Jessica Williams

Examples of her work include:

Financial aspects of relationship breakdown

• Dealing with financial court proceedings and negotiating financial settlements.
• Dealing with cases with overseas properties, property adjustment orders and dealing with development land/arable land within divorce proceedings.
• Dealing with spousal maintenance and child maintenance
• Dealing with pension splitting and the resolution of financial planning aspects of divorce.

Children Contact and Residence

• Obtaining contact orders and obtaining orders for no contact (where relevant).
• Dealing with cases where there is an element of domestic abuse or domestic abuse is alleged successfully obtaining findings of abuse (finding of fact hearings) and quashing claims of violence in finding of fact hearings by obtaining and producing evidential facts.
• Advising in residence applications and removal from the jurisdiction cases.

Divorce

• Acting in undefended divorce proceedings.
• Acting in defended divorce proceedings and successfully obtaining the divorce.
• Advising and completing divorces, including dealing with missing spouses and deemed service of proceedings (where spouses won’t return the acknowledgment of service, thereby prohibiting matters from concluding).
• Dealing with cross-petitions.
• Dealing with cases where there are proceedings issued in another jurisdiction.

Non-molestation injunctions and Harassment orders

• Examples include obtaining an injunction for a rape victim, a severe domestic abuse and harassment order for a neighbour dispute, injunctions against family members and warning letters.
• Working closely with Survive (a local charity that supports women and children that have experienced domestic violence).
• Providing legal advice at the Survive drop-in advice centres, for women who have suffered domestic violence.
• Working with Sovereign Housing Association to assist those that are experiencing violence (both men and women).