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Sharon Giles LLB (Hons)

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I am an experienced family lawyer and collaborative practitioner, heading up the family law team.

I actively promote, and personally adopt, a conciliatory approach to family law disputes and so encourage my clients to resolve their issues in a calm and constructive way, even at court.

I specialise in complex financial matters often involving business interests, significant pension resources and/or properties and investments owned abroad. I also advise on the various preventative and protective measures that can be put into place to avoid future disputes such as nuptial and co-habitation agreements.

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T 01242 542926 M 07713 201418 E sharon.giles@willans.co.uk

Key skills

I can help you with:

  • all aspects of divorce, dissolution and financial remedy processes, whether addressed round a table or at court
  • legal and financial issues arising for non-married separating couples
  • child arrangements, to include specific issues such as school fees orders, top up orders and family relocations
  • preventative and protective measures, such as nuptial and co-habitation agreements.

Experience highlights

I have:

  • negotiated a significant out of court settlement – in collaboration with the husband’s solicitor, counsel on both parts and trusts experts – for a wife who had signed an Italian agreement on the day of marriage some 20 years prior, which, if upheld, would have reduced her claim to a nominal sum
  • successfully enforced a school fees court order for several children of a family where the husband sought to subsequently renege on arrangements
  • secured a capitalised child maintenance lump sum as part of a divorce settlement package for a wife whose husband had been diagnosed with terminal illness and so achieved financial security for their 2 young children for the duration of their childhood.
  • "May I say a huge thank you for all you have done for me on this case. The people of Cheltenham will be very lucky to have you."
    Client feedback
  • "Excellent impartial real world advice on a sensitive matter."
    Client feedback
  • "Thank you, too, for making a most unwanted and very unwelcome event as smooth as possible in the circumstances. "
    Client feedback
  • "Am very glad I came to you. Your calm, non-adversarial approach is exactly what I needed and wanted, even in a pandemic! "
    Client feedback
  • "Sharon Giles stands out as being an approachable, pragmatic and supportive family lawyer. She is able to engage and understand where clients are coming from but also able to provide pragmatic advice."
    The Legal 500
  • Resolution logo member
  • The Legal 500 recommended lawyer 2022
  • The Legal 500 recommended lawyer 2021
  • The Legal 500 recommended lawyer 2020

Sharon Giles LLB (Hons) can help you with a range of services

Family, relationships & divorce
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Divorce or separation
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Prenuptial agreements
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Financial issues & agreements
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Cohabitation agreements
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Children
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