Charlotte Cooper

My Approach

My aim is to provide clear and conscientious advice to all my clients to help them achieve the best possible outcome in their case. I am also mindful of the difficulties which can be experienced during a relationship breakdown and will take a pragmatic approach in order to minimise acrimony and costs.

Area of Expertise

• All aspects of divorce and civil partnership dissolution
• Financial disputes arising from relationship breakdown including disputes over property, pensions and maintenance
• Disputes involving children including access, contact, choice of school, relocation and holidays
• Emergency Applications to protect children e.g. preventing them from being taken abroad
• Emergency Applications relating to Domestic Violence
• Relocation of Children inside and outside of England
• Child Abduction
• Financial Disputes between unmarried partners (i.e. cohabitee disputes)
• Cohabitation Agreements

I predominantly assist partners, Ian Butterworth and Katie Taft, in all aspects of their work.

Recent Work

I have assisted in the following cases:

• Representing parents of abducted children in the High Court
• Representing a client who had been subjected to significant domestic violence in a dispute over child arrangements
• Obtaining an Injunction against a violent ex partner to protect our client from further physical or emotional abuse
• Representing a father in his application for the child to live with him
• Negotiating financial settlements for a number of unmarried clients

Professional Associations & Qualifications

• Graduate Member of the Chartered Institute of Legal Executives
• CILEx Level 6 Professional Higher Diploma in Law & Practice – Family Law – November 2020