Claire Blakemore
Claire is a partner in the family team at Withers, bringing strong technical expertise and sound judgement to a wide range of family law matters. She works with domestic and international clients, handling complex financial claims, children issues, pre and postnuptial agreements, and cohabitant disputes, with extensive experience in cases involving trusts. Claire’s clients include professionals, families with inherited wealth, and those in the public eye. She is highly experienced in difficult litigation and offers dispute resolution as a collaborative lawyer and mediator and a founder of the award winning Uncouple.
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50 Years on from Martin v Martin 1976 – Are Add-backs Fit for Purpose?
[2026] 2 FRJ 94. Add-backs were a useful mechanism to prevent one party’s unilateral dissipation of assets which unfairly prejudiced the non-dissipating spouse’s share. But something has gone wrong when the outcomes deviate too far from what the average person considers fair.
Maybe Compensation Isn’t What You Think
[2026] 2 FRJ 118. The compensation principle set out in Miller; McFarlane is the logical next step in ending discrimination between different but equal contributions. Compensation is a vehicle to alleviate post-divorce disparity, to give both spouses an equal start on the road to independent living.
Mind the Gap: A Chancery Barrister’s Preliminary Thoughts on the Cohabitation Reform Consultation
The Ministry of Justice has released its long-anticipated consultation paper on family law and cohabitation reform. A practitioner gives her immediate reaction to the proposed reforms.