Kirstie Law
Partner
Specialisms and expertise
Kirstie has been practising family law since 1995. She makes it a priority to establish at the outset the best means of resolving a family’s issues. As well as being a solicitor she is a mediator and collaborative lawyer. Her work covers all aspects of family law including:
- Divorce, judicial separation & dissolution of Civil Partnerships
- Issues in respect of children including parental responsibility, residence, contact and re-location (National & International)
- All financial aspects of relationship breakdown
- Prenuptial and Postnuptial agreements
- Advice and agreements for co-habiting couples
- Issues between former cohabitees
- Domestic Violence.
Achievements and other appointments
Kirstie is a member of Resolution and founded and still chairs the West Kent and East Sussex Collaborative Law Group. She is a Resolution trained mediator.
Kirstie is acknowledged as an expert in her area in leading independent guides to UK law firms, Chambers UK 2011 and Legal 500 2011 and Legal Experts directory 2011
She acted for the wife in the successful 2008 P -v- P Appeal enabling the wife to retain her shareholding in a substantial family company.
What her clients say
- “The collaborative process works. No court, a few letters, we sat down and talked it through together”.
- “A potentially painful and traumatic experience was turned into an amicable one by you – thank you”
- “Thank you for your practical and pragmatic advice not forgetting your humour all of which got me through this”.
Profile
Kirstie graduated with a 2:1 degree from the University of Manchester and went on to obtain a distinction in her Legal Practice Course at Guildford College of Law. She was admitted as a solicitor in 1997 and, before joining Thomson Snell and Passmore as a partner in 2011, worked for eleven years at another major regional law firm where she was also a partner.
Kirstie is married with two daughters and outside of work helps with a local brownies and set up an award winning walking bus!