Maria-Amália Walker
Call 2003
Telephone 020 7831 0222
Email [email protected]
Maria-Amália Walker
Call 2003
Telephone 020 7831 0222
Email [email protected]
Maria-Amália is an experienced family practitioner with a busy practice covering all areas of family law work with a particular focus on the following principal areas of practice:
- Financial provision on divorce
- Advising on and drafting nuptial agreements
- Claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
- Financial claims under Schedule 1 of the Children Act 1989 (including where these combine with cohabitant claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996)
- Private law Children Act matters, including applications for leave to remove from the jurisdiction
- Child support appeals
- Family violence
Family Law
The majority of Maria-Amália’s work involves representation and resolution of financial and children disputes in Court proceedings. Maria-Amália enjoys long established and effective professional relationships with a pool of highly reputed solicitors, built on a shared commitment to client welfare, empathy and delivery of clear and realistic advice.
Maria-Amália brings experience and pragmatism to her practice. Maria-Amália uses her calm manner and creative thinking to save her clients the emotional and financial expense of hard-fought litigation wherever possible, however when not possible Maria-Amália matches strong advocacy with clear advice as to the potential outcomes and risks for her clients in the discretionary field of family law.
Reported cases
- CTL (Children: Fact finding: Protection from Sexual Harm), Re Family Division, 01 March 2013 [2013] EWHC 2133 (Fam)
- Traversa v Freddi Court of Appeal (Civil Division), 14 February 2011 [2011] EWCA Civ 81; [2011] Fam. Law 464
- Traversa v Freddi [2010] EWCA Civ 640 (Part III MFPA 1984)
- K v K & Ors [2008] EWHC 1561 (Fam)
