About
Carrie is a senior associate in the firm’s Family Law and Divorce team, having joined the firm in 2017. She specialises in advising high net worth individuals, and has experience in all areas of family law, with a focus on complex financial settlements on divorce, especially those relating to businesses, farms, trusts and pensions. She has expertise in acting for clients who are getting divorced, but who lack capacity under the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and also works in pre and post nuptial agreements.
She works on cases relating to arrangements for children and has a particular interest in surrogacy matters, acting for intended parents and surrogates. Her approach is always to be constructive and solution focused.
Carrie is Treasurer of Bristol Young Resolution, and also sits on Resolution’s Practice Standards Panel. She was named as a key lawyer in Legal 500 2024. Carrie, being Welsh herself, heads up the work we do in Wales and often sees clients in our office space in Cardiff.
Experience
- Divorce settlements: Dealing with divorce settlements relating to complex business and pension assets, income structure, disclosure issues and where assets are pre-acquired or inherited by one party.
- Pre & post marital agreements: Preparing and advising clients on pre and post-marital agreements, including those to protect significant pre-acquired company assets and inherited family assets.
- Farming clients: Acting for farming clients, assisting and advising on the options to prevent the break-up of multi-generational farms through divorce, and asset protection planning to avoid this.
- Schedule 1 claims: Dealing with Schedule 1 claims, which are claims often by unmarried parents for financial provision for children, including housing, on the breakdown of their relationship.
- Corporate client: Advising a corporate client on the implications of a third party disclosure application on divorce.
- Public sector agency: Advising a public sector agency and drafting the information on the financial implications of divorce on their public facing website.
Credentials
- Admitted as a solicitor: England & Wales (2016)