Stephanie Pugh

Stephanie is an experienced family solicitor advising clients on all aspects of relationship breakdown and family matters. Specialising in divorce, financial settlements, child arrangements, and relationship planning, Stephanie provides practical legal solutions during what is often one of life’s most challenging periods.

Stephanie guides clients through every stage of the process in respect of family matters, from initial advice, negotiating settlements and finalising financial and child arrangements both in and out of court proceedings. Whether the separation is amicable or disputed, the priority is always to secure a fair and beneficial outcome, with the client’s best interests at the forefront throughout.

She is a member of Resolution and is strongly committed to resolving disputes in a supportive, resolution focused manner – balancing sensitivity, with clear and helpful legal advice.

How Stephanie can help you

• All aspects of financial separation on divorce, including property division, pensions, business interests, investments, savings, and maintenance.
• Child arrangements, schooling issues, relocation, parental responsibility and all other key decisions affecting a child’s upbringing. Stephanie’s focus is on reducing conflict and helping clients establish consistent, workable arrangements that prioritise and support the child’s long-term wellbeing.
• She also has experience in dealing with issues that arise from domestic abuse and emergency applications such as non-molestation orders, occupation orders, and prohibited steps orders.
• Cohabitation agreements
• Divorce and separation –marriage breakdowns and settlements
• Disputes regarding children – child arrangements, parental disputes, schooling issues, relocation, and all other key decisions affecting a child’s upbringing.
• Financial settlements – dividing assets, pensions, property
• Domestic abuse cases – injunctions, protection orders
• Cohabitation disputes – issues between unmarried couples

Experience

• Represented a father in children act proceedings and secured a child arrangements order reflecting a shared care arrangement.
• Represented an intervenor in children act proceedings with a complex finding of fact hearing.
• Represented a father in children act proceedings to ensure the school holiday arrangements were shared, allowing him to spend meaningful time with his child during the holidays.
• Represented a mother in contested children act proceedings to achieve an order that the child lives with the mother.
• Prepared a cohabitation agreement for a young couple, to protect pre-marital inheritance.
• Secured a favourable settlement for the wife during voluntary financial negotiations.
• Represented a mother in contested children act proceedings where serious allegations of domestic abuse had been made against the father, achieving an order that the children live with the mother and have indirect contact with the father.
• Wealth of experience in drafting financial consent orders following voluntary financial negotiations.
• Advising and assisting clients going through financial remedy proceedings.