement is extremely sound.

Nick is absolutely unflappable: he is Mr Cool but he also has the capacity to find settlements in really complicated family structures.

He is very experienced and pragmatic.

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Frances Bailey
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Frances Bailey
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Frances Bailey is based in Norwich and assists clients with financial remedy proceedings following divorce, often in complex cases involving owner-managed businesses.

Frances is an exceptionally good lawyer who has complete confidence dealing with any complex matter.

Frances is very practical in finding a properly considered resolution without inflating the issues in a case.

Frances was diligent and scrupulously fair in her counsel as she guided me through a very challenging legal process. I valued her advice and insight at every stage.

Frances is one of the most intelligent lawyers I know and is also very personable.

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Hannah Wilson
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Hannah Wilson
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Cambridge-based Hannah Wilson acts for clients in matrimonial financial disputes and private children law matters resulting from divorce. She is a trained collaborative lawyer and mediator.

Hannah Wilson is excellent.

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Caitlin Jenkins
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Caitlin Jenkins
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Nick Stone
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Nick Stone
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Frances Bailey
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Frances Bailey
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Hannah Wilson
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Hannah Wilson
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