Sarah Dodds

Sarah is a Senior Associate in Kingsley Napley’s family and divorce team, where she specialises in complex divorce and financial work as well as private children cases.
 

Her practice includes all aspects of private family work and the majority of her clients have international connections. Sarah specialises in divorce and matrimonial finance disputes, including in particular those which contain complex pension issues. She also regularly deals with high conflict cases relating to children’s arrangements and financial provision for children, including international and domestic relocations and child abduction. Sarah has a particular interest in adoption and surrogacy matters and regularly advises parents who wish to apply for parental orders following the birth of their child.

Sarah trained at Bindmans LLP and qualified in 2015. Prior to her training contract, she worked as a paralegal in the commercial litigation team at a large regional firm. Sarah read law at the University of Sheffield and completed her LPC at the University of Law in Bloomsbury, obtaining a distinction.

Sarah was recognised in the Spear's Family Law Index 2021 as a "Rising Star"

Recent cases

• Z (A Child) (Egyptian fostering UK adoption) [2016] EWHC 2963 (Fam) – adoption of an Egyptian child in the UK

Publications and press

• Family Law Journal, July 2021: "Rings, Rolexes and Renoirs – The treatment of gifts, engagement rings, and heirlooms when a relationship comes to an end" by Sarah Dodds and Liam Hurren
• Family Law Journal, March 2020: "Stemming the tide?" - Sarah Dodds discusses Potanin v Potanina [2019] and whether financial orders after an overseas divorce are now more restricted, or simply continue to be a remedy only available in limited circumstances.
• The American Magazine, June 2018 - "International families and the price of relocation without consent"

Professional societies and memberships

• Resolution