Trevona Hettiarachchi is a partner in the divorce and family team at Stewarts. She advises on all aspects of family law and has developed a specialist practice in complex private children law matters, advising on all issues involving children upon parental separation, including contact arrangements, welfare-related disputes, Schedule 1 claims and highly contentious Children Act proceedings, particularly those involving protracted multi-layered proceedings. Trevona is regularly instructed in relation to matters that have international elements, including international and domestic leave to remove cases, cross-jurisdictional matters and child abduction.
Technology-facilitated abuse is increasingly featuring in family law disputes, yet it remains absent from the statutory definition in the Domestic Abuse Act 2021. Trevona Hettiarachchi, partner in the divorce and family team at Stewarts, examines