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Katie Male

Katie Male, Family Associate, Boodle Hatfield

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Katie Male, Family Associate, Boodle Hatfield

Katie advises high net worth individuals in relation to a broad range of family law matters.

She is experienced in acting for husbands and wives in divorce and financial remedy proceedings involving trusts and family businesses, many of which include an international aspect. Katie advises in relation to asset preservation and is experienced in drafting and negotiating pre- and post-nuptial agreements.

Katie also represents clients who are in unmarried relationships, advising on the implications of entering into a cohabiting relationship, as well as acting for parties whose relationship has broken down. She can also speak French.

Areas of Practice

Family & Divorce, Divorce, Children, Financial Claims in Divorce, Pre & Post Nuptial Agreements, Living Together Agreements, Divorce with a Private Business, Trusts & Divorce

Track Record

Acting with James Ferguson and Harriet Errington for the wife in the case of KA v MA (prenuptial agreement: needs) [2018] EWHC 499 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 92 (Apr) concerning the extent to which a court should uphold the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement which the wife sought to disregard. Taking into account all of the circumstances of the case the court largely overturned the pre-nuptial agreement, on the basis that it failed to meet the wife’s reasonable needs, and provided the wife with an award of £2.73 million, well in excess of the provision in the pre-nuptial agreement

Publications

Tolley’s Estate Planning

Memberships

Resolution

Education & Qualification

University of Oxford

Qualified as a solicitor in 2017 and trained with Boodle Hatfield

Acting with James Ferguson and Harriet Errington for the wife in the case of KA v MA (prenuptial agreement: needs) [2018] EWHC 499 (Fam), [2018] All ER (D) 92 (Apr) concerning the extent to which a court should uphold the terms of a pre-nuptial agreement which the wife sought to disregard. Taking into account all of the circumstances of the case the court largely overturned the pre-nuptial agreement, on the basis that it failed to meet the wife’s reasonable needs, and provided the wife with an award of £2.73 million, well in excess of the provision in the pre-nuptial agreement

Tolley’s Estate Planning

Resolution

University of Oxford

Qualified as a solicitor in 2017 and trained with Boodle Hatfield

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