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Olivia Stiles
Olivia is a Senior Associate in the Family and Divorce team undertaking the full range of private family law work, including complex financial cases, pre and post-nuptial agreements and all aspects of private law children matters, both domestic and international. Olivia also specialises in surrogacy, fertility law, alternative routes to parenthood and parentage issues. Much of her work has an international element and involves HNW individuals and City professionals, with a specialism in jurisdiction and cross border disputes involving modern family structures.
Her practice includes the following:
- Complex financial disputes often involving business assets, third party resources, trusts and assets located outside of the jurisdiction;
- Drafting of pre-nuptial and post-nuptial agreements as well as litigation arising from contested nuptial agreements on a divorce;
- Advising on and preparing cohabitation agreements;
- Advising unmarried parents in respect of their financial claims against one another (known as Schedule 1 claims);
- Consented and contested parental order applications in surrogacy matters, both domestic and international;
- Cases involving modern family structures, including donor conception, co-parenting, assisted reproduction and LGBTQ families;
- All aspects of private law children matters, including complex jurisdiction disputes, domestic and international relocation and parental alienation.
Olivia is recognised in Legal 500 as having an “encyclopaedic knowledge of her cases” and having the details of long-running and complex cases at her fingertips. Legal 500 in 2023 states that “Olivia Stiles has superb client care and is really bright”. She has also been recognised as an Associate ‘on the radar’ by Chambers & Partners 2022. Olivia is listed in the Pro Bono Recognition List 2025.
Olivia focuses on straightforward and practical advice for clients while maintaining a close eye on the long-term strategy and overall outcome of the case. She has good instincts and excellent judgment; her clients are at the very centre of her every move on a case.
Olivia sat on a sub-group of a JUSTICE Committee which investigated potential reforms to the family justice system in private law children matters. The final report Improving Access to Justice for Separating Families was published in 2022. This important work has informed and influenced the Ministry of Justice intentions for private law family reform (as reported in January 2024).
Olivia has spoken as a specialist panel member at seminars on alternative routes to parenthood and provided the family law case law update for 2021 on Lexis Nexis.
Olivia completed her training contract at Kingsley Napley in 2015, qualifying into the Family team and was promoted to Senior Associate in 2021.
Recent cases
R v T [2022] EWHC 3362 (Fam) Olivia was part of the Kingsley Napley and 4PB team advising the respondent mother in a complex international parentage and jurisdiction dispute involving a same sex couple and assisted reproduction spanning England, the UAE and the US.
Professional societies and memberships
- Olivia is a member of Resolution
- The Law Society
- The London Young Lawyers Group
publications & press
- 1 expert, 2 experts, 3 experts, more? Recent cases on SJEs and shadow experts - ThoughtLeaders4 HNW Divorce Magazine, June 2025
- Good Divorce Week 2020 and the Family Solutions Group Report: Key themes for a ‘good’ divorce or separation, December 2020
- Improving Access to Justice for Separating Families, Justice, October 2022
- Divorcing a Lawyer - Thought Leaders 4 | HNW Divorce, 20 April 2023
- Will 2021 see a surge in demand for family legal services? - Today's Family Lawyer, 3 December 2020
- Remedial order permitting single applicants to apply for parental orders now in force, LexisNexis Family Law, 21 January 2019
What clients and directories say
Olivia Stiles has superb client care and is really bright."
Legal 500 UK 2023
I have never failed to be impressed by Olivia’s encyclopedic knowledge of her cases, even when they are very complex or have been going on for years. She knows every detail without needing to check, which clients love.”
Legal 500 UK 2022
Exceptionally able and one to watch for the future."
Legal 500 UK 2023
