Yasmin Khan-Gunns

Experience

• I am a solicitor in BLM’s family law team based in London.
• I practice all aspects of private family law, including divorce and the division of financial assets, applications to enforce a court order, cohabitation disputes regarding property, pre and post nuptial agreements, cohabitation and separation agreements, all disputes relating to children including with whom a child is to live and spend time with.
• My focus to date has been on matrimonial and non-matrimonial finances and applications to permanently relocate abroad with a child or children.
• My caseload often involves an international element, including clients or their spouses living abroad and assets such as property, businesses or bank accounts in multiple jurisdictions.

Significant reported cases

• Assisted in the reported international child abduction case of T (A Child: Hague Convention Proceedings) [2016] EWHC 3554 (Fam) https://www.familylawweek.co.uk/site.aspx?i=ed177093.
• Assisted in successfully litigating and ultimately settling a disposition of land matter in North Wales, with a 100% of costs awarded.
• Assisted in successfully representing an applicant in a Maintenance Pending Suit application, with a 100% of costs awarded.
• Assisted in successfully representing an applicant mother in an applicant to permanently remove her two children from the jurisdiction of England and Wales to New Zealand and on a separate case to Canada. 
• Assisted in successfully representing a claimant in enforcing a Trust of Land court order made in 2016 concerning orders made in 1994, with over £45,000 costs awarded.

Membership/appointments

• I am a member of Resolution