Fiona Apthorpe

23 Oct 2013

   

Specialisms

  • Big Money Assets
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets

Fiona Apthorpe

T: 01332 254124  |  fiona.apthorpe@geldards.com

Fiona is a Partner at Geldards Law Firm who have offices in Cardiff, Derby, Nottingham, London and Ilkeston. Based primarily in Derby and Nottingham Fiona heads Geldards’ Family Law Team.

Fiona joined Geldards as a Partner in 2014 following its acquisition of Robinsons Solicitors where she had been a Partner and Head of Family Law.

Known for her professional and pragmatic approach, Fiona specialises in more complex medium to high net worth financial cases (including those involving businesses, inherited assets, farms and family owned or controlled assets/trusts), pre-nuptial agreements and same sex marriage/civil partnership breakdowns.

Fiona is a Resolution Accredited Specialist Family Lawyer as well as a Resolution Accredited Mediator, a Practitioner Member of the Law Society’s Family Mediation Panel, a Resolution trained Collaborative Lawyer and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. She is also an experienced Deputy District Judge with a Private Family ticket enabling her to hear Private Law Family cases.

Active locally on various family law related committees, Fiona chairs the Derby and District Law Society Family Law Committee and also the Derby Collaborative Law Group.

Qualifications
Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Part-time Judge, Solicitor
 
Regions
East Midlands, Wales