Danielle Peters

Background

About Danielle Peters

I have the privilege of heading the well known and highly regarded family law team at Crane and Staples Solicitors. Our team provide the full range of family law services, including private and public funded matters. We are one of the few family and child law solicitors in Hertfordshire to cater to both private and public law clients. I specialise in the financial aspects of relationship breakdown, acting for both married and unmarried separating couples. I have been practising as a specialist family lawyer for over twenty five years and was admitted to the role as a solicitor in I advise and represent clients in divorce proceedings and in particular in respect of the financial arrangements to be made on separation. My practice includes advice and representation for unmarried couples and parents, on the breakdown of civil partnerships and in relation to property claims under the Trusts of Land and Appointment of Trustees Act 1996. I also specialise in complex private child law cases, where I advise and represent clients in court in respect of arrangements for children and child relocation. When court proceedings and a firmer approach is essential, I am an unrelenting and robust court advocate. I have many years of experience representing clients (including children) in complex and contested matters in court before District and Circuit Judges. I am a Legal 500 Recommended Lawyer and Chambers & Partners Ranked Individual. I sit on the Hertfordshire Family Justice Board as chair of training and head HFJB’s Private Family Law Working Group.