Caroline Fell

Caroline has over 20 years experience in advising clients on family issues.  Her work focuses in particular on the following:

• Financial matters on divorce and separation, often where complex issues are involved to include family businesses, property portfolios and cases involving significant pension provision (public sector pensions and private pensions, whether defined benefit or defined contribution).
• Separation and divorce involving international issues. This includes advice on forum ie whether proceedings for divorce should be issued in England and Wales, or whether they should be issued in another jurisdiction.  She is able to advise where clients are based in England but have assets overseas, or where  clients are based abroad. 
• Divorces for those in later life, taking into account retirement planning within the divorce context (sometimes know as ‘silver divorces’.
• Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, enabling parties to achieve autonomy and certainty as far as possible when considering marriage.
• Mediation, whether in relation to financial matters and/or children issues.  Caroline is qualified as a child inclusive mediator and is able to speak with children as part of the mediation process.

Caroline trained at Manches Solicitors (now Penningtons Manches Cooper LLP), qualifying in 2002 and joining Stone King in 2005, becoming Partner in 2018.

Caroline is vice-chair of Bath Resolution and works as a trustee for various local charitable organisations.

Caroline has a strong academic background, having been awarded the Colin Beattie prize for the highest performance in her Post-Graduate Diploma in law, and having achieved Distinction on both this and the LPC