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Natalie Matthews Bunting
Family Director (FILEx Litigator)
Family
Natalie advises on complex matters including a variation of maintenance orders and persons who need to intervene in proceedings to protect their financial investment.
She also advises on and prepares pre and post-nuptial agreements for couples wishing to protect their personal wealth, as well as helping unmarried couples with cohabitation agreements.
Natalie deals with applications under schedule 1 Children Act 1989 financial remedy for the benefit of a child, disputes in relation to arrangements for children, including emergency prohibited steps, specific issues regarding schooling and paternity, who a child will live with and the time that they will spend with the other parent.
Natalie works primarily in our Brighton office but also collaborates closely with colleagues in our other locations.
Work highlights
Financial remedy
Instructed by a husband who had business investments which were due to take off and become lucrative. The wife lived in the family home, and so delayed proceedings to her advantage. An agreement was reached with capitalised maintenance in a sum less than the husband had previously proposed.
Post-nuptial agreement
Post-nuptial agreement instruction by parties in their 70s marrying. Both with circa £3m assets each. My client moved into the wife’s home, renting his property out, or intending to place it into trust for his children.
Children
Fourth time instruction from mother in response to father’s application for enforcement of CAO. Allegations of physical abuse of child, coercive and controlling behaviour and financial abuse. Composite fact find and final hearing. Outcome: findings of coercive control, no direct contact and costs of £12,500 ordered.
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DMH Stallard's Family team has earned national recognition with two nominations at the Resolution Awards 2026.
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