Sarah Whitelegge > Myerson Solicitors LLP > Altrincham, England > Lawyer Profile
Myerson Solicitors LLP Offices
GROSVENOR HOUSE
20 BARRINGTON ROAD
ALTRINCHAM
WA14 1HB
England
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Sarah Whitelegge
Work Department
Family Law
Position
Senior Associate
Career
Sarah advises on a wide range of family matters including divorce, dissolution of civil partnerships, financial settlements, separation, co-habitation, pre and post nuptial agreements, disputes regarding children and domestic violence.
She is particularly experienced in matters concerning complex children matters and has experience of dealing with applications for child arrangement orders, prohibited steps orders, specific issue orders, and special guardianship orders.
She has significant advocacy experience, having regularly appeared in the Family Courts representing clients in relation to private law children matters, financial order proceedings and domestic violence matters.
Memberships
Resolution.
Education
Sarah attended Altrincham Grammar School for Girls and studied history at Leeds University where she gained a 2.1(Hons) degree. She went on to complete the Graduate Diploma in Law and LPC at Manchester Metropolitan University attaining a commendation for the LPC.
Lawyer Rankings
North West > Private client > Family
A firm with roots dating back to 1982, Cheshire-based Myerson Solicitors LLP advises on a broad range of family issues. Working closely with the agricultural and contentious trusts and probate team, the department is able to provide a holistic service to clients, regularly working with rural families with farmland or livestock. Fielding a bench consisting of both experienced litigators and mediators, the practice is well versed in private FDRs as well as complex financial remedy proceedings in the Manchester Family Court, among others. Team head Jane Tenquist handles high-net worth matrimonial finance matters, and is well accustomed to extensive business, trusts and foreign assets; she is also well regarded as an expert in nuptial agreements. Nichola Bright adds valuable capabilities in fertility and surrogacy law, including Parental Orders, and routinely works alongside Sarah Whitelegge who shows adeptness representing clients in children cases involving abuse and habitual residence disputes. Rachel Forster‘s commercial background is paramount to cases involving business assets held in complex corporate structures.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Private client > Agriculture and estates
- Dispute resolution > Commercial litigation: elsewhere in the North West
- Real estate > Commercial property: elsewhere in the North West
- Private client > Contentious trusts and probate
- Corporate and commercial > Corporate and commercial: elsewhere in the North West
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery
Firm Rankings
- Employment > Employment
- Private client > Family
- Private client > Personal tax, trusts and probate
- Real estate > Construction
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > IT and telecoms
- Insurance > Professional negligence
- Real estate > Property litigation
- TMT (technology, media and telecoms) > Intellectual property
- Finance > Insolvency and corporate recovery