This is the third our "Building Your Team" series and we're joined by Alison Porter of Pennywise Consultants. Pennywise Consultants are financial lifestyle analysts who specialise in creating and challenging lifestyle and household budgets. Their service is used to help clients figure out how much they will need to finance their personal life, children, pets and property and are frequently used during financial remedy proceedings or as part of financial planning.

For the first episode of 2022 we're doing things a little differently.  Today's guest is Georgina Sheeran, service manager at the invaluable UK legal charity Support Through Court.  We'll be discussing with Georgina the work of Support Through Court in supporting people who have to represent themselves in court. Their aim is to "reduce the disadvantage of people facing the civil and family justice system without a lawyer and enabling them to access justice".

For the second episode is our 'Building Your Team' series we're joined by Tom Nash aka Mr Divorce Coach, an internationally certified and specialist divorce, separation and family coach.  We'll be looking at divorce coaching, what it is, how it works and how it can help your clients.

We are pleased to welcome back Max Turnell of 1 Kings Bench Walk for the second episode in our series looking at Trusts in family matters.  Max will be looking prevention and avoidance of disposition of assets and Section 37 of the MCA.

In this episode Melanie is joined by Tamsin Caine, Chartered Financial Planner at Smart Divorce, the specialist financial advice group for people facing divorce.

Today Melanie is joined by Remyhs Baker, a family law solicitor at Pinney Talfourd in Brentwood.  Remyhs specialises in all aspects of separation including financial provision and private children matters. She has had extensive training in domestic abuse work, including obtaining injunctions. Together they discuss the ins and outs of Occupation Orders and how to make a successful application.

In this episode Melanie is joined by our very first guest on Family Law & Lattes, Roxane Reiser. Roxane is a family law barrister at 1 Hare Court in London. Today Melanie and Roxane will be giving us a crash course in Swiss family law and pointing out what us English lawyers need to know about. 

Melanie is joined by Francoise Bonnaillie-Valmorin of FBV Family Law for a briefing on all things french family law. Francoise is both a french avocat and an english solicitor specialising in advising clients on cross border family law.

Together they'll be discussing the latest updates in french family law and what practicalities english family law practitioners need to consider when dealing in anglo-french matters.

Jeetesh Patel of Laurus Law returns for a second episode to discuss another of his areas of expertise - International Adoption.  Together Melanie and Jeetesh consider what makes international adoption different, what the process is and what the parents wanting to bring their adopted children back to England need to be aware of.