Lucina Troy

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Senior Associate

Family Law

+44 (0) 3330 143 401

Expertise

Lucina specialises in Private Children Law. She advises on all aspects both domestic and international, and her cases are often complex. She has considerable experience in the niche practice area concerning complex multi-jurisdictional children matters. She advises high net worth individuals, expats, individuals with a connection to a foreign country, and those from multinational families, assisting them with family matters under English law where there is an international element.

Lucina also advises on Children Law matters in the Global Mobility space. She advises individuals and also works with Global Mobility Teams within businesses and organisations, enhancing their relocation support services offering.

Lucina has practiced in Jersey, Channel Islands, working with one of the Island’s leading Family Law Advocates.

Lucina’s international practice is enhanced by her language skills (English, French, German and Italian) and she studied Modern Languages at Oxford University.

Lucina undertakes a wide variety of work, including child arrangements and matters of parental responsibility, child relocation, child abduction, injunctions and protective orders, disclosure orders, recognition and enforcement of foreign orders, breaches of orders and enforcement, and appeals.

Lucina trained at Magic Circle law firm Freshfields and practiced in Litigation / Dispute Resolution. She is passionate about her work, robust and tenacious, and a skilled strategist with strong technical knowledge and ability. Clients praise the outstanding service and support which Lucina provides.

Lucina Advises

  • Medium and HNW individuals
  • Expats and individuals with connections to countries outside of the UK
  • Individuals from multinational families
  • Domestic children disputes within the UK, including with whom the child lives and spends time, and issues of education, religion, and parental responsibility
  • Relocation with a child within the UK
  • International cross-border children disputes involving Hague and non-Hague Convention countries
  • Relocation with a child from the UK to a different country
  • Preventing a child from being abducted from the UK
  • Securing the return of an abducted child to the UK
  • Breaches of orders and enforcement
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign orders
  • Injunctions and protection orders
  • Disclosure orders

Experience Highlights

  • Representing a client of a multinational family whose child had been wrongfully removed from the UK by the other parent. Securing a series of robust urgent orders at the Central Family Court in London preventing abduction, including a disclosure order upon a third party as to the whereabouts of the child.
  • Securing a stay of execution of an order pending an application to the Family Division of the High Court for permission to appeal a final order.
  • Assisting a client in gaining permission from the court to relocate with the children from the UK to Spain.
  • Representing a client of a multinational family whose former partner was Russian and threatened abduction of the child to Russia. Obtaining urgent orders to prevent abduction including removal of the child’s passport and a permanent prohibition on travel to Russia or any other non-Hague Convention jurisdiction.
  • Successfully negotiating on behalf of a client directly with the other parent to agree a consent order for the client to relocate overseas with the children.
  • Representing a client whose former partner persistently breached court orders relating to their child, resulting in successful enforcement and a penal notice being attached to the order.

Career History

Previous Law Firms

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • Viberts
  • Taylor Walton

Education

  • Oxford University, BA Hons Modern Languages
  • The College of Law, London (now known as The University of Law) (CPE and LPC)

Expertise

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Lucina specialises in Private Children Law. She advises on all aspects both domestic and international, and her cases are often complex. She has considerable experience in the niche practice area concerning complex multi-jurisdictional children matters. She advises high net worth individuals, expats, individuals with a connection to a foreign country, and those from multinational families, assisting them with family matters under English law where there is an international element.

Lucina also advises on Children Law matters in the Global Mobility space. She advises individuals and also works with Global Mobility Teams within businesses and organisations, enhancing their relocation support services offering.

Lucina has practiced in Jersey, Channel Islands, working with one of the Island’s leading Family Law Advocates.

Lucina’s international practice is enhanced by her language skills (English, French, German and Italian) and she studied Modern Languages at Oxford University.

Lucina undertakes a wide variety of work, including child arrangements and matters of parental responsibility, child relocation, child abduction, injunctions and protective orders, disclosure orders, recognition and enforcement of foreign orders, breaches of orders and enforcement, and appeals.

Lucina trained at Magic Circle law firm Freshfields and practiced in Litigation / Dispute Resolution. She is passionate about her work, robust and tenacious, and a skilled strategist with strong technical knowledge and ability. Clients praise the outstanding service and support which Lucina provides.

Lucina Advises

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  • Medium and HNW individuals
  • Expats and individuals with connections to countries outside of the UK
  • Individuals from multinational families
  • Domestic children disputes within the UK, including with whom the child lives and spends time, and issues of education, religion, and parental responsibility
  • Relocation with a child within the UK
  • International cross-border children disputes involving Hague and non-Hague Convention countries
  • Relocation with a child from the UK to a different country
  • Preventing a child from being abducted from the UK
  • Securing the return of an abducted child to the UK
  • Breaches of orders and enforcement
  • Recognition and enforcement of foreign orders
  • Injunctions and protection orders
  • Disclosure orders

Experience Highlights

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  • Representing a client of a multinational family whose child had been wrongfully removed from the UK by the other parent. Securing a series of robust urgent orders at the Central Family Court in London preventing abduction, including a disclosure order upon a third party as to the whereabouts of the child.
  • Securing a stay of execution of an order pending an application to the Family Division of the High Court for permission to appeal a final order.
  • Assisting a client in gaining permission from the court to relocate with the children from the UK to Spain.
  • Representing a client of a multinational family whose former partner was Russian and threatened abduction of the child to Russia. Obtaining urgent orders to prevent abduction including removal of the child’s passport and a permanent prohibition on travel to Russia or any other non-Hague Convention jurisdiction.
  • Successfully negotiating on behalf of a client directly with the other parent to agree a consent order for the client to relocate overseas with the children.
  • Representing a client whose former partner persistently breached court orders relating to their child, resulting in successful enforcement and a penal notice being attached to the order.

Career History

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Previous Law Firms

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
  • Viberts
  • Taylor Walton

Education

  • Oxford University, BA Hons Modern Languages
  • The College of Law, London (now known as The University of Law) (CPE and LPC)
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