Michelle Camacho

Michelle qualified, as a Solicitor in November 1997 and is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Complex Financial Remedies and Private Children Law matters. As a trained Collaborative Family Lawyer, which is a Dispute Resolution process, Michelle assists her clients in resolving their matters amicably by avoiding costly court battles. Should the intervention of the court be necessary, Michelle is a skilful advocate who is able to represent her clients throughout the court process. Having experienced the divorce process, herself and since re-married Michelle’s aim is not to add to her clients’ problems but to help them to divorce, with dignity and successfully move on with their lives.

Michelle advises on all types of family law including: –

• Complex medium to high net worth divorces and dissolution of civil partnerships; some of which have involved an international aspect
• Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
• Pre-Civil Partnership Agreements
• Living Together/Cohabitee Agreements
• Separation Agreements
• Declaratory Trust Deeds
• Cohabitee/Relationship Disputes and claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act
• Domestic Abuse/Violence
• Financial claims made against an estate by a surviving spouse and/or dependant
• Leave to permanently remove children outside the UK
• Child arrangements following breakdown of relationship

Experience Highlights

• Skilfully advising and negotiating financial settlements to avoid costly court battles
• Securing a significant lump sum for a wife in a childless marriage of only four months where the parties were both working full-time earning similar incomes and had no joint assets
• Securing a significant lump sum for a surviving spouse whose husband had secretly transferred his sole ownership in the former matrimonial home to his daughter from a previous marriage and made no provisions for her in his Will
• Securing a pre-marital asset and chargeable interest in the former matrimonial home on a clean break basis for a husband in a lengthy marriage with three dependent children
• Securing an Order for sale, reimbursement of mortgage interest and capital payments made over a period of more than 10 years, as well, as a significant cost order for a client in a Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees case
• Acting in high court proceedings in relation to children matters where a child has been made a ward of the court and/or is at threat of abduction
• Representing a mother in a leave to permanently remove case where after meticulous cross-examination of the father, leave was granted contrary to the clear recommendation of the CAFCASS Officer to refuse mother’s application

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