Michelle Camacho

Expertise

Michelle qualified as a Solicitor in November 1997 and is a Resolution Accredited Specialist in Complex Financial Remedies and Private Children Law matters. As a trained Collaborative Family Lawyer, which is a Dispute Resolution process, Michelle assists her clients in resolving their matters amicably by avoiding costly court battles. Should the intervention of the court be necessary, Michelle is a skilful advocate who is able to represent her clients throughout the court process. Having experienced the divorce process herself and since re-married, Michelle’s aim is not to add to her clients’ problems but to help them to divorce with dignity and successfully move on with their lives.

Michelle Advises

• Complex medium to high net worth divorces and dissolution of civil partnerships; some of which have involved an international aspect
• Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements
• Pre-Civil Partnership Agreements
• Living Together/Cohabitee Agreements
• Separation Agreements
• Declaratory Trust Deeds
• Cohabitee/Relationship Disputes and claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act
• Domestic Abuse/Violence
• Financial claims made against an estate by a surviving spouse and/or dependant
• Leave to permanently remove children outside the UK
• Child arrangements following breakdown of relationships
• Disputes concerning the arrangements for children

Experience Highlights

• Skilfully advising and negotiating financial settlements to avoid costly court battles
• Securing a significant lump sum for a wife in a childless marriage of only four months where the parties were both working full-time earning similar incomes and had no joint assets
• Securing a significant lump sum for a surviving spouse whose husband had secretly transferred his sole ownership in the former matrimonial home to his daughter from a previous marriage and made no provisions for her in his Will
• Securing a pre-marital asset and chargeable interest in the former matrimonial home on a clean break basis for a husband in a lengthy marriage with three dependent children
• Securing an Order for sale, reimbursement of mortgage interest and capital payments made over a period of more than 10 years, as well as a significant cost order for a client in a Trust of Land and Appointment of Trustees case
• Acting in high court proceedings in relation to children matters where a child has been made a ward of the court and/or is at threat of abduction
• Representing a mother in a leave to permanently remove case where after meticulous cross-examination of the father, leave was granted contrary to the clear recommendation of the CAFCASS Officer to refuse mother’s application

Career History

Previous Law Firms

• Collaborative and Family Law Consultant Solicitor at Taylor Rose TTKW Limited

(Top 75 UK Law Firm)

• Family Law Partner at TV Edwards LLP (Legal 500 Law Firm)
• Associate Solicitor at Pearson Maddin (now Pearson Hards)
• Trainee and Assistant Solicitor at Balogun Kirvan

Memberships

• Resolution

Education

• University of Westminster
• College of Law, Guildford