Frances Hughes

Chair of board of family law niche practice and leading figure in family law for many years specialising in complex financial cases, including those with substantial business assets and partnerships; trusts and tax problem cases involving foreign jurisdictions; cohabitation cases; prenuptial agreements and also private children’s residence and other children’s matters including child abduction. · Hughes Fowler Carruthers

EnglandFamily / Matrimonial, Financial Remedies

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Chair of the board of the family law practice at Hughes Fowler Carruthers and a long‑standing leading figure in family law, specialising in complex financial remedies (including cases with substantial business assets and partnerships), trusts and cross‑border tax issues, cohabitation and prenuptial agreements, and children's matters including residence and child abduction.

Practice areas

Family / MatrimonialFinancial RemediesTrustsTaxPrivate ChildrenCohabitationPre-nuptial AgreementsInternational Family Law

Office

England

Hughes Fowler Carruthers · Chair of board of family law niche practice and leading figure in family law for many years specialising in complex financial cases, including those with substantial business assets and partnerships; trusts and tax problem cases involving foreign jurisdictions; cohabitation cases; prenuptial agreements and also private children’s residence and other children’s matters including child abduction.

England

Expertise

Complex financial cases involving business assets & partnershipsTrusts and cross‑border tax issuesCohabitation and prenuptial agreementsChildren’s residence matters and child abduction

Education

Ursuline School, Wimbledon
St Anne's College, Oxford (MA)

Admissions

Qualified (1981)
Fellow, International Academy of Family Lawyers
Accredited FMA mediator (2006)
Accredited Resolution (formerly SFLA) mediator (2006)