Karen Pritchard

Karen handles divorce and complex financial settlements involving farms, business interests, pension assets, trusts and inherited wealth.

She has particular expertise around wealth protection, using pre- and post-nuptial agreements to preserve wealth and protect assets including business assets, pensions and generational farms.

Notable Family cases

• Farming Divorce
  

  Acting for wife in contested financial proceedings involving a mixture of farming assets, a partnership, residential property and a business. This required the input of various experts for valuation and tax implications and how to extract capital efficiently to minimise tax and maintain income.

• Divorce & Financial Matters
  

  Acting for a husband in a case with substantial pension assets across a mixture of several schemes including public service final salary schemes. Instructing a pension actuary to advise on the appropriate pension sharing order including which schemes it would be most beneficial to share.

• Divorce & Financial Matters
  

  Representing a wife whose husband failed to provide full disclosure of his financial circumstances and eventually obtaining the relevant information which led to a fair settlement.

• Pre-nuptial Agreement
  

  Preparing a pre-nuptial agreement where there was substantial inherited wealth including a family farm.