Sarah Watts

Sarah is a Senior Chartered Legal Executive and has practiced exclusively in the field of Family Law for all her career. She has been qualified more than 15 years. Sarah joins Couchman Hanson from a firm in Godalming and has many links to the local area.

Her caseload deals with all aspects of divorce and financial matters and includes cases with limited assets to high-net-worth cases. She has experience with pensions and how best to split these, particularly public sector pensions and Armed Forces Schemes, having worked in military towns for long periods. Sarah also deals with couples who are not married and are separating and pre-nuptial and cohabitation agreements.

Sarah also has a keen interest in children work and helping couples resolve disputes about when each party should see their children and where those children should live. She has considerable experience in dealing with complex children cases, including removal from jurisdiction and change of residence cases and cases with complicating factors, including domestic abuse allegations.

Sarah is also able to give advice and represent couples in relation to non-molestation and occupation orders and has worked with domestic abuse charities.

Sarah works in a constructive and sympathetic manner to achieve a positive outcome for clients wherever possible and is a member of Resolution. She is a strong advocate of out of court resolution. However, if Court proceedings are needed, she undertakes much of her own advocacy in local Courts in Hampshire, Surrey and Berkshire believing that such continuity for clients can be important and reassuring.