Specialisms & expertise
- Divorce, judicial separation and dissolution of civil partnerships
- Issues in respect of the arrangements for children, including parental responsibility, with whom a child should live and how often they should spend time with the other parent, relocation (national and international) and as a mediator qualified to see children, establishing the children’s wishes and feeling when appropriate
- All financial aspects of a relationship breakdown
- Collaborative law
- Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements
- Advice and agreements for cohabiting couples
- Issues between former cohabitees
- Domestic violence including applications for non-molestation and occupation orders.
Examples of work
Kirstie acted for the wife in the successful 2008 P -v- P appeal
Kirstie also acted for the mother who was successful in her application to relocate to Australia
Achievements & other appointments
Kirstie is chair of the West Kent and East Sussex Collaborative Law POD.
Kirstie has been ranked for over 10 years and is Band 2 in the UK Chambers Guide 2024. Chambers UK praises her as “pragmatic and sensible”. Kirstie is also ranked as a leading partner in The Legal 500 and a recommended lawyer in the Spear’s Family Law Index 2022. Kirstie is also listed as a CityWealth leader.
Kirstie is a member of Resolution and an accredited mediator, qualified to directly consult with children.
Education
Kirstie obtained a 2:1 Honours Degree in Law from Manchester University and a Distinction in the Legal Practice Course at the College of Law in Guildford. Kirstie was admitted as a solicitor in 1997.