The ‘Writing to Children’ Toolkit in practice
July 3, 2025
A trained collaborative family lawyer, David is passionate about offering expert legal advice and support to clients to empower them to make the best decisions for themselves and their families. With over 20 years of experience in the field of family law, David remains a fierce and committed advocate for his clients, striving always to offer constructive, practical and lasting solutions.
Most recently, the Legal 500 2020 describes David as a highly regarded individual’ who is ‘adept at dealing with complicated financial remedy cases’
An active member of Resolution (formerly the Solicitor’s Family Law Association), David sat on its London Region Committee from 2002 until 2009. In 2003, he was admitted as a New York State Attorney. David has also sat on the Advisory Board for the University of Westminster LLB (Law degree) program.
David’s latest book ‘Barlow’s Cohabitants and the Law, 4th edition’ was published by Bloomsbury Professional on 18 May 2018 and provides a detailed analysis of the latest legislative, procedural and case law developments in this evolving area of law.
Part II of the 2018 edition of this book published on 18 May 2018 deals with the impact of relationship breakdown. Developments in the law relating to domestic abuse are discussed in Chapter 7, together
In Part I (Chapters 1–6) of the book, I examine the law which affects cohabitants/the ‘unmarried family’ when living together as a unit. One significant development since the last edition published in 2001 (discussed at
Pre-nuptial Agreements (pre-nups) have, once again, found themselves under the legal spotlight at the Court of Appeal. In a Judgement, delivered in December 2018, during the case of Brack v Brack, the Court of Appeal
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