About Theresa Wright.
Approach.
I work with families during some of their toughest, and equally some of their most freeing, times. With that in mind, I always aim to advise and act for my clients with an empathetic and professional approach. However, this doesn’t mean that I will not fight tooth and nail in their matters.
It’s incredibly important to me that I listen carefully to what each client wants to achieve as everyone’s needs and personal circumstances are so different. Providing digestible, easy-to-understand information is vital to enable my clients to feel empowered to make the right decisions throughout their cases.
Although I have experience in multiple areas, my passion is working in family law, with a focus on divorce, financial settlements, and child arrangements. Helping clients through these pivotal and important moments to get them a fair result is what drives me.
Training and experience.
Theresa was educated in law at Buckinghamshire New University, where she later went on to achieve a distinction for her master’s in law.
After completing her LPC at the University of Law, Guildford, Theresa completed her training contract in Dorking, specialising predominantly in family law, wills, probate, and personal injury. She was admitted as a solicitor in 2021 and has rapidly progressed to a leadership role in the Family Law department, to the extent that the firm is now ranked first for family law in both Brighton and Hove, and London’s West End.
Theresa is a Resolution member and also of a member of the East Sussex YRES committee. She is regularly asked to provide legal insight on current affairs, most recently in an article for the Telegraph surrounding Justin Trudeau’s high-profile divorce case.
Theresa’s legal areas.
Family
Divorce
Financial Settlements
Child Law
Cohabitation
Notable cases.
2021
Theresa worked on a multi-million pound international divorce case involving multi-jurisdictional settlements, complex property and business affairs, and cross-generational family interests.
She was pivotal in managing a separate, but highly sensitive case involving cross-jurisdictional international child arrangements as part of a same-sex dissolution.
2022
Theresa’s experience in child law extended to restorative rights in compelling the reinstatement of contact for a child with estranged family members, and conversely the ordered removal of contact over safety concerns.
With regard to financial settlements, she successfully fended off an opposing party’s claim to inheritance rising from a long marriage, alongside ringfencing her client’s post-separation pensions, despite their initial consideration as marital assets.
2023
Recently, Theresa led an international team to pull into question split assets across multiple countries and agreed on an equitable settlement.
After a client was wrongly accused of abuse, Theresa was able to overturn a non-molestation order made against her client, while gaining shared custody of their child and securing 50% of the equity in the marital home, despite a short marriage.
Currently, Theresa is acting as an expert witness in a complex case calling into question the validity and enforceability of a pre-nuptial agreement where the divorce was filed in the United States.
Areas of expertise.
- Financial Settlements
- Civil partnerships
- Child Arrangements
- Cohabitation
- Pre- and Post-nuptial Agreements
- Separation Agreements
- International Divorce
- Divorce
Accolades.
Reviews of Theresa.
