Cara Nuttall

Cara is a Partner and leads our family law team. She’s highly experienced in children and modern families law and specialises in child abduction, child relocation and surrogacy. As a qualified Children Arbitrator, Cara can adjudicate on a wide range of matters relating to children. Cara further advises on all aspects of relationship breakdown — including divorce and financial matters — as well as cases with international elements and in respect of enforcement, including committal. She assists a diverse range of clients from various backgrounds who are based both in the UK and abroad. Cara’s work involves complex and sometimes novel points of law. She has been involved in many significant decisions across both children and financial matters and is actively involved in efforts to review and reform the law where needed. This has seen her participate in regional and national family law committees like Resolution, Women in Family Law, the Child Abduction Lawyers Association and LGBT Family Law Institute, along with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on surrogacy. She frequently appears in the media to discuss family law issues and featured as legal advisor in the Channel 4 documentary ‘Strangers Making Babies’. With a particular specialisms in complex domestic and international children law, modern family structures (including grandparents, step-families, extended families and platonic parenting arrangements) and building families through surrogacy, donation and co-parenting (platonic parenting) arrangements, Cara has extensive experience in cases that involve welfare concerns such as domestic abuse, substance and alcohol misuse and allegations of alienation. She has acquired Resolution specialist status for private law children matters and child abduction. Cara features on the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025, which recognises lawyers who undertook 25 hours or more of legal pro bono work over the last year. · Brabners LLP

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Cara Nuttall is a Partner at Brabners LLP who leads the firm's family law team and is a qualified Children Arbitrator. She specialises in children and modern families law — particularly child abduction, child relocation and surrogacy — and also advises on divorce and financial matters, international cases, enforcement (including committal) and complex welfare issues; she is active in professional committees and is on the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025.

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Family / DivorceChildrenChild AbductionSurrogacyInternational FamilyFamily FinanceAlternative Dispute Resolution

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England

Brabners LLP · Cara is a Partner and leads our family law team. She’s highly experienced in children and modern families law and specialises in child abduction, child relocation and surrogacy. As a qualified Children Arbitrator, Cara can adjudicate on a wide range of matters relating to children. Cara further advises on all aspects of relationship breakdown — including divorce and financial matters — as well as cases with international elements and in respect of enforcement, including committal. She assists a diverse range of clients from various backgrounds who are based both in the UK and abroad. Cara’s work involves complex and sometimes novel points of law. She has been involved in many significant decisions across both children and financial matters and is actively involved in efforts to review and reform the law where needed. This has seen her participate in regional and national family law committees like Resolution, Women in Family Law, the Child Abduction Lawyers Association and LGBT Family Law Institute, along with the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on surrogacy. She frequently appears in the media to discuss family law issues and featured as legal advisor in the Channel 4 documentary ‘Strangers Making Babies’. With a particular specialisms in complex domestic and international children law, modern family structures (including grandparents, step-families, extended families and platonic parenting arrangements) and building families through surrogacy, donation and co-parenting (platonic parenting) arrangements, Cara has extensive experience in cases that involve welfare concerns such as domestic abuse, substance and alcohol misuse and allegations of alienation. She has acquired Resolution specialist status for private law children matters and child abduction. Cara features on the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025, which recognises lawyers who undertook 25 hours or more of legal pro bono work over the last year.

England

Expertise

Child abductionChild relocationSurrogacy and assisted reproductionModern family structures (grandparents, step‑families, platonic parenting)International family lawDivorce and financial remediesEnforcement and committalChildren arbitrationWelfare concerns (domestic abuse, substance misuse, parental alienation)