Julia Shillingford

Family Finance

Private Law Children

Called 2002. Julia accepts instructions in all areas of private family law work, including matrimonial and civil partnership finance, cohabitee disputes, applications under Schedule 1 to the Children Act, and all aspects of child arrangements, including specific issues such as education.

In each case, Julia is focused on giving practical and realistic advice to parties and striving to achieve settlement where possible. Where matters cannot be resolved by negotiation and consent, Julia is a fearless and tenacious advocate.

Julia has extensive experience in acting for parties at each stage of proceedings from first appointment, through dispute resolution – including both private and court FDR, and up to final hearing or arbitration. She also represents parties in applications for maintenance and enforcement.

Julia regularly acts in high net worth and complex cases involving business assets, shareholdings and investments, multiple real properties, development property, overseas assets and family trusts, and in cases where income is comprised of bonuses or dividends, and where assets are asserted to be non-matrimonial, whether premarital, inherited or otherwise, and intervener cases.

Julia also acts in difficult ‘needs’ cases or where financial and/or litigation misconduct is alleged.

Julia acted at all tiers up to the Supreme Court in a case concerning variation of an undertaking in a matrimonial finance case, see Birch v Birch [2017] UKSC 53.

Julia is a native French speaker and has basic knowledge of both Russian and Italian.

Family Law Bar Association