Trisha is a family solicitor with over 15 years’ experience of advising on all aspects of family and relationship breakdown, with a focus on complex financial matters which often feature issues of non-disclosure or third-party interests, and cases with an international element (including Islamic divorce, validity of marriage ceremonies and foreign matrimonial settlements).
Trisha also frequently advises on domestic and international pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements for those who may be seeking to protect mid- to high-value assets that have been built up before marriage or inheritance.
In addition, Trisha has expertise in complex disputes involving children, and acts for clients in cases involving serious allegations of harm and abuse, parental alienation and drug and alcohol addiction and relocation.
Trisha’s clients include entrepreneurs, CEOs, business and land owners, housewives and often vulnerable parties from the UK and overseas.
Thank you for your calmness, counsel and skill in handling this matter, it’s been hugely appreciated.
Mr G
You have been the best thing that happened to me and my children.
Ms S
I realise over and over how very fortunate I was to be guided and supported by you through that terrifically difficult process.
Mr M
Expertise
- International divorce
- Divorce and civil partnership proceedings
- Sharia law
- International family law expat divorce specialist
- Financial proceedings on divorce/dissolution
- Cohabitation agreements
- Pre-nuptial agreements
- Post-nuptial agreements
- Domestic violence
- Complex financial cases
- Child arrangements
- Relocation with child
- Schedule 1 and TLATA
Experience
Division of Finances on Divorce
- Represented the wife of a wealthy businessman with assets in Africa, England and the BVI. The matter essentially concerned the quantification of the husband’s resources and involved non-disclosure of the highest sort. There were numerous complex inter-family dealings including gift and loan agreements and tracing of assets across multiple currencies and jurisdictions. Successfully secured a freezing order to prevent the husband from removing the value of assets in England and Wales, including a substantial property.
- Successfully secured substantial capital and maintenance awards for clients, including a school fees order.
- Litigated and represented a husband where assets were located in the UAE and UK and his wife was seeking division of non-matrimonial and business assets.
- Acted for wife enforcing financial order in case with assets in Canada and the US of approximately £80 million.
Validity of Marriage
- Litigated and represented the respondent in a validity of marriage matter where the applicant asserted that the parties were married abroad in the 1980s. There was no marriage certificate but evidence that the parties entered the UK on asylum in the 1980s claiming to be married.
Children
- Represented applicant mothers in their applications to permanently relocate abroad to the USA, Australia and France.
- Represented respondent fathers in successfully opposing applicant mothers’ applications to relocate to the UAE and Japan.
- Advised and acted for the father where the mother was implacably hostile to unsupported contact taking place between the father and the child. This case involved a psychiatric assessment of the mother and father, complex issues of emotional harm and psychological damage to the child.
Wealth Protection Agreements
- Drafted a pre-nuptial agreement for the son of a UHNW scientist and inventor. The son had received a gift of £50 million from his father, which he sought to protect. The wife challenged the pre-nuptial agreement during the parties’ subsequent divorce but was unsuccessful.
- Drafted a post-nuptial agreement for a well-known company director married to a media personality to protect wealth exceeding £100m. He wished to protect his assets to pass them to his children from a previous marriage upon his death.
- Advised a foreign national on a pre-nuptial agreement where she was due to marry an UHNW individual in the UK and negotiated terms for her future financial security.
- Drafted a cohabitation agreement for an elderly female widower looking to live with her new partner and to protect assets exceeding £5m.
Cohabitation Disputes
- Advised an investment banker and mother in a HNW Schedule 1 and TLATA matter against the father (also a banker) who suffers from mental health issues. The matter involved complex trust submissions as the father had fraudulently secured a declaration of trust claiming unequal ownership of assets
- Acted for the former partner of a high-profile footballer on their cohabitation and children dispute with properties in the USA, France and Germany.
Please note: The experience list above may include examples of work completed prior to joining Keystone Law.
Recognition
Recognised by The Legal 500 (2022-2023) as a Rising Star for Private Client: Family
“Fights firmly for her clients interests. She is a pragmatic practitioner who will always try to settle a case if at all possible.” The Legal 500 2023
“Committed and talented solicitor. She is supportive when needed, fearless when required and gets great results for her clients.” The Legal 500 2023
Winner of “Lawyer of the Year – Bronze – Senior/ Managing Associate” at the Citywealth Future Leaders Award 2023
Recognised by The Legal 500 2021 for Private Client: Family
“An independent thinker, committed to her clients, pragmatic, resolute and feisty.” The Legal 500 2021
Recognised by The Legal 500 (2018-2023) for Private Client: Family
Member of Resolution and currently sits on the London Region Committee
Career
Trisha qualified as a solicitor in 2007. Prior to joining Keystone Law, she worked at the following firms:
- Family Law Partners
- Wedlake Bell
- TWM solicitors