Expertise
Bianca has a passion for family law and assisting clients to navigate complex decisions during a difficult period in their lives. Her calm and pragmatic advice assists clients to focus on the essential issues, to get the best result.
Bianca advises and supports her clients with all legal issues on the breakdown of relationships including the financial aspects of divorce. She had dealt with company structures, partnerships, pensions, investments, and property; including those located abroad.
In disagreements about who children live with and spend their time with Bianca has been able to act quickly, and direct her attention to the critical issues. She has successfully helped her clients with the relocation of children, child arrangements, reports following the appointment of a guardian, and resolving issues about schooling and handover.
For cohabiting couples Bianca has an excellent understanding of the separation of finances, TOLATA claims, and applications under Schedule 1 of the Children Act. Bianca has successfully applied for non-molestation and occupation orders for her cohabiting clients who have been subject to domestic violence.
Bianca’s fertility law experience includes advising modern families on all types of fertility law questions. Her surrogacy experience includes contested parental order cases in the High Court, where a surrogate applied for child arrangements.
She advises on wealth protection for international families including pre and post nuptial agreements. Having many international clients, she understands the importance of advice across jurisdictions to ensure assets are protected for a potential future break up.
Bianca has practised family law in the UK since 2015. Originally qualified in Western Australia, her background in employment law and civil litigation gives a well-rounded understanding of legal issues and the experience of the client. She is admitted to the Supreme Court of Western Australia and has cross qualified as a solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.
Bianca assists parties to reach agreement at the early stages, often avoiding the need for proceedings to be issued but is realistic about cases that require litigation and will not shy away from confrontation to obtain the required result for her clients. Recent cases include:
• A husbands’ significant future earned bonus payments within financial remedy proceedings, and
• The valuation of several complex companies and analysis of detailed expert reports in preparation for contested financial remedy proceedings.
In Modern Family advice, Bianca’s extensive experience includes advising couples on fertility law questions around parenthood and treatment, while her surrogacy experience includes helping to resolve contested parental order cases in the High Court.
