Knights PLC

Knights PLC

The UK’s leading legal and professional services business with over 1,100 professionals delivering high-quality services to a highly diversified client base of over 10,000+ businesses (FROM MULTI-NATIONAL CORPORATES TO SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES) and ALL MANNER OF private clients from 26 office locations across the UK. OUR PRIVATE WEALTH BUSINESS IS THE MARKET-LEADING PROVIDER OF PROFESSIONAL ADVISORY SERVICES TO CLIENTS WITHIN THE UK, SERVICING ALL THE LEGAL, TAX AND OTHER ADVISORY NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS, FAMILIES, TRUSTEES, FAMILY OFFICES AND THE BUSINESSES AND INSTITUTIONS WHICH SUPPORT THEM.

She specialises in all aspects of family law and advises on divorce, separation, finances, children, nuptial and co-habitation agreements, and has experience advising and negotiating financial settlements involving clients with business assets, pensions, pre-post separation acquired assets, inheritance and property portfolios.

For couples who are planning to live together, marry or enter a civil partnership, she advises on wealth protection via cohabitation agreements and pre and post-nuptial agreements. Understanding the sensitivity around entering into agreements of this nature has enabled Charlotte to build a strong and reliable reputation in this area.

Charlotte works with separating parents and advises on parental responsibility, childcare arrangements and internal and external relocation cases.

She is a member of Resolution and is Family Law Accredited.

Here are some recent examples of clients she’s supported:

• advising and negotiating upon a financial settlement in a long marriage with assets including a family business, more than million pound pension provision and a property portfolio
• securing a financial settlement for a wife who would continue to be responsible for her disabled adult son whilst the husband lived and worked in a foreign country
• negotiating a settlement on behalf of a husband whose wife pursued him for a financial settlement 25 years after separation
• supporting a client during the negotiation and drafting of a prenuptial agreement to protect significant family inheritance and assets
• securing the return of a child who had been removed from the jurisdiction by his mother, whilst working collaboratively with solicitors in Northen Ireland and successfully defending a jurisdictional issue within the United Kingdom
• successfully representing a father against an application by the mother to relocate their child to New Zealand.

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