Practice Profile
Marisa Allman has practised exclusively in family law since 1998, specialising in all aspects of the financial consequences of family breakdown and private law disputes about children. Her practice has a particular emphasis on international cases or cases concerning modern family structures.
Testimonials
Work Undertaken
- Matrimonial / civil partnership finance
- Financial provision for children
- Trusts of Land applications
- Private Law children
- International children cases
- Child Abduction
- Same sex families
- Surrogacy
- Fertility law
Appointments & Memberships
- Family Law Bar Association
- Resolution (associate member)
- Family Mediators Association
Notable Cases
MG, JG v JF and JFG [2015]
Fam Law 514 Successful application for litigation funding of private law case
X v Y & St Bartholemew’s Hospital CRM & CAFCASS Legal [2015]
EWFC 13. Advocate to the court in fertility law case
Re E & F (Assisted Reproduction: Parent) [2013]
EWHC 1418 Successful application for a declaration that second female was not a parent.
Zuk v Zuk [2012]
EWCA Civ 1871 Successful appeal of committal to prison for non payment of lump sum
In the matter of B (a child) [2012]
EWCA Civ 858 Successful appeal against a transfer of residence to a grandmother.
Re S (a child) [2012]
EWCA Civ 617
SH v MM and RM [2011]
EWHC 3314 concerning whether a removal from the jurisdiction had been unlawful where legal parentage is in issue.
Re H (Contact: adverse findings of fact) [2011]
EWCA Civ 585
T v B [2010]
EWHC 1444: Case determining that a natural parent who is not a legal parent in a same sex relationship is not liable to make financial provision under Sch. 1 of the Children Act.
Re H (a child) [2002]
EWCA Civ 190: Clarified the law regarding changing the forename of a child.
RE G (A CHILD) [2018] EWCA Civ 305
A v B [2018] EWHC 328
RE H (A CHILD) (SURROGACY BREAKDOWN) [2017] EWCA Civ 1798
RE Z (A CHILD) sub nom (1) A (2) B v (1) X (2) Z (A CHILD BY HIS GUARDIAN) [2017] EWCA Civ 228
RE THE HUMAN FERTILISATION & EMBRYOLOGY ACT 2008 (CASE I) [2016] EWHC 791