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Turner Nicholson, a small family law firm, was founded by Brigid Turner and John Nicholson and has offices in Clerkenwell, east London, and near Banbury, Oxfordshire.
During the past year, its caseload of complex work has included representing a self-made businessman in divorce proceedings, in a dispute centred on the £30 million business that he had built up during the marriage. His sons, who ran the business with him, expected to take over its ownership in due course. However, on divorce, his wife argued that the business should be sold and the proceeds divided. The judge ruled in the husband’s favour, leaving the business intact, and ordered a payment over time of less than 50 per cent of its value to the wife.
The firm acted for the mother of two children, one of whom is living in a clinic abroad after an accident. It dealt with issues concerning contact and the division of matrimonial assets of about £50 million, some of which were held in a foreign trust structure.
Turner Nicholson also acted for the father of a very young child whose mother suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder. Contact between the father and child had to take place in a near-sterile environment, making a conventional relationship impossible, but the firm secured an order for contact that built up to 50:50 care between the parents.
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