Lizzie Smith > Irwin Mitchell > Bristol, England > Lawyer Profile

Lizzie Smith

lizzie.smith@irwinmitchell.com

Work Department

Family

Position

Senior Associate Solicitor

Career

Lizzie is a Senior Associate in the Family Team at Irwin Mitchell specialising in all areas of private family law. She advises both married and cohabiting individuals on a broad range of issues following the breakdown of a relationship, including financial settlements and arrangements for children.

She has extensive experience advising on complex and high net worth financial cases, including those where there are significant business, pension, trust or farming assets. She also advises on wealth planning, including prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, and financial applications for children, such as disputes in relation to child maintenance. She also deals with disputes involving children, such as where and with who they will live, or which school they will attend. She advises on the enforcement of agreements and orders.

Lizzie deals regularly with cases with an international element, for example, where there is a jurisdictional dispute, assets owned abroad or parties living overseas. She has also made applications in England following a foreign divorce and dealt with international children’s cases, including where one party wishes to relocate overseas. She has experience of getting injunctions, both freezing assets worldwide. She also got non-molestation injunctions to protect clients where there’s been inappropriate behaviour or domestic abuse.

She works with clients locally in the South West, nationally (including London) and also those with an international connection.

Lizzie aims to tailor her approach in a pragmatic and cost-effective way to achieve the best outcome for each individual client. She is a trained Collaborative Lawyer and looks to resolve matters outside of Court where possible. She’s worked with the use of mediation, arbitration, private FDRs and round table meetings. She has extensive experience in dealing with court applications and can take a robust approach to litigation where necessary to get my client the best possible outcome.

She is a Resolution accredited specialist in complex financial remedies and international family law. She is listed as an ‘Associate to Watch’ in the Chambers and Partners legal directory.