Trevona Hettiarachchi

Practice Areas

Trevona advises on all aspects of family law, with extensive experience and proficiency dealing with complex children matters such as those that include multifaceted court proceedings, as well as settling arrangements for children and finances on the separation of parents.

Career

Trevona read law at Durham, trained at Stewarts and qualified in 2011. She became an Associate in 2016 and a Senior Associate in 2019.

Professional Memberships

Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association)

Association of Lawyers for Children

Personal

Trevona enjoys travelling with her young family.

Industry Sector Expertise

Trevona has developed a specialist practice in complex private children law matters, advising on all issues involving children upon parental separation, including contact arrangements, welfare-related disputes, Schedule 1 claims and highly contentious Children Act proceedings, particularly those involving protracted multi-layered proceedings.

Trevona is regularly instructed in relation to matters that have international elements, including international and domestic leave to remove cases, cross-jurisdictional matters and child abduction.

Trevona’s approach to children matters is to provide pragmatic, sensitive and strategic advice, enabling her clients to resolve matters in a child-centric way.

Trevona is also highly skilled and experienced in advising on financial settlements on divorce, including advising on pre-marital wealth, post marital accrual, complex valuation issues and cases involving intricate business and income structures.

Experience

Trevona advised in the landmark internal relocation case Re C [2015] EWCA Civ 1305, heard in the Court of Appeal.

Trevona frequently advises in high-conflict children disputes involving parental alienation, coercive control, domestic abuse, mental health issues and addiction.

She also has extensive experience advising on and drafting pre- and post-nuptial agreements.