Laura Heaton
UK Bar Guide 2024
Band 2 : Family: Matrimonial Finance
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Band 2
About
Provided by Laura Heaton
Practice Areas
Matrimonial finance, Schedule 1 Children Act 1989, cohabitation disputes under Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 and pre and post nuptial agreements. Also works as a mediator, collaborative counsel and sits as a private FDR judge and neutral evaluator in all of these fields. Reported cases include: MA v SK [2015] EWHC 887 (Fam); SK v TK [2013] EWHC 834 (Fam); M v M and Others [2014] 1 FLR 439.
Career
Educated at Northgate High School, Ipswich and Clare College, Cambridge (MA). Called to the Bar in 1998. Middle Temple. Collaborative counsel and mediator. Recorder (appointed 2019) sitting in public and private law children work and financial relief work including complex money cases.
Professional Memberships
Family Law Bar Association. Resolution.
Publications
Co-author of: 'Cohabitation and Trusts of Land' pub. Thomson Sweet and Maxwell.
Personal
Born 1 May 1975. Leisure pursuits include yoga, singing and watching sport.