Family Law

Katherine has over 20 years’ experience as a specialist family law solicitor. She specialises in the financial disputes that can follow the breakdown of any relationship. Katherine has practical knowledge and experience of working with different business structures and inter-company loans and understands the impact that these can have on financial negotiations or settlement. She is also experienced in cases with complex international or corporate structures, pre-nuptial agreements, expatriate divorces as well as those that require an in-depth analysis of complex income structures and pensions. Katherine also handles almost all aspects of private law children matters including relocation of children, applications for contact with children, fact-finding hearings and surrogacy. She often acts for same-sex parents.

Rachel is a Lecturer in Law at the University of Exeter where she teaches Family Law and Land Law. She is also the Director for International Student Affairs for the Law School.

Prior to her appointment at Exeter, Rachel taught at the University of Warwick where she completed her doctorate in 2018. Rachel's thesis explored the origins of child protection laws in England and the basis for initial public law intervention within the family. Rachel continues to publish in this area exploring issues such as the history of criminal child neglect, the inception of foster care and the disproportionate penalisation of poor parents throughout the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries.

Rachel is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and holds a first class LLB from the University of Warwick. She is also a Queen Mother Scholar for the Honourable Society of Middle Temple Inn and a Diversity Access Scholar for the Law Society of England and Wale