Alison Green

Alison Green has now retired from Mackrell LLP. For all family and relationship enquiries, please get in touch with Adeeba Naseem, Head of Family & Relationship Team, on 0203 975 1081 or at adeeba.naseem@mackrell.com.

About

Alison led our Family and Relationship team for more than 25 years, assisting clients with a wide range of matters and supporting the development of our solicitors.

Her expertise covered matrimonial work, including divorce and the associated financial and children’s issues, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, co-habitation disputes, civil partnership agreements and the breakdown of civil partnerships.

Examples of the types of cases she worked on, as part of our team, include:

• Questions of the validity of marriage
• Injunctions to prevent domestic violence
• Removal of children from a jurisdiction
• Relocation of children in the UK and internationally
• Division of assets on divorce for high net worth individuals
• Preparation of, and advising on, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, for same-sex and heterosexual couples
• Advising on property disputes between unmarried partners
• Advising either parents or grandparents of their rights under the Children Act 1989
• Preparation of, and advising on, cohabitation agreements
• Advising those living overseas on their ability to use English courts for matrimonial and child cases

Her clients in the UK and overseas have included high net worth individuals, foreign nationals, Premier League footballers and members of royal families – many of whom still rely upon our services today.

This close connection to high net worth individuals saw her ranked in the prestigious Spear’s 500 guide, year after year.

Much of her work was conducted in countries where the primary or only accepted faith is Islam and so Alison became an expert in Sharia law and its impacts on matrimonial matters. This expertise was passed on to our wider team of family law experts.

The Family and Relationship Team have won a number of awards, and Alison was shortlisted for the Women in Law award at the British Legal Awards and International Lawyer of the Year at the Family Law Awards.

Professional qualifications and memberships

• Solicitor, England and Wales
• Member of Resolution

Publications

• The Times – Family lawyers find no fault with divorce reform
• Lexology – Mackrell wins highly contested multi-jurisdiction divorce dispute
• Ealing Times – Civil partnership ruling affecting Ealing couple called a ‘legislative anomaly’ by leading solicitor

Recent work

• Acted for the husband on his divorce and financial settlement from his wife, where the husband facilitated the purchase of a new mortgage-free home for the wife but she requested a greater share of assets.
• Acted in children matters, representing a wife following the breakdown of the marriage, where the husband sought 50/50 custody.
• Acted on financial matters relating to a divorce where the other party acted in person on the divorce itself.
• Settled complex financial settlements via mediation and arbitration.
• Assisted a Slovakian national with a financial application made by his wife following a divorce in England.
• Acted for a husband in Dubai negotiating a financial settlement after his wife launched divorce proceedings in England.
• Acted for footballers in relation to Schedule 1 Children Act cases, where unmarried parents needed to secure a home and other capital financial support for a child.
• Handled top-up applications for child maintenance where, normally the father, earned more than the cap of £156,000 p.a.
• Handled the normal divorce and financial remedy cases for sportsmen and women.
• Advised on property disputes between unmarried parties where one had paid for a property and moved their partner in, and the relationship then broke down with the partner claiming a share in the property.

Achievements