A highly regarded team

The Goodman Ray Separation and Divorce Team is led by Trudi Featherstone who is an accredited Resolution member and collaborative lawyer. The Team has extensive experience in the area of separation and divorce, is highly regarded within the legal profession and is listed in Chambers 500.

Trudi Featherstone

Trudi Featherstone is a partner at Goodman Ray and heads the Divorce and Separation Team. She specialises in complex financial disputes. Trudi is a collaborative lawyer, a Resolution accredited specialist and a member of the Law Society Advanced Panel. Trudi has extensive experience in the matrimonial and cohabitation litigation field and is viewed as a formidable litigator.

Peggy Ray

Senior partner and co-founder of Goodman Ray, Peggy Ray is one of the most highly regarded solicitors in the Family Law field in the UK. She specialises in very complex children disputes. She is one of the few Family Law solicitors to sit as a Recorder.

Ann Thompson

Ann Thompson has extensive experience in all fields of Family Law and has a varied caseload, including international abduction work and complex financial disputes. She is a qualified collaborative lawyer, an accredited Resolution specialist and a member of the Law Society Children Panel.

Natalie Friday

her areas of work include a broad range of ancillary relief cases and matters concerning financial provision for children and all aspects of financial provision arising out of the breakdown of marriage or of cohabitation.

Kevin Skinner

Kevin has a keen interest in Family Law cases that have an international element and in children issues where there are concurrent criminal proceedings.

Laura Dalgliesh

Laura's practice includes all aspects of divorce and separation, financial provision following divorce including maintenance pending suit, provision for children and cohabitation disputes including "TLATA" applications. Laura regularly advises client's in relation to Children Act 1989 applications and is a member of our domestic violence team.

Priya Palanivel

Priya is a specialist in Divorce and Separation matters, often with an International element. Priya also acts for clients in cohabitation disputes and has knowledge of pre-nuptial agreements and separation agreements as well as experience in Civil Partnership Dissolutions.