Trevona
Hettiarachchi
Senior Associate
Divorce and Family
+44 (0)20 7822 8105
Trevona advises on all aspects of family law, with extensive experience and proficiency dealing with complex children matters such as those that include multifaceted court proceedings, as well as settling arrangements for children and finances on the separation of parents.
Expertise
Trevona has developed a specialist practice in complex private children law matters, advising on all issues involving children upon parental separation, including contact arrangements, welfare-related disputes, Schedule 1 claims and highly contentious Children Act proceedings, particularly those involving protracted multi-layered proceedings.
Trevona is regularly instructed in relation to matters that have international elements, including international and domestic leave to remove cases, cross-jurisdictional matters and child abduction.
Trevona’s approach to children matters is to provide pragmatic, sensitive and strategic advice, enabling her clients to resolve matters in a child-centric way.
Trevona is also highly skilled and experienced in advising on financial settlements on divorce, including advising on pre-marital wealth, post marital accrual, complex valuation issues and cases involving intricate business and income structures.
Trevona has extensive experience working with and supporting vulnerable clients, having received specialist training from accredited organisations and practitioners.
Accreditations and Memberships
- Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association)
- Association of Lawyers for Children
Personal
Trevona enjoys travelling with her young family.
Experience
Trevona advised in the landmark internal relocation case Re C [2015] EWCA Civ 1305, heard in the Court of Appeal.
Trevona frequently advises in high-conflict children disputes involving parental alienation, coercive control, domestic abuse, mental health issues and addiction.
She also has extensive experience advising on and drafting pre- and post-nuptial agreements.
Career
Trevona read law at Durham, trained at Stewarts and qualified in 2011. She became an Associate in 2016 and a Senior Associate in 2019.
Publications and Media
- What can divorced parents do if they disagree when choosing a school for their child? – Luxury London
- How does the family court approach disagreements between parents about Covid-19 vaccinations for children?
- Podcasts: The law on child relocation and abduction
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