Gemma Bowes

Call 2009
Email gemma.bowes@3pb.co.uk
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Family

Gemma specialises in family law. She has experience in the High Court, County Courts and Family Proceedings Courts.

She accepts instructions from all parties in financial, private child and public law proceedings, and in applications under the Family Law Act 1996.

She provides written advice, and represents clients in negotiations and court hearings at all stages of proceedings, including multi-day fact finding and final hearings.

Her work encompasses:

Financial

• ‘Ancillary relief’ – including issues of family businesses, inherited wealth, post-separation accruals, intervening third party interests, trusts, pensions, insolvency
• Overseas divorce
• TOLATA
• Schedule 1

Care proceedings

• Multi-day final hearings (for local authorities)
• Parents with special needs and difficulties in giving instructions
• Adoption and special guardianship
• Placement with extended family members
• Contact
• Section 38(6) assessments

Private child

• Residence and contact
• Implacable hostility and separate representation of children
• Applications by extended family members 
• Removal from the jurisdiction
• Abduction
• Change of names
• Religion
• Sexual abuse
• Domestic violence, including threats to kill children