Family Law & Lattes

In today’s episode Melanie Bataillard-Samuel is joined by a Family Law & Lattes alumni, Graeme Fraser, Partner and Head of Family at BBS Law in London. Graeme has considerable experience in advising on financial settlements involving complex assets and substantial wealth, and on cohabitation, for which he holds the Resolution specialist accreditation. Graeme is a regular media commentator incl...

In this episode Melanie is joined by a Family Law & Lattes alumni, Graeme Fraser, Partner and Head of Family at BBS Law in London. During the pandemic many family law specialists found themselves with time to look at their lives, careers, and ultimately consider the changing landscape of family law. Over the last few years Graeme has written several thought provoking articles looking at the ch...

Today Melanie Bataillard-Samuel is joined by Angharad Lynn, a partner in the private client team in the London offices of VWV. Angharad is experienced at drafting Wills, administering Estates and also advises on trusts, inheritance tax planning and Lasting Powers of Attorney. She specialises in international work and cross-border estates (in particular France!) and speaks French, Italian and Welsh...

Today Melanie is joined by Ian McArdle, a family law barrister at Atlantic Chambers in Liverpool and Magdalen Chambers in Exeter. Prior to being called to the Bar, Ian was a solicitor practising in all aspects of criminal law and children law. Admitted to the Roll in 2010 and being a member of the Law Society Children Panel since 2013, Ian practised in Liverpool before moving to North Devon in 201...

I n today's episode Melanie Bataillard-Samuel of MBS Family Law is joined by Steven Bradley, cybersecurity expert with Our Family Wizard. Steven had an extensive law enforcement career focusing on investigating crimes against persons, specialising in sex crimes, child abuse, domestic violence, and crimes against the elderly in the United States. He was recruited by the FBI to start a task forc...

I n today's episode Melanie Bataillard-Samuel of MBS Family Law is joined by Zoe Fleetwood of Mills & Reeves.  Zoe is a highly experienced children lawyer and heads Mills & Reeves’ children law team.  Well-known for handling complex cases, Zoe’s experience includes child abduction, wardship, care proceedings, surrogacy, adoption and forced marriage, as well as disputes involving...

In today's episode Melanie Bataillard-Samuel of MBS Family Law is joined by Gillian Bishop. Gillian is family law solicitor, she's a trained collaborative lawyer, children's law arbitrator, mediator and family law supervisor. She's also a lawyer at Family Law in Partnership of which she is a founding member. Gillian for many year chaired resolution's skills and support committee. In this episode M...

In this Christmas Special we've decided to flip the script. James Evans of Our Family Wizard will be hosting a very special guest, Melanie Bataillard-Samuel. Melanie Bataillard-Samuel - MBS Family Law James Evans - Our Family Wizard

In today's episode Melanie Bataillard-Samuel of MBS Family Law is joined by Matthew Richardson of Coram Chambers. Matt is a barrister and a mediator. As a barrister he specialises in financial remedy and family property cases including divorce, the separation of unmarried people, the interests of wider family members (TOLATA), and financial support for children (Schedule 1). As a mediator, special...

In today's episode Melanie Is joined by Graeme Fraser, Partner and Head of Family at BBS Law. Graeme has considerable experience in advising on financial settlements involving complex assets and substantial wealth, and on cohabitation, for which he holds the Resolution specialist accreditation. He maintains a keen interest in the legal rights of unmarried parents, and is chair of Resolution’s Coha...

In today's episode Melanie is joined by Peter Burgess, family law solicitor, mediator and one of the founding partners of Burgess Mee in London.  Pete's practice encompasses all aspects of high net worth family law – from prenuptial agreements to trusts, and private children matters to capacity issues. In this episode Pete and Melanie focus on the complex subject of international relocation f...

Before the summer Melanie had the pleasure of interviewing the Co-Chairs of Resolution’s Equality, Diversity & Inclusion Committee – Remyhs Baker and Yanoulla Kakoulli. Our regular listeners will remember Remyhs from previous episodes.  Remyhs is an associate Solicitor at Pinney Talfourd specialising in dealing with financial provision, private children matters, divorce, grandparent/famil...

We’re back for Season 2 of Family Law & Lattes! The first guest of this new season is family law barrister and commentator Lucy Reed of 36 Family in London and St John’s Chambers in Bristol. Lucy is very active in the family law community as a speaker, trainer, member of various committees and Chair of the Transparency Project.  Which is handy since Lucy and I will be discussing the hot t...

In this week's episode I am joined by Malvika Jaganmohan and Rebecca Cross of St Ives Chambers in Birmingham. They are the co-authors of the book ‘A Practical Guide to Practice Direction 12J and Domestic Abuse in Private Law Children Proceedings’ published by Law Brief Publishing which we will be referencing today. It’s a very helpful ‘everyday guide’ for family law practitioners on the treatment...

Today Melanie is joined by Jo O’Sullivan, Bob Grieg and Rebecca Giraud.  Bob & Rebecca run Only Mums & Dads, the national online support and signposting service for parents who are going through or have ben through separation / divorce.  The best introduction to Jo is from her Twitter profile - Peacemaking family lawyer accredited mediator nationally recognised collaborative prac...

In today's episode Melanie is joined by Mary Marvel, Head of Communications and Deputy CEO of Law for Life, a charity dedicated to ensuring everyone has the knowledge, skills and confidence that they need to secure access to justice.  LFL run the award winning Advicenow website, deliver community-based training and other educational programmes and engage in research and policy. Together we're...

Happy 1st Birthday to Family Law & Lattes!!! Our 21st guest is Sir James Munby - previously a barrister, Judge and President of the Family Division.  In this episode I've taken advantage of having Sir James as my guest to discuss a whole raft of family law related matters and seek his thoughts and guidance.  We cover transparency in the courts, privatisation of family law, HMCTS and...

Happy 1st Birthday to Family Law & Lattes!!! Our 21st guest is Sir James Munby - previously a barrister, Judge and President of the Family Division.  In this episode I've taken advantage of having Sir James as my guest to discuss a whole raft of family law related matters and seek his thoughts and guidance.  We cover transparency in the courts, privatisation of family law, HMCTS and...

In this episode Melanie is joined by Charlotte Kibler of CK Legal in Paris. Charlotte is a specialist family lawyer who is dual qualified as an Avocat in France and a solicitor in England and Wales. Together they look at family law in France and in particular the concept of matrimonial regimes and marriage contracts.

In today's episode Melanie is joined by Amanda Adeola, a family law Partner at BHP Law. Amanda is an advocate for diversity and change in the profession and is also a supporter of aspiring lawyers as well as young lawyers in the region. She is also a member for the Resolution's Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Committee. Together they'll be discussing the complexities and importance of cultural n...

This is the third our "Building Your Team" series and we're joined by Alison Porter of Pennywise Consultants. Pennywise Consultants are financial lifestyle analysts who specialise in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets. Their service is used to help clients figure out how much they will need to finance their personal life, children, pets and property and are frequently used du...

For the first episode of 2022 we're doing things a little differently.  Today's guest is Georgina Sheeran, service manager at the invaluable UK legal charity Support Through Court.  We'll be discussing with Georgina the work of Support Through Court in supporting people who have to represent themselves in court. Their aim is to "reduce the disadvantage of people facing the civil and fami...

For the second episode is our 'Building Your Team' series we're joined by Tom Nash aka Mr Divorce Coach, an internationally certified and specialist divorce, separation and family coach.  We'll be looking at divorce coaching, what it is, how it works and how it can help your clients.

We are pleased to welcome back Max Turnell of 1 Kings Bench Walk for the second episode in our series looking at Trusts in family matters.  Max will be looking prevention and avoidance of disposition of assets and Section 37 of the MCA.

In this episode Melanie is joined by Tamsin Caine, Chartered Financial Planner at Smart Divorce, the specialist financial advice group for people facing divorce. This is the first in our 'building your team' series in which I meet with the different family law professionals that make up our clients' 'family law' team'.