Paul Wild
Partner, Head of Family
Paul is an experienced family lawyer who, for over 20 years, has dealt with a range of diverse family law cases, from child law, parental alienation, drafting pre-nuptial agreements, through to divorce and separation. He has also advised on property disputes between cohabiting couples.
During his career, Paul has worked as a divorce and family lawyer in Surrey, Hampshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Cambridgeshire. He is a long-term member of Resolution and trained in both Collaborative Law and as a Family Mediator.
Being an experienced divorce lawyer, Paul is mindful of the complex and diverse reasons for family breakdown and the impact that this can have on the parties involved, their children and wider family. He provides a highly personalised, pragmatic and sensitive approach using his experience to realistically advise clients on their particular and individual circumstances – the main aim is to resolve matters, whether that is between the parties themselves, through mediation, or within the collaborative law framework, at private Hearings, or in Court.
Paul has a BA Hons degree, CPE and LPC. He is a trained and qualified Collaborative Lawyer and is a member and Treasurer of Thames Valley Collaborative Pod. Paul is also an experienced Family Mediator and is a member and Treasurer of Reading Family Mediation as well.
Away from being a family lawyer, Paul writes and records music for theatre as well as his own songs/soundtracks. He has had a number of pieces performed in theatre productions. Paul follows Wolverhampton Wanderers FC.
Case Studies
We acted for a client at the end of a very long marriage, in which the parties had adult, independent children and had lived separate lives for many years, despite both remaining in the family home. They jointly owned both their UK property and a property abroad, of lower value.
We assisted our client in preparing disclosure of a significant volume of financial information and in negotiations with his former spouse. The parties settled their finances by consent at a hearing held privately, away from court, with a barrister acting as the judge for the purposes of assisting the parties to negotiate a settlement.
The outcome reached enabled one party to retain the family home and the other to retain the overseas property, together with sufficient funds to buy a small property in the UK. This required both of the parties to compromise and make new financial arrangements but achieved both parties’ key aims and an outcome they were both satisfied with.
We acted for a client who had been divorced for a few years. Arrangements for the family’s children had been agreed between her and her former husband informally on their separation and both parties had been abiding by the agreement. However, the former spouse was requesting a significant change to the contact arrangements, which our client did not agree with on the basis that she did not believe it was in the best interests of their children and was against their expressed wishes.
We initially sought to reach agreement with our client’s former spouse but this did not prove possible and we made a court application, which referred to our client’s concerns about her ex partner’s behaviour and sought to have the children’s wishes and feelings heard and taken into account.
The court proceedings, once up and running, quickly reached a conclusion when the parties agreed a schedule for contact that was child-focussed and to both parent’s satisfaction.
” I just wanted to write a huge thank you for all your help and support during my recent divorce proceedings There were times when it seemed things would never get resolved but thankfully with your guidance everything went relatively smoothly in the end.” “Considering the mess I was in when I first met you, I’ve managed to stay intact and that’s mostly down to your advice keeping me on the straight and narrow. For that I will always be grateful.”
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