Lucina Troy

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Senior Associate

Family Law

+44 (0) 3330 143 401

Expertise

Lucina is a specialist Children Lawyer. She works with separated parents who have a disagreement with the other parent about an issue regarding their child, and want legal advice to help resolve it.

Parents come to Lucina for advice on the following the issues:

  • Arrangements for the children – who the child lives with, how they spend time with the other parent, education and other matters of parental responsibility.
  • Relocating with a child within the UK and overseas.
  • Abduction of a child overseas.
  • Financial provision for a child.

Lucina provides a bespoke, premium service to her clients in three ways:

  1. She is not a generalist family lawyer — she only practises children law. This means that her entire focus, experience, and expertise is in children law, and the value she offers her clients stems from being so niche. Children law is a subjective and nuanced area of law, and Lucina provides the human judgment and advice which is essential to navigate it.
  2. Lucina runs her own practice within gunnercooke, a platform firm that allows her to work differently from being in a traditional law firm. She only takes on a select number of clients at any one time, unlike lawyers at a traditional law firm who have a large caseload to manage. Lucina runs her cases and there is no delegation to a PA, secretary, or junior, meaning that my clients are in regular direct contact with her. This is invaluable during what can be a stressful and emotionally challenging time.
  3. Lucina brings a unique perspective: she has personal experience of the family justice system as a parent. Many lawyers do not. This insight enables her to support her clients with a genuine understanding of the practical and emotional challenges involved.

Lucina’s niche practice and the way in which she works means she is well-placed to advise affluent and high net worth individuals, who often face unique and complex challenges due to global mobility, lifestyle, and heightened privacy concerns.

Lucina’s international work is enhanced by her language skills. She speaks and reads French to an excellent level and has lived and worked in Paris; she is proficient in German, and competent at a basic level in Italian.

To book a 20 minute complementary call with Lucina please contact her at [email protected].

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
  • 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 is a specialist Children Lawyer. She works with separated parents who have a disagreement with the other parent about an issue regarding their child, and want legal advice to help resolve it.

Parents come to Lucina for advice on the following the issues:

  • Arrangements for the children – who the child lives with, how they spend time with the other parent, education and other matters of parental responsibility.
  • Relocating with a child within the UK and overseas.
  • Abduction of a child overseas.
  • Financial provision for a child.

Lucina provides a bespoke, premium service to her clients in three ways:

  1. She is not a generalist family lawyer — she only practises children law. This means that her entire focus, experience, and expertise is in children law, and the value she offers her clients stems from being so niche. Children law is a subjective and nuanced area of law, and Lucina provides the human judgment and advice which is essential to navigate it.
  2. Lucina runs her own practice within gunnercooke, a platform firm that allows her to work differently from being in a traditional law firm. She only takes on a select number of clients at any one time, unlike lawyers at a traditional law firm who have a large caseload to manage. Lucina runs her cases and there is no delegation to a PA, secretary, or junior, meaning that my clients are in regular direct contact with her. This is invaluable during what can be a stressful and emotionally challenging time.
  3. Lucina brings a unique perspective: she has personal experience of the family justice system as a parent. Many lawyers do not. This insight enables her to support her clients with a genuine understanding of the practical and emotional challenges involved.

Lucina’s niche practice and the way in which she works means she is well-placed to advise affluent and high net worth individuals, who often face unique and complex challenges due to global mobility, lifestyle, and heightened privacy concerns.

Lucina’s international work is enhanced by her language skills. She speaks and reads French to an excellent level and has lived and worked in Paris; she is proficient in German, and competent at a basic level in Italian.

To book a 20 minute complementary call with Lucina please contact her at [email protected].

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
  • 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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