Isobel Mundy

Isobel advises on financial settlements involving complex assets, international wealth, and trusts. She regularly negotiates favourable outcomes for high-net-worth clients facing business valuation disputes and disclosure challenges during separation.

• Acted for the wife of a CEO and main shareholder in a private company who was also daughter to a high-profile entrepreneur. The wife owned shares in the company and her father had provided sporadic yet substantial support for both parties throughout the marriage. There were issues of non-disclosure by the husband regarding the valuation of the business which were resolved to ensure that the wife was properly compensated for the transfer of her shares back to her husband.
• Successfully acted for a husband who was a discretionary beneficiary of a number of trusts negotiating a settlement which avoided the trusts being taken into account in the settlement.
• Acted for an entrepreneur, negotiating an outcome in which the client retained full ownership of his private company in which the spouse held shares.

Isobel advises on securing financial provision for children of unmarried parents, including maintenance, school fees, and housing. She acts in complex cases involving international assets and non-traditional family structures.

• Resolved a dispute whereby the husband insisted that the wife should return to work imminently, thus relieving him of an obligation to pay long-term maintenance (the youngest child was one year old). An order was made transferring the family home to the wife along with generous spousal maintenance, to be paid until the youngest child reached the end of secondary education. Successfully negotiated a settlement whereby the wife transferred her interest in the husband’s privately owned company back to the husband.
• Obtained a favourable order for a mother which was appealed by the father at same time as information previously undisclosed by him came to light enabling the mother to successfully cross-appeal. This resulted in sums being held to secure payment of school fees, with further sums held to secure child maintenance and a significant costs award for the mother.

Isobel advises on child arrangement orders and contests relocation cases. She has successfully opposed international removal applications and acted in variations involving inconsistent contact and overseas parenting arrangements.

• Successfully opposed a mother’s application for permission to remove a child from the jurisdiction (out of Europe).
• Acted in a successful application to vary a child arrangement order where the father had consistently failed to keep to arrangements for the children’s spending time with him overseas.
• Successfully represented a mother’s application for internal relocation with her very young child.

Isobel advises on obtaining urgent non-molestation and occupation orders, including ex parte applications. She supports clients facing domestic abuse, coercive control, and alienating behaviours, ensuring immediate and effective legal protection.

• Acted for the wife in an ex parte application for a non-molestation order resulting in a zonal order excluding the husband from a property occupied by her.
• Acted for the wife in responding to an order made on an ex parte basis excluding her from the family home and negotiating an agreement at court with the husband to allow her to return and spend time with their child.

Isobel advises on bespoke pre- and post-nuptial agreements, often involving multi-jurisdictional assets, trusts, and family wealth. She also acts in challenges to nuptial agreements following separation, protecting clients’ financial interests.

• Numerous pre-nuptial agreements including where assets were in more than one country and reciprocal agreements in other jurisdictions were required.
• Acted for the husband in a postnuptial agreement involving significant English and Italian-based wealth including negotiating a reciprocal agreement in Italy.
• Acted for the wife in negotiating an agreement to protect pre-owned assets including her business and property.
• Acted for the wife and daughter of a wealthy entrepreneur to protect wealth gifted to and likely to be inherited by her.
• Acted for the husband in negotiating an agreement to protect largely inherited wealth.

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family: Divorce & Financial Remedy 2026

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family: Children 2026

Recognised by The Legal 500 for Family 2023–2025

Trained mediator and a member of Resolution