Claire Govier
Solicitor
Claire is a Solicitor in the Family Team and a Member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitors Family Law Association).
Claire qualified as a Solicitor is 2001 having previously been a school teacher. Claire specialises in all aspects of Family Law including divorce, pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements, cohabitation disputes and financial disputes following separation. Claire also handles cases involving domestic violence and all child related matters arising from separation. Claire deals with both privately paid and publicly funded matters and has experience in High Net Worth cases.
Claire has recently advised in relation to:
- A financial dispute between Husband and Wife which took into account the Respondent’s serious conduct and substantial inheritance received by the Applicant after the parties’ separated.
- A financial dispute between cohabitees where the house was in joint names but one of them had built the house and argued a majority share of the proceeds of sale.
- A case where the Father alleged that the Mother would not return their child to the UK if she was allowed to go on holiday to India with the child. As the UK home had been sold and the parties were in negotiations regarding a fair division of the net proceeds of sale, the Father argued at Court that there should be a financial bond in place, representing the Mother’s share of the sale proceeds, to guarantee the return of the child to the UK.
