
Sarah Jane Lenihan
Published: 04/02/2022 10:43
Sarah Jane Lenihan is a partner at Dawson Cornwell in the matrimonial team. She has far-reaching experience in family law, specialising in financial remedies advising individuals with substantial income and assets with complex international elements, and a variety of financial, business and trust structures.
Sarah Jane has a Family Law Advanced Accreditation from the Law Society, demonstrating her specialist knowledge in family law with a particular expertise in financial remedy and domestic abuse.
Let’s Be Clear: The Transparency Reporting Pilot for Financial Remedy Proceedings
One of the most important considerations for anyone with significant wealth, or who has a public profile and who is getting divorced, is the subject of confidentiality and privacy. It is often a key factor of any such client who is considering where and how to get divorced, and it is something matrimonial solicitors have in mind in the first meeting they have with their client. Balanced against that is the push towards increasing transparency within our family justice system, the purpose of which being to promote accountability and public confidence in the same.
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- Transparency
!28/03/2025 07:00
Do Not Sign It Unless You Intend to Be Bound By Its Terms
This is often the wording we see on the front of all well drafted pre-nuptial agreements. So why do clients sign them if they intend to try wriggle out of them at the time of a divorce?
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- Pre-Nuptial Agreements
!20/04/2023 22:43
Will ADR Be the Only Way in the Future to Avoid Publication of Financial Remedy Cases?
As I was reading through the judgment of Collardeau-Fuchs v Fuchs [2022] EWFC 6, which dealt solely with the issue of maintenance pending suit, I noted that the parties have agreed to attend a private FDR to attempt to agree the outstanding financial clai…
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- Alternative Dispute Resolution
!04/04/2022 07:00
The Real Divorce Day
As many of you will know, the media have named the first working Monday in January 'divorce day' where apparently family lawyers receive the highest number of enquiries in respect of divorce. Some Solicitors have jumped on this bandwagon and used this as…
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!11/02/2022 09:00