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Stephanie’s practice encompasses all areas of family law and wealth protection, including divorce and separation, the negotiation of pre- and post-nuptial agreements, high value and multi-jurisdictional financial disputes upon a marital or relationship breakdown, and complex children matters. Stephanie has particular experience in cases involving the enforcement of financial remedy orders where one party fails to comply, including those involving bankruptcy and non-disclosure of assets.

Stephanie advises on high profile family matters for high net worth individuals, their families and partners. She has extensive experience of litigation at all levels, including in highly contested court proceedings at High Court level and in arbitration. However, she is also committed to resolving cases in a non-confrontational manner where appropriate, and negotiating resolutions privately when it best serves her clients and their families.

The majority of Stephanie’s work is international. She has keen interest in cross-border US/UK cases and working with lawyers across the US, and she has recently spoken at a seminar hosted by the American Bar Association. Stephanie is also bilingual in Greek and proficient in Spanish.

Stephanie also has experience of complex children cases, including those involving allegations of parental alienation, substance abuse, domestic abuse, as well as cases dealing with both domestic and international relocation.

Stephanie’s clients value her calm and empathetic approach, paired with her decisiveness and strategic thinking to find an emotionally intelligent route through separation and divorce.

Recognitions

Doyle's Guide 2026

Family Law

Rising Star

Financial Remedies Awards 2025

Family Law

Finalist - Young Solicitor of the Year

Reported Cases

  • Collardeau v Fuchs: Contempt of Court [2025] EWFC 413

    Successfully acted for a former wife in relation to her contempt of court application in High Court enforcement proceedings. The judge found the former husband to be guilty of contempt of court for selling a property in the US in breach of the English court's preservation order.

  • Alvina Collardeau v Michael Fuchs [2025] EWFC 307

    Successfully acted for a former wife in relation to an unprecedented application for further enforcement and variation in High Court enforcement proceedings. In a landmark judgment, the judge ordered the former husband to pay a capitalised lump sum to the former wife of £11,039,684 for replacement housing. This was as a result of the husband's failure to comply with his undertaking to pay the mortgage on the former matrimonial home, where the wife and the parties' children were living, which resulted in the property being foreclosed.

  • Alvina Collardeau v Michael Fuchs & Anor [2025] EWFC 36

    Successfully acted for a former wife in High Court enforcement proceedings. In this highly significant judgment, Mr Justice Poole set aside a lease that was granted by the client’s former husband to a third party in order to defeat the financial remedy order made in her favour on divorce in 2023. The judge described the lease as a "sham" that was intended to frustrate and impede the enforcement of the financial remedy order. 

  • WX v HX (Treatment of matrimonial and non-matrimonial property) [2021] EWHC 241 (Fam)

    Successfully acted for the children as intervenors in their parents’ financial remedy proceedings on divorce in their capacity as beneficiaries of a US$50m trust, which they sought to protect from being treated as a 'matrimonial' asset and therefore subject to sharing.

  • Goddard-Watts v Goddard Watts [2019] EWHC 3367 (Fam)

    Successfully acted for Mrs Goddard-Watts in what is believed to be an unprecedented application to set aside a financial order on divorce for the second time within the same proceedings on the basis of fraudulent non-disclosure by the husband. Mr Justice Holman, the judge determining the application in the wife’s favour, described the scenario as “vanishingly rare and probably unique”.

Testimonials

"Stephanie has been quite outstanding. She has been totally dedicated to the case and to understanding the very complex factual matrix. She is a remarkable associate with all the markers of the very brightest future. Her bedside manner cannot be faulted and her attention to detail is remarkable. She really is a star player." (Leading family law King's Counsel)

"Stephanie is more than a rising star – she is already there. She is so dedicated day in day out." (Client)

"Stephanie is a standout junior lawyer who punches way above her seniority level and has knowledge, judgment and client skills beyond her years. Stephanie is super smart and has total command of the huge volume of detail in the case. She is also pragmatic and exhibits real world judgment without losing sight of her client’s aims. All in all, I think she is extremely impressive and a junior lawyer to watch." (Top ranked family law barrister)

"Stephanie is a stellar associate and, in my view, represents the positive future for our profession. She is bright, calm and a very good lawyer." (Top ranked family law barrister)

Memberships & affiliations

Before joining Farrer & Co in 2018, Stephanie read History of Art and Spanish at the University of St Andrews, and spent part of her degree working in Madrid for a year.  

Stephanie is a member of Resolution, an organisation which promotes a constructive approach to resolving family law matters.

Stephanie is also committed to pro bono work, volunteering at the Mary Ward Legal Advice Centre to provide free legal advice to those in the community who may otherwise be unable to afford it.

Publications

Diplomatic relations meet Family relations – The Diplomat, April 2025.

Division of Property upon Divorce: A Comparative Approach between France, Mexico, and the United Kingdom – American Bar Association, Family Law Section, January 2023.

Covert recordings in family proceedings in England & Wales: the hidden dangers - Private Client Global Elite “The Month” publication, December 2023 edition.

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