Kathryn Hulmes Senior Consultant Family Lawyer

Kathryn is a Family Law specialist and deals with all aspects of Family Law, with a particular emphasis on divorce, its financial repercussions and disputes involving the arrangements for the children. 

Her areas of expertise include:

• Divorce and civil partnership dissolution
• Financial implications of relationship breakdown
• Pre and post nuptial/civil partnership agreements
• Cohabitation disputes
• Disputes involving children, including paternity issues
• Financial settlements for children
• Domestic violence and emergency injunction proceedings
• International child abduction, relocation within the UK, internationally and cross – border enforcement.

Whilst she has experience of working with individuals from many different backgrounds, when dealing with financial matters, Kathryn often represents high net worth/high profile individuals, where the matrimonial pot is substantial and made up of a variety of assets including: property, businesses, shares, bonus schemes, inherited assets, large pension funds and trusts, with assets sometimes located in various different jurisdictions.

She also has expertise of dealing with complex children disputes, including relocation cases within the United Kingdom and on a cross-border international level, particularly involving cases in Dubai and Australia and has acted for clients in all levels of court proceedings, including the Court of Appeal.

Clients are often referred to Kathryn by current and previous individuals whom she has acted for, or by other professionals wanting to ensure that their clients, family or friends will be taken good care of. She has acted for various professionals, including: accountants, consultants, police officers, Company Directors, shareholders and their family members. Kathryn seeks to adopt a thorough, forward thinking, pro-active, vigorous, yet sensible approach, so as to obtain the optimum outcome for each client, with as little delay as possible.  She also works with a team of other reliable professionals, so as to guarantee that clients are offered complete support.