Richard Buswell

Succession issues can be very distressing for people. Richard has provided compassionate and technically sound legal and strategic advice to clients involved in these often difficult cases.

Related work

• Disputing DNA testing
• Disputes over the body of the deceased
• Variation of wills
• Preserving estate assets.

Richard accepts instructions in relation to unmarried partner property disputes, commercial co-ownership, asset protection, inheritance planning disputes and asset recovery.

This covers:

• Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996 claims
• Wills and probate related litigation
• Fraudulent activates of trustees and commercial advisers.

Richard specialises in solicitors’ negligence cases involving “family” money cases (particularly, matrimonial finance, inheritance and private client work).

Being as skilled in the application of the procedural requirements of the FPR and the CPR and being familiar with the practice requirements across the Divisions, he is sought after for this specialist work. His work involves substantive law matters, procedural failings and issues of professional standards.

Richard’s family work is a cornerstone of his practice. He has advised and represented the exceptionally wealthy – including bankers, politicians, celebrity wives, and entrepreneurs. However, the more difficult cases that he undertakes can often be those where the liabilities threaten the stability of life after divorce or partnership dissolution, whether he can be strategically adept.

Family – Finances after relationship breakdown but also when all is well

Richard’s expertise in relation to family breakdown and finance includes:

• Matrimonial finance
• Civil partnership
• Pre-nuptial & post-marriage/civil partnership agreements
• Cohabitation and property disputes
• Conflicting law cases – particular where family money disputes overlap with third party claims and Chancery disputes such as trusts, inheritance, wills, insolvency, partnership, companies and professional negligence.

Advising parents before a child’s marriage and in relation to inheritance planning is a positive advisory role.

Family – Children

It can often help to have a barrister acting for a client in children matters when also dealing with financial disputes, particularly where they are difficult or acrimonious.

• Residence and contact issues
• Removal from the jurisdiction
• Children’s property rights issues
• Schedule 1 Children Act 1989 claims.