Helen Marriott

19 Dec 2013

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Helen Marriott

Tel: 0151 600 3050 | helen.marriott@brabners.com
Brabners LLP
Horton House
Exchange Flags
Liverpool
Merseyside L2 3YL

Helen is a specialist family practitioner with considerable experience in advising on divorce and financial settlements on divorce (with a particular emphasis on cases involving shareholdings and business interests; family trusts and pensions); the financial ramifications of civil partnership or cohabitation relationship breakdowns; wealth protection advice including prenups often where assets are based out of the country, postnups, civil partnership and relationship agreements. Helen also advises in relation to disputes over residence and contact with children as well as securing financial provision for children.

Helen has advised in many divorce cases involving business owners where questions of valuation, liquidity and minority discount issues arise. Her aim is to achieve a balanced and practical solution to such cases taking into account the fact that the business is often the source of a continuing income stream as well as being a capital asset. She has extensive experience in providing wealth protection advice including the preparation of relationship agreements and prenups. The aim in such arrangement is to protect and safeguard for example business assets, inherited assets and to ensure family wealth can pass to future generations.

Helen is a member of Resolution and is a trained collaborative lawyer. Helen is also a member of the Liverpool County Court Financial Remedies Committee.

Chambers Guide to the Legal Profession 2014 says: Helen Marriott has a reputation for being a strong lawyer, who peers say “you can trust to deal with matters sensibly.” Her practice is predominantly focused on substantial and complex financial proceedings.

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Solicitor

Geographic Region

Channel Islands, East Midlands, East of England, Isle of Man, London, North East, North West, Northern Ireland, Scotland, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber

Richard Hoare

18 Nov 2013

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Richard Hoare

Tel: 0044 1482 601 277 | richard.hoare@andrewjackson.co.uk
Andrew Jackson
Marina Court
Castle Street
Hull
East Yorkshire HU1 1TJ

I have been a family lawyer for over 20 years and am head of the family team at Andrew Jackson. I specialise in advising upon financial claims arising from divorce and relationship breakdown, generally in cases with high value and a degree of complexity. My clients are from all walks of life, but typically are business owner/managers, company directors, professionals, farmers or their spouses. An increasing number of my clients are based abroad. I am a member of Resolution, and also a qualified and practicing mediator and collaborative lawyer, committed to dispute resolution in the context of separating couples.

My experience of mediation and the collaborative process places me in an ideal position to identify which form of dispute resolution is best suited to my own clients and their individual circumstances. It also gives me insight into how best to tailor the particular process I am operating within to the needs of the participants. I recognise that, for some couples, a negotiated settlement is not always possible and that they require someone to adjudicate upon the issues between them. Arbitration undoubtedly provides one of the most effective ways of achieving that objective for couples in this position. With my many years of experience of the court process and my recognised expertise in this area of the law I believe I am ideally suited to arbitrate in cases of this nature.

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

East Midlands, East of England, London, North East, North West, South East, South West, Wales, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber

Fiona Apthorpe

23 Oct 2013

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Fiona Apthorpe

Tel: 01332 254124 | fiona.apthorpe@geldards.com
Geralds LLP,
One Pride Place,
Pride Park,
Derby,
Derbyshire. DE24 8QR

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

Geographic Region

East Midlands, Wales

Norman Hartnell

21 Jun 2013

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Norman Hartnell

Tel: 01392 457169 | Norman.Hartnell@thefamilylawco.com
Hartnell Chanot & Partners
Oriel House
Southernhay Gardens
Exeter
Devon EX1 1NP

Having qualified as a solicitor in 1979 and as a Family Mediator in 1989 I started my own specialist Family Law practice in 1991, which company of which I am MD now employs some 75 staff specialising in family work. Having run my own business for 21 years, I am well acquainted with the issues in cases involving business interests within the divorce process.

I have a case load of a substantial number of high net worth and complex child related cases and I employ the additional conflict management skills learned as part of mediation and collaborative practice in all areas of work. I was secretary of the Peninsula Family Justice Council from its inception, and former secretary to Resolution in the South West. I am willing to travel to conduct Arbitration cases

Qualifications

Collaborative Lawyer, Mediator, Solicitor

Geographic Region

London, South East, South West

Nikki Saxton

20 Jun 2013

Expertise
  • • Financial provision after a foreign divorce (Part III MFPA 1984)
  • Big Money Assets
  • Child Maintenance
  • Children Financial Disputes
  • Civil Partnership
  • Cohabitation Claims
  • Family or Small Business
  • Farming Cases
  • Finances and Foreign Divorce
  • Foreign Pensions Schemes
  • Inheritance Act Claims
  • Middle Range Assets
  • Modest Assets
  • Offshore Assets
  • Offshore Trusts
  • Trusts
  • UK Pensions

Nikki Saxton

Tel: 01132 455866 | nikkisaxton@aol.com
St Paul’s Chambers
23 Park Square South
Leeds
W Yorkshire LS1 2ND

All of my work involves the resolution of financial disputes arising either upon breakdown of marriage or cohabitation. Although my practice now centres on more complex high value disputes I have a wide experience of more modest disputes.

I act for both men and women in equal measure and am a member of the Yorkshire based arbitration group; Family Financial Arbitration.

Qualifications

Barrister

Geographic Region

East Midlands, East of England, London, North East, North West, West Midlands, Yorkshire and The Humber