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Mills & Reeve LLP

Family/Matrimonial

UK Guide 2026 : East Anglia

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Mills & Reeve LLP

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Family/Matrimonial - East Anglia

Band 1

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.
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Strengths

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  • They understood my issue, and me, very well and advised me in ways that were very supportive. They had a good understanding of my challenges and were able to respond in kind.

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  • The team at Mills & Reeve deliver a great level of service and are very responsive to queries raised on every issue.

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  • They are a really class act and extremely good lawyers. The Mills & Reeve team give such clear advice and build really good professional relationships with their clients.

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  • Clients can be confident that their case will be given due care and attention.

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Notable Practitioners

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  • Caitlin Jenkins
    Caitlin Jenkins

    Caitlin Jenkins

    Caitlin Jenkins 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 is brilliant: she sees how cases and matters will play out.

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    • Caitlin Jenkins is an all-round superstar with excellent judgement and an unbelievable work ethic.

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  • Nick Stone
    Nick Stone

    Nick Stone

    Nick Stone frequently acts on high-value financial remedy cases involving significant corporate and property assets, including those concerning farming families.

    • Nick has bucket loads of experience and is extremely good with clients.

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  • Frances Bailey
    Frances Bailey

    Frances Bailey

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

    • She's a financial remedy specialist and really knows how to deal with complex issues very well. She is hugely knowledgeable about the law.

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    • Frances Bailey is as close to a genius as you get in family law. She is extremely calm and the harder a case gets the more she excels: she's a brilliant lawyer able to pick away at thorny issues.

      Family/Matrimonial respondentUK

    • Frances was amazing. She thought about my problems in depth and was able to provide thorough, thought-out, strategic suggestions and plans.

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  • Hannah Wilson
    Hannah Wilson

    Hannah Wilson

    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.

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