Rory Collett

Rory is an associate at Family Law in Partnership, and handles all aspects of private family law, in particular:

• Financial issues arising from divorce, including complex variation and enforcement cases and cases where trusts and sophisticated business structures are involved;
• Parenting issues, particularly those involving multi-jurisdictional child arrangements and where serious allegations of abuse have been raised against parents; and
• Financial intervenor claims by parents to support their children.

Rory has a particular interest in the rights of unmarried couples, surrogacy and has experience with working with clients from a military background.

Rory joined Family Law in Partnership having qualified as a commercial litigator at a City law firm. As a commercial litigator Rory regularly worked on complex, cross jurisdictional business disputes on behalf of private, family-owned, and publicly traded companies. This experience has equipped Rory to deal with all aspects of challenging contentious disputes particularly those involving high profile individuals.

Rory is also involved in promoting access to justice for the neurodivergent community and has formulated resources that recommend adjustments to support neurodiverse clients through family separation and divorce.

Rory’s reported cases include:

• WZ v HZ [2024] WFC 407 (B) – Represented a husband in a case involving the Thwaite Jurisdiction and Possession Orders in the Family Court so that he could: (i) take possession of and remove the wife from the family home after she refused to co-operate with a court ordered sale; (ii) vary downward the amount and term of the wife’s spousal maintenance; (iii) adjust the wife’s housing fund provision in the first financial order to compensate the husband for legal fees resulting from the wife’s obstructive behaviour.

Rory has written on a range of family law topics including parental alienation, crypto currencies in divorce proceedings, and transgender parenthood. He has written an article which was published in the Financial Remedy Journal. The article draws on his success on a recent technical case which utilised the Thwaite Jurisdiction and which secured significant costs for the client.

Rory is a graduate of Exeter University having achieved a BA in Ancient History, International Relations with Theology. He is a member of Resolution.

Rory has a genuine interest in wellbeing within the workplace and has trained as a Mental Health First Aider.