Lisette Dupré

England

Stewarts Law LLP · 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’. Notable publishable cases include: Acted for wife in financial proceedings following a foreign divorce with husband from wealthy Iranian family. The husband took his wife to the UK against her will while pregnant and then some years later abandoned her in Iran without her passport, taking their child. Prepared a pre-nuptial agreement for an international couple in London, acting in tandem with the parties’ tax planning and ring-fencing key non-marital assets. Acted for a charity wishing to intervene in a Supreme Court case of Owens v Owens to raise awareness of the draconian effect divorce law has on survivors of domestic abuse. Acted for the applicant in Mittal [2013] EWCA Civ 1255 to include pro bono in the Court of Appeal. This case concerned the court’s power to stay proceedings where there were competing divorce proceedings in another (non EU) jurisdiction.

England