Andrew Todd - Partner and Head of Family Law

Mission
To help clients put their lives back together. Andrew is a strong supporter of Collaborative Practice and its ability to enable clients to minimise conflict, focus on the overall needs of the family and their children and to retain as much control over their lives as possible

Approach
Views problems that arise when a relationship breaks down as being best resolved by a measured constructive approach, seeking to arrive at solutions that work whilst always ensuring his client’s interests are protected

Experience includes
Complex financial disputes between husbands and wives (or civil partners) involving substantial assets or attempts to hide assets
Whether the proceedings should take place in England or a foreign jurisdiction and managing the choice
Enforcing financial agreements and orders
Enforcing foreign orders
A parent’s desire to emigrate with their children and the application to the court for permission
Recovering children who have been unlawfully abducted abroad
Disputes relating to the residence or contact of children
Disputes relating to the paternity of children and parental responsibility
Adoption
Injunctions whether to prevent physical harm to an individual, to regulate the occupation of property or to protect financial resources
Disputes between co-habitees
Financial provision for children

Clients include
Parents, business men and women, professionals, civil servants, military officers, actors, musicians and artists

Other activities
A founder member of Resolution, a member of the Law Society Family Law Panel and is a Resolution trained Mediator and Collaborative Practitioner; also sits as a Deputy District Judge at the Principal Registry of the Family Division. Andrew also lectures to the profession both in person and by Legal Network Television’s training scheme.

Education
LLB, University College London 1973; College of Law, London, 1974