About Olivia
Olivia is a Partner in the Family and Divorce team undertaking the full range of private family law work, including complex financial cases, pre and post-nuptial agreements and all aspects of private law children matters, both domestic and international.
Olivia specialises in surrogacy, fertility law, alternative routes to parenthood and parentage issues. Much of her work has an international element and involves HNW individuals and City professionals, with a specialism in jurisdiction and cross border disputes involving modern family structures.
Her practice includes the following:
- Complex financial disputes often involving business assets, third party resources, trusts and assets located outside of the jurisdiction;
- Drafting of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements as well as litigation arising from contested nuptial agreements on a divorce;
- Advising on and preparing cohabitation agreements;
- Advising unmarried parents in respect of their financial claims against one another (known as Schedule 1 claims);
- Consented and contested parental order applications in surrogacy matters, both domestic and international;
- Cases involving modern family structures, including donor conception, co-parenting, assisted reproduction and LGBTQ families;
- All aspects of private law children matters, including complex jurisdiction disputes, domestic and international relocation and parental alienation.
Olivia focuses on straightforward and practical advice for clients while maintaining a close eye on the long-term strategy and overall outcome of the case. She has good instincts and excellent judgment; her clients are at the very centre of her every move on a case.
Olivia sat on a sub-group of a JUSTICE Committee which investigated potential reforms to the family justice system in private law children matters. The final report Improving Access to Justice for Separating Families was published in 2022. This important work has informed and influenced the Ministry of Justice intentions for private law family reform (as reported in January 2024).
Olivia has spoken as a specialist panel member at seminars on alternative routes to parenthood and provided the family law case law update for 2021 on Lexis Nexis.
Insights from Olivia
What to expect at a Mediation Information and Assessment Meetings (MIAMs)
Court as a last resort!
What does a ‘good’ divorce look like – when are you dealing with the finances?
Surrogacy and Parental Orders for single parents – the ‘non-urgent’ road to change
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