Rosemary Sharp

Practice Areas

Rosemary advises on a wide range of clients on all aspects of private family law. Her work predominantly focuses on divorce, financial claims arising on divorce, businesses and complex income arrangements, farming assets, armed forces personnel, landed estates and Trusts. Rosemary’s work also includes private children matters, contact & residence and financial provision for children following an unmarried relationship breakdown. She also regularly advises on wealth protection issues such as prenuptial and postnuptial agreements.

Rosemary’s approach and strategy is always tailored to each individual client and focuses on what they want to achieve. Where possible she always tries to find a pragmatic solution for clients. If a court application is necessary, her advice is robust and practical.

Career

Rosemary trained at a firm specialising in private client matters and upon qualification in 2010 joined their family team. She subsequently moved to join the family team at Lester Aldridge in 2017, and has led the team since May 2020.

Professional Memberships

Resolution

Work Highlights

Negotiated the terms of a prenuptial agreement which involved French assets. I acted for an English client whose fiancé was The parties were living in England then but were considering relocating to France. I liaised closely with French lawyers to ensure the prenuptial agreement would be appropriate in both jurisdictions.

Acted for a husband in divorce and financial remedy proceedings. The husband was focused on protecting his family business, and significant issues surrounded the value of the husband’s shares. We reached a settlement that did not involve the sale of the husband’s shares, and the lower value was attributed to his shares for negotiation.

Acted for a mother and successfully obtained a prohibited steps order preventing the children’s father from removing them from the jurisdiction. We agreed to a child arrangements order with limited contact to minimise the risk of abduction and creative safeguards to ensure the children would remain in England.

Acted for a father who was successful in opposing the mother’s international relocation application. Mother had applied to relocate internationally with their child. Advised the father throughout the contested proceedings and at the final hearing, after evidence, mother agreed to withdraw her application and new contact arrangements were agreed.