Family law with the following principal areas of practice:
Financial Remedies
Nuptial Agreements
Financial applications for children under the Children Act 1989
Applications under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996
Private and Public law Children Act matters
Child support appeals
Family violence
Accreditations
“Maria-Amália practises exclusively in family law with an emphasis on matrimonial and schedule 1 financial claims, together with complex private and public law children cases”
Professional memberships
Family Law Bar Association
Family Mediators Association
Bar Pro Bono Unit
Inner Temple
Selected 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)
Publications
Contributor to Rights of Women publication
“From A to Z: A Woman’s Guide to the Law” [2006]
Education
Walthamstow Hall, Sevenoaks
University College, London BA (Hons) Geography
City University Postgraduate Diploma in Law MA in Law
Inns of Court School of Law Bar Vocational Course
Other information
Maria-Amália is married with three young children, and lives in London