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Rhys Taylor specialises in money and property disputes following family relationship breakdown.
In the field of financial remedies, he has a noted and sought after specialism dealing with pensions on divorce. He is very well versed with cohabitant disputes or disputes involving third party rights in financial remedy cases. Rhys also has extensive experience dealing with complex assets, businesses and trust structures.
Rhys is both an IFLA appointed arbitrator and mediator. He also offers Early Neutral Evaluation (private FDRs) for both financial remedy disputes and TOLATA disputes. Rhys sits as a Recorder in the Family Court.
Rhys is a member of the Family Procedure Rule Committee. He is a contributing editor to the Family Court Practice (Red Book). He is also the editor of the Financial Remedies Journal (Class). He is a co-author of the third edition of “Pensions on Divorce: A Practitioner’s Handbook” and a member of the Pension Advisory Group. Rhys lectures regularly on his areas of interest, including at the Judicial College on the subject of pensions on divorce.
Career
Call 1996
Memberships
- Family Procedure Rule Committee
- FLBA
- Pension Advisory Group
- Resolution
- Chancery Bar Association
- Bar Council ADR panel
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