Family/Matrimonial

About

Provided by Trethowans LLP

Trethowans family team are best known for their no-nonsense, down to earth and client centric advice on divorce, separation and civil partnerships, finances, children, relocation, cohabitation, nuptial agreements and surrogacy.

These services are provided across all five offices, promoting alternative resolution options where appropriate. Senior members of the team are collaboratively and/or mediation trained. The entire team are active members of Resolution, several sitting on regional and national committees.

Following the Firm’s ethos of ‘Law. As it should be’, the team recently launched a podcast, ‘The Candid Divorce Lawyer’ which discusses current family topics without the legal jargon.

Referrals come from other professionals, including solicitors and barristers as well as existing clients.

In 2020, the team (particularly Emma Wilders-Pratt) represented the wife in H v W successfully arguing that a £2.1m pension fund should be shared on the basis of equality of income, ignoring pre-martial contributions. A decision that has come to provide very useful guidance on the treatment of pensions on divorce as well as global maintenance and costs orders.