Direct Access Barrister

Estelle Christine Lear

Direct Access Barrister

Estelle Christine Lear

I am a barrister with over 16 years of experience specialising in all aspects of family law, including divorce, financial claims, disputes regarding children and disputes over property.

I am a barrister with over 16 years of experience specialising in all aspects of family law, including divorce, financial claims, disputes regarding children and disputes over property.

Area of Law

Family

16 years experience in all aspects of family law

What sort of work do I do?

My practice includes:

Financial Provision: On divorce, including complex businesses, trusts, third party claims against matrimonial property, bankruptcy, nuptial agreements, cases with an international element and enforcement proceedings.

Property Disputes between cohabitees.

Financial Provision for children of unmarried parents.

Civil Partnerships.

Inheritance Act Claims.

Private Law (Children): Including where a child should live and time spent with the other parent, applications for leave to remove from the jurisdiction and other specific issue orders. Experience of complex and intractable disputes, alleged domestic violence and fact-find hearings, and allegations of child abuse within the private law context.

Family Law Act Cases: Including domestic violence injunctions and occupation of the home.

Child Abduction: Including Convention and non-Convention abduction cases and applications for permanent leave to remove from the jurisdiction.

Care Proceedings: Acting for Local Authorities, parents, family members and children in applications for care orders, supervision orders, special guardianship and adoption.

Who do I work for?

I help and advise individuals in all aspects of family related disputes.

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