Caroline Ford Partner - Family Law

Caroline qualified as a solicitor in February 2003. She has a wealth of knowledge gained from representing clients from all walks of life in complex, high net worth and straightforward matters. Caroline is committed to ensuring her clients achieve a fair and workable result.

Caroline listens to her clients and conducts her cases in a proactive and fair manner in a cost-effective way for her clients. She offers practical and realistic advice and if possible, strives to negotiate a settlement to avoid length and costly court proceedings.

Caroline offers a joint service for separating couples, having completed the SRA-approved Resolution Together training Caroline is qualified to undertake joint instructions from separating couples regarding their finances and/or arrangements for their children, (See One Lawyer, Two Clients ( Both Parties) article)

She is a trained collaborative lawyer and is a keen advocate of resolving family disputes using this process.

Caroline appreciates that the breakdown of a relationship is a very difficult period and emotions can run high, especially when there are children concerned and/or the parties are in dispute over their assets and finances. She deals with such matters with a high degree of sensitivity and understanding.

Caroline deals with the following types of cases:

• Divorce
• Division of matrimonial finances/financial remedy proceedings/drafting financial orders after settlement at mediation or otherwise.
• Separation agreements
• Pre & post nuptial agreements
• Cohabitation agreements
• Unmarried separation issues (including TOLATA applications).
• Children matters/proceedings (including enforcement, relocation & Schedule 1 applications)
• Domestic abuse & Injunctions

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
Acting for a husband who thought he was divorced in a different jurisdiction after responding to an advertisement to take a holiday and obtain a quickie divorce in the process.

Acting for a husband in financial remedy proceedings when the wife’s litigation misconduct in being uncooperative and evasive resulted in multiple costs order being made against her.

A successful application on a seeking leave to remove a child from the jurisdiction to relocate in the Cayman Islands.

MEMBERSHIP AND RECOGNITION
Resolution member

Collaborative lawyer and member of London Collaborative Pod

Resolution Mediation qualification

Resolution qualification – Resolution Together

Expertise

• Legal Separation Agreements
• Lawyers for Domestic Abuse
• Family Law
• Divorce Settlements
• Child Arrangement Order Solicitors