Leeds based Zenith Chambers Barristers specialising in Family (Children, Cohabitation, Trusts, Wills, Matrimonial, Financial settlement), Housing (landlord and tenant, disrepair, drainage), Property, Construction, Crime, Personal Injury

Marisa
Allman

Call: 1998

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Summary of Practice

Marisa Allman specialises in all aspects of family case work

Marisa Allman has considerable experience of both financial settlement (on divorce/separation) and children work.

Marisa Allman has particular expertise in:

Issues of jurisdiction and validity of decree within and outside the EU;

TOLATA;

Schedule 1 of the Children Act; and

Inheritance Act provision;

Private Law Children including child abduction and leave to remove from the jurisdiction; and

The list below describes sorts of cases in which Marisa Allman has been instructed:

Representing numerous self-made businessmen in ancillary relief proceedings;
Instructed on behalf of wives who are divorcing businessmen, farmers or sports personalities, and who know little about their former partner's financial affairs, and are concerned that assets may be hidden, dissipated or removed from the jurisdiction;
Cases where property is owned collectively by family members, or the true position is not reflected by the legal title;
Cases where there are assets out of the jurisdiction, or foreign orders to be considered
Represented many people who do not have the mental capacity to instruct solicitors themselves, either temporarily or permanently, and their former partners in relation to both children and financial matters;
Represented people whose children have been removed from the jurisdiction, or who fear their children may be removed from the jurisdiction, or who would like to take their children abroad for a holiday and whose ex-partner fears they may not return them.

Marisa Allman has been

Marisa also has experience as a locum barrister working for the London Borough of Wandsworth Social Services Legal Department.

Marisa Allman joined Zenith Chambers in January 2010.

Languages

French (formerly employed in the Price Waterhouse juridique et fiscal tax department, Paris)

Notable Cases

A v A [2008] EWHC 3081 (Fam) : unreported : A determination of whether a marriage took place in Pakistan

O & M (Children) : 30th August 2006 : unreported : an appeal of a finding of fact of non accidental injury made in care proceedings;

Leeds Teaching Hospital NHS Trust v A [2003] 1 FLR 1091 : Research for Eleanor Hamilton QC

Re H (A Child) 2002 EWCA Civ 190 : Change of forename

Seminars

Marisa Allman is a speaker at a number of seminars each year, both in house and in 'open' sessions.