Frances is a highly experienced family lawyer with a wide range of knowledge across all fields of family law. She is accustomed to working on cases where there are few assets and financial division is guided by needs, but she also has in-depth experience of working with clients with many assets and high incomes, often with an international or business background. She recently obtained an order for a spouse to pay the client’s legal costs, thus enabling the client to fight for a share of business assets on a an equal basis, and Frances’ background enabled her to instruct extremely able counsel from a prestigious chambers, so that the best case could be presented.

Frances takes the same care with clients with few assets and needs that cannot be fully met from what is available, finding good junior counsel and seeking ways to compromise the proceedings to the client’s best advantage.

Frances also deals with contentious children matters, especially for male clients who find themselves accused of behaviours that can separate them from their children, Frances guiding and advising the
clients to navigate what many find to be a hostile landscape. At all times, Frances reacts with sympathy and encouragement behind accurate and experienced advice, recognising the realities and how best to deal with them.