Maria Henty

Maria has a growing family finance practice and has experience in dealing with cases involving pensions, foreign assets, companies, multiple properties, intervenors, trusts, enforcement, freezing injunctions, and pre-nuptial & post-nuptial agreements. Maria welcomes the use of ADR and has experience in representing clients at private FDRs and in final hearings conducted by way of arbitration. In the summer of 2019, Maria assisted in house at a boutique firm of family solicitors in London. Maria worked on cases concerning high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals. Maria acts in family finance cases from first appointment to final hearing. Maria has also acted in Schedule 1 Act claims.

Maria has represented parents at all stages of private children proceedings: her experience at trial in the criminal and civil courts means that she is well practised in cross-examination, including of experts. Recently Maria has been involved in cases involving: international relocation; internal relocation; leave to remove temporarily from the jurisdiction for a holiday; consent as to medical treatment; revocation of parental responsibility; special guardianship orders for family members; change of a child’s name; witchcraft; parental alienation; appointment of guardian; and sexual abuse of a child. She also has experience in respect of enforcement applications and appeals.

Called 2012. Maria is a founding donor and assisting barrister for the charity Not Beyond Redemption, assisting mothers in prison or recently released from prison with re-establishing and regenerating the fundamental relationship between mother and child.

Family Law Bar Association (FLBA), Committe Member for Hampshire Resolution