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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.

Work highlights

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

    Successfully acting 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)

    Acting 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”.
  • Acting for the father in highly litigious private children law proceedings to defend the mother’s application for a “lives with” order in her favour. The case involved a Fact-Finding Hearing, which dealt with allegations of drug and alcohol abuse, parental alienation, coercive control, and an unprecedented number of covert recordings. The result was a transfer of residence in the father’s favour.

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

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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