Lisette advises on all aspects of private family law, with specialist expertise in cross-border and jurisdictional issues. She is ranked in The Legal 500 as a Next Generation Partner.

Lisette has extensive experience in all aspects of private family law including, financial disputes on separation, divorce, children matters and cohabitation and pre-nuptial agreements. She regularly advises clients on cases involving complex jurisdictional issues to include the enforcement of foreign ‘maintenance’ orders. Lisette has secured financial remedies following a foreign divorce and maintenance for ‘abandoned spouses’.

Lisette gained her LLM in 2014, writing her dissertation on the EU Maintenance Regulation 4/2009. Her focus is international family law and is often invited to speak domestically and internationally, with an emphasis on issues surrounding Brexit. She contributed to papers regarding Brexit to include an advisory note on its implications for family law in the event of No Deal for family law. She is also co-author of Cohabitation Law, Practice and Precedents, 8th edition.

Besides her membership of AIJA, Lisette is also a member of Resolution, the Family Law Bar Association, Franco-British Lawyers Society and the International Association of Lawyers (UIA). She has recently become a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers. Lisette sits on the Law Society’s Family Law committee.